Thanks to the movie, “American Underdog” the story of Kurt Warner is becoming familiar to a new generation of NFL fans who may know Warner solely as a talented football analyst. Warner aspired, like so many kids, to become an NFL quarter-back, but after playing at Northern Iowa from 1990 to 1993, he was not drafted by any professional team. He got a tryout with the Green Bay Packers, but he was released before the 1994 season began. 

 

Unlike professional baseball, where there are minor leagues for young players to develop their talents, most football players nowadays only have that one shot to make the pros. However, during the late ‘90s something called Arena Football was thriving. It was a claustrophobic sport, played indoors by six player teams on fields barely fifty yards long. It was m…