{"id":2042,"date":"1900-01-30T14:47:01","date_gmt":"1900-01-30T20:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauleide.com\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2024-01-27T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:45:50","slug":"beef-featured-in-associated-press-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/beef-featured-in-associated-press-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Beef Featured In Associated Press Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2043 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/omaha-beef-ap-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"omaha-beef-ap\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2043 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/omaha-beef-ap-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"omaha-beef-ap\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/noscript>Chuck Wright was hooked the first time he tried professional indoor football. His pay for that game: a $10 bill and a six-pack of Bud Light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I never did anything else,\u201d he said, \u201cI could always say I got paid to play. It\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was 10 years ago, and the 34-year-old is still going strong, now with the Omaha Beef. It\u2019s an eclectic mix of dreamers hoping to get noticed by a team in the Arena Football League, CFL or even the NFL, and realists like Wright who know they\u2019re going nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Each Beef player signs a contract promising $75 a game, and each will tell you it\u2019s not really about the money.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Robertson and Davon Bridges are among the dreamers. They drove here together from the East Coast, took up residence at a motel and spend their days painting and cleaning apartments, working out and hanging out.<\/p>\n<p>They live for the two nights a week the Beef practice and the Friday or Saturday nights they play games. For them, the games are an opportunity to put their skills on film and send it to talent evaluators in more prestigious leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1999, the Omaha-based team is the oldest indoor football team in the nation. The Beef found the spotlight a couple of years ago when owner Rich Tokheim offered Tim Tebow a roster spot the day after he was cut by the New York Jets. The Beef\u2019s quarterback at the time, James McNear, cracked, \u201cI think Tim can learn a lot from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laugh if you will, but coach Cory Ross said the talent in the Beef\u2019s league, Champions Indoor Football, is better than you think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see why some guys aren\u2019t at the next level, but with other guys, you wonder why they haven\u2019t gotten an opportunity,\u201d said Ross, 32, who was a running back at Nebraska and for the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 2,500 college kids who come out as seniors, and only 255 get drafted. That\u2019s a lot of football players trying to find a place to play. Some go to Canada, some go to the arena league. And then there are leagues like ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CIF is one of five U.S. leagues with a total of 44 teams. The Indoor Football League, in which players make better than $200 a game, is considered the best of the five and is one step from the AFL.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-on-eight indoor game is played on a 50-yard field laid inside a hockey rink. Dasher boards, sans glass, are the sidelines, and the fans eat it up when receivers go up and over them to catch passes.<\/p>\n<p>The Beef\u2019s nickname is a nod to the city\u2019s reputation for great steaks. They play at Ralston Arena, aka \u201cThe Slaughterhouse,\u201d where they draw about 2,800 a game heading into Saturday\u2019s season finale. The female Prime Dancers and male Rump Roasters, along with a mascot named Sir Loin, provide in-game entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The booster club has been known to fill a 53-passenger bus, \u201cThe Meat Wagon,\u201d for games hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>As the team has struggled to a 1-10 record this season, the road following has dwindled to only the most ardent fans, like the five tailgating two hours before kickoff a couple of Saturdays ago in an otherwise empty parking lot at the Sioux City Bandits\u2019 arena.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, known as \u201cGunslinger,\u201d was a three-year starter at now-closed Dana College in Blair and works at Bellevue University. He\u2019s played in several indoor leagues, and in his best season earned a total of $5,000, not to mention other forms of pay ranging from that six-pack of beer to vouchers for tattoos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go out there to entertain people,\u201d Wright said. \u201cThey\u2019re not paying 10 or 20 bucks to see Chuck Wright the person. They\u2019re paying 10 or 20 bucks to see the Gunslinger. It\u2019s like a wrestling match. That\u2019s what they want to see, someone getting lit up and thrown over the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Receiver Brandon Kinnie also is in it for the love of the game. He played at Nebraska and went to training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2012. Now he works full time as an assistant manager at a shoe store and part time at a Nike outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to envy some of my good friends because they were playing in the NFL and I wasn\u2019t, and I didn\u2019t understand why I wasn\u2019t there,\u201d Kinnie said. \u201cIt just doesn\u2019t happen for everybody. It\u2019s OK. I\u2019m enjoying the company I\u2019m with now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robertson and Bridges don\u2019t mind living on the cheap if that\u2019s what it takes to move to a higher level someday. Robertson led Division II in solo tackles for West Virginia Wesleyan in 2013, and Bridges was a three-year starter for FCS-level Villanova.<\/p>\n<p>The Beef provide lodging at a Best Western motel for the handful of players who have no local ties. The team also gives them vouchers for meals at sponsor restaurants. The entire team meets Fridays for a pregame meal of chicken wings at Hooters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, if they\u2019re offering to feed us, we\u2019re going to eat it,\u201d Bridges said. \u201cThere is no trying to eat healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indoor football\u2019s greatest success story is running back Fred Jackson, who played the 2004 and \u201905 seasons for the Sioux City Bandits and in 2007 was starting for the Buffalo Bills. The CFL is a more realistic goal for the best indoor players, but even that\u2019s a longshot.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary Stampeders Assistant General Manager John Murphy said one or two players a year from indoor teams might make his team\u2019s active roster or practice squad. 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