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Arena League sellouts

Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2003 | 10:09 a.m.

Arena football had two sellout games all of last season. It took only the opening weekend of the new season to match it.

Sellouts in Chicago (16,143) and Colorado (17,483) and the largest crowd ever in Los Angeles (14,827) helped the Arena Football League to post a 26 percent rise in attendance compared to last year's opening weekend.

The eight Week 1 games averaged 13,064 fans per game, up from 10,389 in 2002.

"Although we lost 75 selling days this offseason as a result of moving the start of our season to February to accommodate NBC, our teams worked harder than ever to fill their arenas," AFL commissioner David Baker said.

"We expect another season-average attendance increase this year."

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