Command Attendance third worst in League

When you look at the average attendance per game in the Arena Football League, the Kansas City Command have the third lowest average attendance.  When you look at total attendance to date, Kansas City has the second lowest attendance.  How bad is it?  Even the people for the Kansas City Command have stopped adding the attendance totals to their post-game reports.  The review of the Command victory over the shock on the KC Command web site referred to the crowd as "the thousands in attendance."  Well, you can get the numbers from Arenafan Online, and the posted attendance for the Command vs Shock game at Sprint Center was ... 3,870.  That just happens to be the second lowest attendance at a Command home game this season, and well below the attendance that the Kansas City Brigade were bringing in on their worst night prior to the collapse of the original AFL.

So, who are the best and the worst?  The top average attendance in the AFL right now belongs to the Orlando Predators.  The worst average attendance belongs to the Milwaukee Mustangs.  Between the Command and the Mustangs is Georgia, and taking a look at our neighbors to the north, the Iowa Barnstormers, they are averaging more than twice the average attendance of the KC Command.

You can blame a losing season.  You can claim that this is their first year in KC.  You can take it any direction you want, and it simply doesn't fly.  The Barnstormers lost six games in a row, still held attendance above 9,000.  The Kansas City Brigade packed more people into Kemper their first year out, and the Command aren't a new team, they are an old team with a new name, something else that upset a number of AFL fans in KC, the needless name change.  I would say, let's see how attendance looks when the Chicago Rush come to KC this next weekend, but that wouldn't be a fair comparison.  There could very well be a number of Chicago fans that come down to KC for their first experience in the Sprint Center.  It would be fun to hear their comments about the arena after the game.  But I will be watching attendance, and I will likely be watching the game from home on Nifty-TV unless somehow I fall into Free Tickets again.