Inside the Nation 9th Man Nation

Tom Jones joins Eric Thurow to bring a personal touch to the Arena Football League fan experience, conversation, and news during the initial launch of the show. We are here to have conversations regarding the AFL to help promote the game we love, Arena Football.

Topics of conversation will include fan experiences from the game day at one’s home arena to traveling on the road to watch your team. The opportunity to meet fans of the opposing team and to incite conversation about experiences on the Arena Football League. We will also discuss news from the league office and each individual team, preview a week’s game and review last week contests.

About Inside the Nation:
Tom Jones joins Eric Thurow to bring a personal touch to the Arena Football League fan experience, conversation, and news during the initial launch of the show. We are here to have conversations regarding the AFL to help promote the game we love, Arena Football.

Topics of conversation will include fan experiences from the game day at one’s home arena to traveling on the road to watch your team. The opportunity to meet fans of the opposing team and to incite conversation about experiences on the Arena Football League. We will also discuss news from the league office and each individual team, preview a week’s game and review last week contests.

Established in 2016, Hosts Tom Jones and Eric Thurow make the transition in being fans of just a single team to now supporting the entire Arena Football League. The team was the San Jose SaberCats. After the decision of the SaberCats ceasing operations,Eric decided to transition his spot from running the SaberCats fan club to now supporting the league as a whole. Eric brought the idea to Tom, who was also a very strong fan of the SaberCats and league agreed to join in on conversations with players, coaches, team staff members, team dancers and league officials to help sprea the word of the Arena Football League and the experience a fan can have through conversation.