AFL Makes New Rule Changes for 2016

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The Arena Football League has made many different rule changes in preperation for the 2016 season, which begins April 1. New rules include:

- no more Official Review during the last minutes of each half of games nationally televised. Each team's challenges will be controlled by the head coaches. Each coach gets two challengwes per game, and if a coach succeeds on two challenges, they will be awarded a third challenge.

- A play will be blown dead if the ball carrier loses their helmet.

- A personal foul penalty will be addressed if any opposing player(s) tries to pry their opponent from a pile-up of any sort.

- the kicking team is allowed a maximum of five players on either side of the kicker at the time the ball is kicked.

The 29th season of the Arena Football League kicks off April 1 with the Cleveland Gladiators hosting the Philadelphia Soul and the Tampa Bay Storm hosting the Orlando Predators in the "War on I-4".