I think using the words "set up" is far fetched. It seems that little to no effort was used in setting up anything. Zero national media coverage except for the Pat Mcafee show. He was polite as usual ;) ... but :
The Philadelphia Soul and the Arena Football League were mentioned as a topic in today’s episode of the Pat McAfee show.
“The Arena [Football] League is in a bad spot…but we want to let everybody know, we’re pulling for you”
next weekend we will see the rest of the venues and if it makes it to the third week...we will see the corrections made. They have no money obviously...and the ticket sales were abhorrent for an opening season weekend ...or at any time of the season for that matter. They just will not be able to sell enough tickets to generate "enough" cash flow to get them out of this mess or even sustain this mess......and no investor is going to step in...unless he/she/they are complete fn' idiots. Oh...and here are Nashville residents talking about the Kats and pricing(really bad):