(S24) - PT 1 - Trivia Night

[jdourtled]

I usually don't talk about my personal life, but I've been reminiscing about the past recently, so I might as well talk about a couple of my "glory" years. Halfway through my sophomore year, due to the military, my family moved from a military base in England to a very small town in Florida. Not much happened during the rest of my sophomore year, except for one person in one of my classes kept pestering me to join band (or rejoin in this case). After giving it some time, I thought I might as well try, since I had enjoyed doing it in middle school, but had to quit once I got to high school due to scheduling issues. Having to relearn how to play tenor saxophone/read music as well as having to learn how to march proved a bit difficult at first, but soon enough I got the hang of it and everything would go up from there. My school's marching/performance bands would go on to get superiors (the best possible rating) at every competition my junior and senior year, as well as march at both Disney World and Universal Studios, some of my favorite memories of school. As for personal achievements, I'd get superiors in solo performance my junior and senior year, as well as be a part of the Troy honor band my senior year.

[puolivalmiste]

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[JuOSu]

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[speculadora]

Let me tell you the story of a kind of fun what-if from my time as General Manager of the Orange County Otters. Back in the Season 9 draft, we really needed a linebacker, and there was one guy who I thought would have made an amazing fit both for our discord and our team: Kolby Deringer. Somehow he fell to the 4th overall pick in that draft and I was trying desperately to move up to get him. I offered Dawegg, the Sabercats GM at that time, our first rounder in that draft (8th overall), as well as a swap of our Season 10 1st for their Season 10 2nd. The two picks that we made with the selections I offered him were Ricky Adams and Danny Grithead, both future MVPs, though Grithead would go on to do so with Yellowknife. Still, both players were absolutely instrumental in our success from Seasons 12 thru 14, and helped us win back to back titles in Seasons 12 and 13. San Jose's Round 2 pick would wind up being the first of the round, which they used to select Xandra Troyski. No doubt the value would not have been bad if San Jose had accepted the deal, but we would not have found two eventual MVP winners and two of my favorite Otters from those seasons.

[Gwdjohnson]

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[Cincyfan96]

My story is about how I came across this league. Many of you know that Mithrandir is a friend of mine in real life. Well, one day at like 3 in the morning, he sent a group chat with me and my buddy a media post that he had made for this league. I started to read it, got really confused, and asked him what the heck was going on...Turns out he sent it to us by mistake, but it led to him telling us about this weird football league where he does homework to make fake money to train his football player who is actually a dot. I thought this is great kindling to mock him later and stored it away in the back of my mind. Well, fast forward a month or two and I'm now fully quarantining, working from home, and trying to find something to do between work calls so that I can stay sane in my new coworker-free environment (otherwise known as my guest room). I began to think about how I miss sports and the unthinkable happened, I remembered Mith's nerdball league and wondered if it might be fun...Quarantine really has made my brain foggy...Well, all that to say, a few texts and several hours later, I had made my own nerdball player, joined the nerdball discord and, a few weeks later Mith drafted me and nerdvana was reached. I am now proudly and fully a professional nerdball player and am looking forward to making a run at DSFL DPOY in this my second season! I can't believe it, but I'm so thankful I opened the door to this community and can't wait to keep on grinding out my homework so that my little dot gets all the sacks.

[DrunkenTeddy]

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[AW13]

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[Bwestfield]

When RedCydranth (Marc Spector) and I were younger we used to get together for a lot of game nights. We would usually play scattergories until very early in the morning with some of our other friends. Red and I were always debating the other’s answers. He saw my answers as foolish and I simply didn’t want to lose. Before he passed away we looked back on these memories fondly and had a good time reminiscing. One particular night that both of us remembered so well was when the category ‘Car Part’ came up. The letter was ‘T’. He argued that ‘Truck Bed’ was an acceptable answer. Red always thought outside the box and not putting down the obvious answers was always his claim to victory. We had to have argued over that for hours about why it should or should not be marked down as points. Some others joined in on his or my side. Ultimately I can’t remember the outcome but I do remember putting some absurd answers as retribution and using his own arguments against him. I also remember getting so red in the face that it matched my T-Shirt. I’m sad that I will never be able to do those things again but I am so happy that I am to remember them and share these memories with all of you.

[Southie]

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