(S24) - PT 1 - Trivia Night

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I played on the Amarillo Tumbleweeds in the S24 Prospect Bowl. The team had offensive struggles throughout the Bowl, which often lay on the shoulders of QB Bill Brasky. Things got so bad at one point that there were even fights in the locker room between players on the defense and Brasky, as reported by SET's Bert Mercer. After that conflict, our offense started off hot in the Tumbleweeds' playoff game against the Brooklyn Atlantics, and we got out to a 20-3 lead at the half. It all came tumbling down in the second half as Brasky threw a pick 6 and the offense was held scoreless. We lost 23-20 to the eventual Prospect Bowl champions.

Come draft night, I was surprised when Brasky was drafted and the commentators announced him as a kicker/punter. I had played with him only a few weeks ago as quarterback, but apparently he had switched positions since then and the Grey Ducks drafted him to be their kicker/punter. It's impossible for me to know whether it was his poor play in the prospect bowl that led him to switch positions or whether his dreams of being a kicker were hindering his quarterback play for the Tumbleweeds. Apparently the switch is going decently well for him, as his kicking with the Grey Ducks has been solid and he had a great first week punting with a 44.7 yd average and 3 punts inside the 20. Regardless, it is always going to be strange for me to watch Grey Ducks games and see my controversial Prospect Bowl QB out there in a completely different position.

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[mcgriddleluver]

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[RansackTheUniverse]

Back in high school, Eldrick Avery had a terrible problem. He played wide receiver for his high school team, and was the most athletic player on his team by a mile, but he couldn’t catch a football to save his life. Avery set the single season national high school record with 68 drops in his freshman season. Because of this, he promptly switched positions that offseason and became a cornerback. So that was that, Avery now played defense, and his problem with dropping footballs with never bother him again. Or so he thought. Avery is now a starting cornerback for the Baltimore Hawks of the ISFL. He had a solid rookie season, and played well again in his second season in the league, however it was then that his problem with drops reared its ugly head once again. Avery managed to finished top 5 in the league in pass deflections, and was actually first in the entire NSFC, with 20. Normally, that would be a strong enough effort to make the Pro Bowl. Unfortunately for Avery, he didn’t manage to snag a single interception all season long. He got his hands on the football 20 times, and likely had countless other opportunities, but he didn’t manage to catch a single football. He was the only player in the top 20 for pass deflections that didn’t record a single interception. If he had managed even 1, it is quite possible it would have been enough for a Pro Bowl nod. We’ll see if anything changes this season, but I wouldn’t count on it. So far it’s been 2 game, no picks, same old story.

[Mooty99]

Discord game I hear you say, well this should be a nice easy one for me to talk about and make no mistake. Jackie loves discord games especially the immensely popular werewolf games that take place on discord between various players in the ISFL. Now I have played many werewolf games in my day and I could talk about one of the great victories I have had, after all I am a player of great repute, but instead I will tell you about the latest ones and the failures that took place in it. This latest game I was the alpha the key killing role, and my first nights action went very well indeed taking out the Liberties runningback Torenson who was a key town role. But the issues were there early, my fellow wolves looked to me for guidance and I did so with aplomb. The second day of playing went well, I was unsuspected by all of town and had a number of there roles sussed out including the sleepwalker and was closing in on the seer and doctor. Unfortunately for me my game was ended abruptly, by a vengeful Liberty player Vargas who in the role of murderer killed me. Now I am stucking watch from the graveyard, make no mistake it is not much fun.


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[Sylphreni]

Greedy Sly trivia story time!!! Back during his time with the Ohio State Football team, Greedy was by all means a star player. That said, he has always been a bit of a prankster, which would occasionally rear up during his time with the team. From buckets full of ice water in the showers, to locking the QBs in the QB room during their film sessions, Greedy always found something to have a good time with. Perhaps the biggest prank from his career at the Ohio State Football team had to do with the coaching staff. Late in the season, when the team was beginning preparations for Rivalry week, and the big game against the Michigan Wolverines; Greedy found an opening to have a bit of fun with the coaches who were staying late to gameplan. Whilst the coaches were busy toiling away, Greedy went to their parking spots, and with the help of some of his teammates shifted the cars into neutral, and slowly pushed them into the middle of the O on the field. Roughly an hour and a half of this, and they had half the coaches cars pushed into the middle of the field. The coaches when they found out were certainly mad, but eventually laid the blame at Michigan’s players' feet as opposed to their own.

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[bex]

I've had one goal that's dominated my thoughts the last few seasons. You see, in New Orleans, the amazing juosu keeps top ten lists for everything in terms of team stats. The lists are amazing. Getting to appear on one of the lists felt like such an honor, and as such I've been focused on getting on as many of those lists as I possibly can. Some of these lists are fairly easy to hit, particularly the season and career lists. But the set of lists that have eluded me up to now have been the game records list. As an efficient running back, the rushing average top ten list has been my specific priority. Now, the rules are simple. Must be on 10+ carries, with the lowest entry on the list being 6.1 yards per carry. I've gotten close in past games, but have usually been a carry or two short of making the mark. Well, this season, I've managed to meet this goal TWO times in just the first 4 games. In the first NOLA game of the season, I managed to truly hit the ground running with a 6.5 ypc, putting me in the #9 spot on the list. This was an amazing feeling of course, but I'm always looking to one up myself. So, in the third game of the season, we came in at a cool 6.7 ypc, moving my previous performance into the #10 spot and scooting in at #8. While this little trivia tidbit might not matter to anyone else, it's something that I'm immensely pleased with. I'm now going to have to figure out what my next career goal will be with Toriki!

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[HalfEatenOnionBagel]

I guess one interesting little thing that I can talk about is the origin of Toleso Tequila. I've definitely written multiple articles explaining it to some extent but for people randomly glancing at my sigs they may have no idea what the heck Toleso is. I'll be honest I don't even exactly remember the conversation that led to it but maybe in the Philly LR archives I could dig it up. Basically Perry, numbers and I were just shooting the shit one day in the OG Philly LR and someone (I think Perry) made a typo and typed Toleso instead of Toledo. We just liked the way Toleso sounded and decided that it would be cannon that our three players and Oles' would start this Tequila brand. We thought it was funny how close the typo was to just being TOles so we had to include Oles of course and have always joked that it's named after him of course. I needed an idea for an article so I wrote about our players making this tequila brand and it's always been a bit of lore that I've tried to carry on as I've been in the league. The four of us have continued to refer to ourselves as the Toleso gang/boys and it probably means nothing to anyone else but it's just kind of our little secret bond in the league. So yeah maybe not anything related to on the field but the story behind my signature, the mysterious Toleso, and the bond between 4 members of the league that have been around on and off since the early days of the league.

[GoonerBear]

Way back in the eldritch days of Season 10, a young, bright-eyed rookie from Slidell, Louisiana was called up to play for the San Jose SaberCats for the first time. Kolby Deringer, the defensive pride of the University of Texas, took the field following the opening kickoff against their in-state rivals, the Orange County Otters. What's on the tape is that on his very first drive, the second play from scrimmage, Deringer vaulted over the trenches, into the backfield, and brought down his old Kansas City Coyotes teammate and then-OCO QB Gus T.T. Showbiz for a safety.

What people did not see is that after the game, despite the game ending in defeat for the Cats, that play and the remainder of his performance that night earned Deringer the game ball, as he would pick up 7 tackles, 2 sacks, and recover a fumble in addition to the safety. That very night, he and the rest of the veterans on defense treated the rookies - Deringer, Odell Marrett, and D'Pez Poopsie - to a night out pub crawling in San Jose. The trio got their first takedowns and nicks in, and there would be plenty more.

Despite being named defensive player of the game in that matchup, Deringer, like the other two, had the tab sprung on them the first time they were headed out to another place. They were told to expect drinks to be on them all night long. Perhaps all season long if they didn't find another way to break the newbies in.

[juniped]

Pandas day at the spa:

It had been a long week of training, and Panda was exhausted. His coaches made him run all day, and he felt gross, so he decided he was going to spend the next day at the Spa. A personal day just for himself, where nobody could disturb him.  The next morning he packed everything he needed, had his assistant make sure to block the day off and headed down to the spa. To his surprise when he got there he saw, who else but Adélie de Pengu! Turns out they had come to Philadelphia to visit for the weekend,  looking for the best cheesesteaks in the world. Well they had a good laugh and it turned out that they had the whole spa to themselves all day. Well seeing as they had both just recently gotten paid so they decided to go for the FULL WORKS. Starting with a nice steam bath, then moving on to a mani/pedi. They then got a nice massage to work out all the kinks they had gotten throughout a long week of training. Finally they got a nice facial and relaxed by the pool with a drink. They had such a good time chatting and hanging out, Panda decided to show Pengu his favorite cheesesteak spot in town. They headed down there and had a grand old time, Pengu with 1 sandwich and Panda with his traditional 10. Well they had such a great day they decided that they would have to do it again and have become friends ever since.

[Attopax]

Asher Montain has had an interesting storyline through his career thus far. While I doubt it will continue on, the fact that he pretty much defined his DSFL career is impressive enough. When Asher was picked up off waivers, he joined the London Royals. The London Royals was ranked last in Power Projections at the beginning of the season and started off rather well, but then went on a 5 game losing streak. It was at that point that Montain joined the team. Immediately following Asher joining the starting lineup, we broke the streak and managed to clinch a playoff spot. But the story doesn't end there. In Season 22, London then upset the Minnesota Ducks *at home* and went on to the Ultimini. Unfortunately, London lost to Tijuana and the fairytale was over. Fast forward to Montain's draft season with Kansas City, and a similar story happened. Kansas City went from last in the Conference in Season 22 to leading the division in Season 23, and repeating his Ultimini appearance. Although he lost again, his had a very interested DSFL career where he made back-to-back Ultimini appearances on teams that entirely flipping the script. While it is doubtful that this championship streak will continue in Honolulu, hopefully Asher will be able to at least continue his streak of playing a part in a successful ending... even if the ending is a few seasons away.