(S29) PT 4 - Statues

[ddrector]

Wow, this is an extremely hard decision to make. The Second Line has so many great candidates for statues of past players. Quentin Bode comes to mind as one of if not the greatest linebacker in ISFL history. When he retired he led the league in career tackles by a wide margin. He was a major part of the teams rebuild starting in S15 that culminated in the team winning the Ultimus in S21. He was a mainstay in the middle of the defense for a long time. Another great option is another player from that same S15 class and that's running back Forrest Gump. Gump had such a huge career in NOLA and was one of the best running backs in ISFL history. While I don't think he's quite as impactful as the aforementioned players I do think my first player, David Rector, ended up having a pretty great career. Especially with winning a defensive player of the year and MVP nomination near the end of my career. While their careers aren't quite over yet I could also see Mason Blaylock and Ed Barker making a case for a statue. Oh and how could I forget Austin McCormick who was a premier tight end. Screw it, let's just have a statue for all these players.

[woelkers]

A player who could justifiably have statues with two different franchises...RB Ashley Owens, @run_CMC.

[37thchamber]

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[golden_apricot]

Outside of the stadium the buccs need o build a statue to the teams lord and savior Pepelegs. Not only is he one of the offensive linemen for the team and he is decent at best. The real rason for the statue is to immortalize him for his ability to put the words of others in his blinders and do something to prove them wrong. All of his life he has been told he is too smol and his his legs would never grow and because of that he would never be able to play football at all, let alone a position that requires strength in the lower body. All through his life the words of others have been used as motivation and the team needs to find a way to make sure all fans and future team members are able see that and be inspired by the actions of pepelegs and his smol legs. The statue should be situated at the enternce of the stadium and fans can walk by and rub their hands on the smol legs of the statue. Over time the legs will get smoller and smoller until one day the statue will be taken down and immortalized in the HOF, just like Pepelegs will be.

[Mooty99]

Well this is very easy to answer the statue outside the Austin Copperheads stadium could go to any number of people, the founder AdamS or the longest serving GM Carlito Crush but really it can only be of the 1st and current only member of the Austin Copperheads who are currently in the ISFL Hall of Fame, the one, the only Mako Mendonca. Now I am in no way bias with my choice here, honest but who else could it truly go to? Mako has played such a large part for the club and can still be found training runningback, eating the concessions stand out of hotdogs, arguing with former Quarterback Easton Cole about pretty much every (that grumpy old git!). The statue should be one of Mako in action, mid stride with his famous sneer across his face, shoulders levelled charging forward spilling defenders asunder as he did so often in his career. The statue will of course be large as Mako was a player larger than life both on the field and off it and he will insist the Easton Cole helps him with the unveiling it solely for the reason that it will annoy him greatly. Yes the great man deserves this after all!


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[Dagumpa]

As I've said on numerous occasions, I am not an ISFL historian. I'm probably the opposite if anything. In fact, I'd argue I have negative amounts of knowledge of the ISFL. Which means when I tell you everything I know about the ISFL, you become dumber as a result. Although that's generally what happens to everyone who talks to me. I'll start to complain about how pogs aren't in style anymore. Then I'll try to flag down random people walking by to ask them about their favorite soda branding. Meanwhile, you'll be constantly refreshing the Uber app in hopes that you won't be in hell for much longer. But anyway, I only know one Austin Copperhead pretty well: Dex Kennedy. I've talked at length about how crazy his previous season was. I mean, 4 defensive touchdowns. Hubba hubba. So yeah, I'd give myself a statue. And I'd list all four of the awards I won that season alone. Which is also all the awards I've ever won in this league. And I'd mention that I got less votes for the Pro Bowl than the other two LBs named to it that season. Just...don't include my all-time win/loss record. I got about the same amount of cred there as Cal Ripken. But I am pretty sexy. So there's that.

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[CementHands]

Honolulu doesn't have too much history to look back at yet, but when considering members for statues, some of the original builders of the franchise came to mind. Unfortunately the group looks to be deciding to go with a player instead, as the builders haven't been able to achieve great success in the post season so far. Some of these players came up and were shot down for various reasons - their time was good, but too short of a life, they flamed out after having high hopes, or they just were mediocre.

Until one man came up in discussion? What about Ragnar?

What about myself? Well after-all why not myself? Let's break down some of the criteria:
I wasn't a high (not even first round!) draft pick, so there is no real worry about under preforming, and if I flamed out it would not have been a huge blow. striking hot after the second round is always nice, and with this pick they landed a career Tight End, some stability on the offensive flanks who can hit with the best of the linemen, and catch with the best of the receivers. A player who was better than mediocre, constantly among the top 10 in the position (shh, don't read into that) in the league, and Honolulu's best hands down Tight End they have had to date. An iconic man, and iconic hair are going to look good bronzed.

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[Beaver]

Obviously the statue I would choose for the Tijuana Luchadores to put outside their historic stadium is of the legendary offensive lineman Maiteers Rico-Shea who played there for a number of seasons and accumulated another number of pancakes while allowing a smaller number of sacks and the peak of the career of Maiteers Rico-Shea was in Season 26 when he dominated the competition en route to an extremely deserved Development Simulation Football League Offensive Lineman of the Year award now you may recall that a small number of people with even smaller IQs thought that cheese furley should be the winner of the award because of penalties or something but luckily the awards committee made the right decision and in my opinion the proper way to commemorate that extremely correct decision would be to erect a statue of Maiteers Rico-Shea pancaking Cheeze Fairley while holding the Development Simulation Football League Offensive Lineman of the Year award aloft and surrounded by penalty flags because the amount that Maiteers Rico-Shea dominated Cheers Farlo really was unnecessary roughness although on the other hand some would say that was extremely necessary and those people would be correct just like the awards committee so yes that is the statue that I would choose to erect outside the Tijuana Luchadores stadium to honor a team legend in fact I mocked up a possible design of the statue for those of you who are visual learners:

[huck24]

Choosing a player or players from the New Orleans Second Line history or present for that matter is a tricky thing.  Out of all the amazing players that have suited up for the New Orleans Second Line, who is most deserving of being immortalized in front of the stadium for all to see?  Should it be a player who helped win a Ulitmus for the Second Line?  Or perhaps a GM who put the Ultimus winning team in place?  Could a player who hasn't won an Ultimus for New Orleans be considered?  Should this person only have ever played for or GM'd in New Orleans?  With all the questions, the front office in New Orleans wanted to reach out to their faithful fans as well, after all, they would be the ones walking past the statue on game days. The fans were unanimous in their decision.  They voted for fan favourite, Forrest Gump.  Gump was a mainstay in New Orleans for quite a while and having just hung up his cleats a little bit ago, the fans didn't want to forget his accomplishments and drive for the Second Line to succeed any time soon.  The front office could not agree more with the fans and a statue commemorating the great Forrest Gump is currently in production and will be being unveiled before the end of the season.  Gump will be remembered for decades to come with this honour and I for one couldn't think of a better player to be remembered!

[Mavfatha]

Chicago is kinda a tough one since we have no players inducted to the Hall of Fame as a Butcher, though we do have two players that at least played for our team in Kazimir Oles and Marquise Brown. Brown would be a solid choice for this honor as he is just straight-up one of the best running backs in the history of the league so even if he did not play for us for the majority of his career it could be more of a lifetime achievement award. That's not super appealing to me though, so I'd rather talk about a few of my current teammates as potential options. George O’Donnell has been with the team for quite awhile and is obviously a flashy choice as a QB - for right now I could easily see him being the choice and I would not have any regrets about that one. Looking a bit further forward for some of our younger but already key players, Juan Domine and Wasrabi Gleel stand out to me as potential options with some room to grow into the honor over time by continuing to anchor our defensive unit. In conclusion, there is not really one singular obvious choice, but there are several "right" options that could end up being the best option when all is said and done.