So....let's address the worst kept secret about the Arizona Outlaws. We applied for relocation. We're awaiting the vote now as the HO discusses the issue. I'll present both sides of it right now, and for points. :lol:
The pro relocation side is based around the really obvious reasons. Arizona has a tainted history due to the Er thing. The team will pretty much never live it down in it's current incarnation. Almost one wastes an opportunity to bring it up and frequently use it for all sorts of trash talk or questioning individual players' legacies. People put the * next to and on everything they can to the point that most people have already forgotten that it would be two of them, not three. It's evolved into something with a life of it's own and no matter what changes on this team, it won't escape that. Teams have used it on their official twitters despite it being a 4th wall breaking situation. Changing the team can wash that away.
On the flipside is the worry from several people in HO that way too many teams want to relocate at the same time. The quietly enacted rules on relocation from this past season mitigate that somewhat but there was still a surge of demand that created a worry that relocation would suddenly become an out of control cluster. Another unnamed team with basically no good reason to mvoe was in the discussion partway through the season and of course a certain someone pulling bullshit in the DSFL didn't help matters on that, either. The concern is that it will become the fad thing to do. Thus there is some pushback on the idea of the Outlaws moving either this offseason or at all. I personally understand this concern and will fight against arbitrary moving of teams. I think you need a really good reason to mvoe these franchises that are just now starting to cement legacies as the league moves out of it's earliest stages of development.
Vegas had great reasons in the massive non start as a franchise with draft pick drama, followed by several awful losing seasons, then finished up with an organized fuck you to the team by former players. I feel that we have really good reasons, as I've labelled above. But the league overall also needs to have some structure and stability to it and I can see (but not agree with) the HO position that this decisions requires caution. We'll see how it all shakes out.
Or something else?
The pro relocation side is based around the really obvious reasons. Arizona has a tainted history due to the Er thing. The team will pretty much never live it down in it's current incarnation. Almost one wastes an opportunity to bring it up and frequently use it for all sorts of trash talk or questioning individual players' legacies. People put the * next to and on everything they can to the point that most people have already forgotten that it would be two of them, not three. It's evolved into something with a life of it's own and no matter what changes on this team, it won't escape that. Teams have used it on their official twitters despite it being a 4th wall breaking situation. Changing the team can wash that away.
On the flipside is the worry from several people in HO that way too many teams want to relocate at the same time. The quietly enacted rules on relocation from this past season mitigate that somewhat but there was still a surge of demand that created a worry that relocation would suddenly become an out of control cluster. Another unnamed team with basically no good reason to mvoe was in the discussion partway through the season and of course a certain someone pulling bullshit in the DSFL didn't help matters on that, either. The concern is that it will become the fad thing to do. Thus there is some pushback on the idea of the Outlaws moving either this offseason or at all. I personally understand this concern and will fight against arbitrary moving of teams. I think you need a really good reason to mvoe these franchises that are just now starting to cement legacies as the league moves out of it's earliest stages of development.
Vegas had great reasons in the massive non start as a franchise with draft pick drama, followed by several awful losing seasons, then finished up with an organized fuck you to the team by former players. I feel that we have really good reasons, as I've labelled above. But the league overall also needs to have some structure and stability to it and I can see (but not agree with) the HO position that this decisions requires caution. We'll see how it all shakes out.
Or something else?
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