(S19) - PT2 - Back to Reality

[AdamS]

Dick knew it was the end of the game as soon as he saw the refs inform the team that they would be utilizing an untested, unsigned, undrafted bot to play Running Back behind Mako. Obviously as a veteran team leader you can't just say that sort of thing, but Dick knew. Week 1 of every NSFL season had a tremendous amount of quirks and bugs that for some reason didn't get worked out in the preseason. he never could figure out why and so he'd stopped trying long ago. In this case he could immediately see the bot wasn't ready. Yet for the sometimes arbitrary seeming rules of the league, the poor thing would have to play. Dick would have even stepped in himself instead but while his mind still understood what it meant to be a runner at the highest level, his body wasn't built for that anymore. So he kept it to himself, and he played as best he could knowing that across the field a confident Colorado Yeti home team was getting to run with the next Marquis Brown freshly added to their roster. Well, until he left them too for the next glory anyway. Dick did his job as did every man in his unit and the team fought hard before coming up just short. The bot was absolutely outmatched and couldn't do anything in the 8 carries it had, and was never heard from again afterward. Not the poor thing's fault really. Just the way things went in the NSFL at times.