(S22) - Ultimus Week

[youngcricket]

I think the most significant moment in NSFL history was when the Arizona Outlaws were caught cheating the league. As a member of the Arizona Outlaws at the time, I obviously have quite a bit of knowledge on the incident and how it has helped define the league. As a S1 player, I was drafted by ADwyer to the Arizona Outlaws and instantly became a Pro Bowl caliber level player. We had a good team that was not necessarily as active as the Orange County Otters, but we had two decent quarterbacks, a very good runningback, the best DE in the game, and arguably the best LB core with both me and Ernston. While we had all of these pieces, the Orange County Otters had a little clique of guys that were very good and played with the engine a lot. We basically only had Er that played with the engine and he was the simmer. Nobody really expected us to be that good, but we knew that we had a shot to at least be decent in the first season. When the season started, we performed about like we expected to and we had a pretty solid season finishing in the middle of the pack. The Otters appeared to be the far and away best team in the league with some push coming from the Wraiths and maybe the Hawks I'm not sure on that part. But when it was the end of the season, Tuck had the best stats ever and myself and Ernston also were league leaders. We made an unlikely run to win it all, but it wasn't too much of a shock because we were all new to the sim engine and it didn't seem too far fetched that there was a lot more parity than expected in the first season of the league. The Outlaws winning it all was not a huge surprise, but it was odd how many road games we were able to win en route to being the first champs. The second season we were slowly falling behind in TPE to some teams, but still had high expectations because we added guys like Luke Luechly and Tim Pest to our team. Two guys that would end up being Pro Bowlers in their first seasons and would compliment the offensive line and complete the best linebacker corps in the league. So with these additions and no real subtractions to the team, we were set up as a team that could make a run in a league that still had a lot of parity to its name. We ended up winning in season two as well and all of our rookies were active. Almost every rookie we got from kicker to offensive line was active and earning TPE but not overly active in the locker room. Odd, but not really an issue because we were winning and they were putting in their TPE. We win that and return season three as the favorites. Long story short its the same situation and I am ready to leave Arizona because we are winning too much. I am brought back and we win a third championship in a row before I decide to leave the Outlaws. It started to get suspicious as we were winning at a high rate and every player we drafted seemed to be a star in the making. Eventually some people around the league got suspicious about the situation and started to look into IP logs and times that people were online and it caused a giant mess for the Outlaws organization. ErMurazor was shot down as the simmer and was found to have been running multiple multis and likely if he was willing to do this, he tampered with results for the first three seasons. This didn't necessarily discount guys like Bronko, Ernston, Mackworthy, and myself as we were all high earners and dominant players, but it did raise questions as to how much our careers were helped by Er in these times. Er ends up getting one of the heftiest punishments we've seen and the Outlaws are literally destroyed. It takes them until S17 to win another trophy. This scandal wiped out the first dynasty that the league had ever seen. Had this not been caught, there is no telling how many more accoutns would have been made in the name and how much more the organization would have won. It ultimately has put nicks in the reputations of a lot of players' careers and has definitely put a cloud over the Arizona organization as a whole. This was the biggest scandal the league has ever, and hopefully will ever, seen. Without this the Outlaws are likely a top tier team for a couple more seasons and however long that Er is the simmer. I can't remember who brought this down, but the fall of this dynasty was monumental.

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