(S23) - PT3 - Dream Team

[Jiggly_333]

Look, we've been over this many times. If you give me an expansion team, I'll just put it in Chicago and call it a day. Literally, I'll just stop doing any work at that point and the team will just collapse around me while I'm fucking off having a mental breakdown or a depressive episode cause that's what happens apparently every time I'm in charge of a team.

Let's not put this one in Chicago. There's already a quality Chicago team in the NSFL, at least in terms of branding. I know because I helped with it. I would suggest another midwest team, but I feel like that's also way too normal of a Jiggly answer. And obviously, my next choice would be Japan; but that's way too weeb-y of an answer. So how about an idea I had before the Chicago Blues. Yeah, we're going way back. Back when the original plan for the DSFL was to have it be in Europe.

One of the first things I do is look at the list of Chicago's "Sister Cities" and it's got some solid ones like Paris, Milan, Mexico City, Moscow, and Athens. But when it comes to England, we didn't get London. We didn't get Liverpool. Not even Manchester. We got fucking Birmingham, a city that most Americans only think of as the city in Alabama. It's not a bad city by any means, but I feel like it's one of those places that you don't even think about unless you live in England. So I want an NSFL team there.

So my idea is very similar to that of the concept I ended up with in the DSFL:
Birmingham Steel

So, it has nothing to do with the steel industry, although Birmingham apparently had a historic relationship to the gunsmithing industry. It actually comes from the fact that some of the most important artists in heavy metal came out of Birmingham. Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and Led Zeppelin all came from Birmingham. It's a small thing. It's tough to always name a team after something that truly connects to a city if you don't live in it, but I think that's good enough for government work.