Offseason Point Task - 25th Anniversary Special

[sakrosankt]

So, the league passed 25 seasons, that‘s a whole lot of time. I‘m S22, so came to the league after the fateful reddit post on r/nfl. I joined in the last week of S20, when the playoffs were played. The idea of a simulated football league where I control a player was very exciting to me. It was February 2020, a month afterwards I experienced my first lockdown. This league helped a lot in going through that time, still feeling socialized in this amazing community.
I still remember the first few weeks being a bit hard to understand what‘s going on and were to find everything. But after being drafted, the whole league changed to an wonderful place. My first season in the league was a blast. Drafted to the Kansas City Coyotes, I met so many fantastic users. Starting with the GMs at that time, Starboy and Butters, who made the whole locker room such an amazing experience. My fellow S22 team mates, Matty, Money, Boogy, Eddie, Sweets, and Fakon. And of course Tree, who completed the yeet squad. We went all the way to the title game, were we unfortunately lost to Myrtle Beach, with their QB Ramos playing out of his mind. Tough loss. But while the finals were going, we already were scouted by the ISFL teams. This process was interesting. So many teams, so many users reaching out to you, just to see if you would be a good fit on their team and in their locker room.
I had preferences and hopes, but it was really hard to predict were one would go. In a 270 draft class and about half of them active at the time of the draft, noone really could predict how the draft would shake out. I was drafted at the end of the third round with pick #36 to the Sarasota Sailfish. I was the third WR off the board, only a few picks before me Eddie Jeeta and William Lim were taken.
I was surprised that the Sailfish drafted me, as they were stacked at WR already. But the team was one of my favorite destinations before the draft, so I was glad I got there. Frostbite and RainDelay made a very good impression on me, and I was hyped to help a expansion team starting from 0. Only a day after the draft I was the first player to join war room, ever since I‘m thankful I got on that team. It has been a blast from my first season on, so many amazing players who joined the organization and made me enjoy the league even more.
We made the playoffs in our first season, and only missed it once since then (in 4 seasons total), in which we also did go 8-8. After RainDelay had to step down due to irl stuff, I even was hired as co-GM in Sarasota. Since then I try my best to keep the team the awesome place it was when I joined it. I can‘t tell how much I love the team and all the players on it :peepofishheart: