Offseason Point Task - 25th Anniversary Special

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I am still somewhat new here.  I just finished my first DSFL season and was just last week drafted to my first ISFL team.  So, my experience may not be nearly as robust as some other users, but I feel that I have already experienced some of the best parts of this league.  I came over from the SHL which was my first ever introduction to the sports simulation world.  I enjoyed it from go and have made the best player I could who is currently in his last season before regression.  I do not know why it took me this long to make a player here and I don’t know why I finally decided to do it.  But I did, and once again I’m hooked.

I forgot how fun it was to create a player, deciding which position to play, which stats to bulk up on first.  The whole draft process, talking to scouts and GMs, speculating on when my players name might be called and then when it is, meeting the players in the locker room for the first time.  These are moments I forgot about, it had been a while since I started a career and I forgot how much I enjoyed it. 

Now that I’ve been drafted into the ISFL, I’m starting to remember the second stage of a player’s career.  Molding your player into the best possible player you can.  Earning as much TPE as possible to make sure your player can perform in the big leagues and eventually start helping put some Ws into the win column. I can not wait to see what player I can make in this league and I am eager to get it going.
I was lucky enough to get drafted to a great team in the DSFL and I was able to be part of the S25 Ultimini winning team.  I’ve had my first taste of victory on the grid iron and I want more of it.  I want to keep this going and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

So, when I really think what I like about / am thankful about in this league, I have to say that it is that it just exists.  That a group of people put in so much effort for a guy like me to be able to receive so much excitement, so much joy in watching a few dots run around on a screen.  I played a lot of team sports in my younger years and I loved every minute of it.  But know that I’m older, and life has taken over, I didn’t have that same joy that I did while I was playing sports and part of a team.  This league (like the SHL) has given that back to me, and I can not express how much that means to me.  So thank you for making a old guy feel like a part of a team again!


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