9) What is it that keeps you interested in the league? Is it your love of dot football, the community, a specific job or role you play, or something else? What do you like most about it? What could be improved?
I probably watched one full football game in my entire life so it definitely isn’t my undying love of the sport that keeps me interested in the league. As much as I enjoy watching my little dot run during sims, that’s secondary too.
I’m not really one to talk about my feelings or my life but hey what the hell.
I’m generally pretty lonely in real life and am so shy it’s kinda ruining my life so my primary interest in sim leagues have always been the community and the perspective of forging real friendships.
At this point I’ll sound like a broken record but the Dallas Birddogs locker room is everything I ever wished for in a sim league team. Nah, scratch that, they completely blew my expectations of what a sim league team should be out of the water. So now as a side effect, any new locker room I join pales in comparison. That’s the one negative aspect of this entire situation.
Judging by some polls that were done for various media pieces over the past few seasons, people view the Birddogs as toxic but it couldn’t be further from the truth. They have helped me at a time in my life where I was so down I didn’t see how anything or anyone could help me get me back up. The fact that I was picked so low in the DSFL draft just accentuated this feeling of worthlessness and I was disappointed of where I ended up. I guess that’s another valuable lesson I learned. Now I would be more than happy to be picked 200th OA if it meant I was going to play for Dallas. The Birddogs lifted me up without me even having to talk about any problems I had or without asking for anything from me. Just making me feel so included and valued was enough to make my world a little less gray and it's comforting to know that when I want to say something dumb or share a stupid meme, they'll be there to laugh with me. I’m sure it sounds excessive as hell and a bit heavy for a sim league PT but I’m a firm believer that internet friendships can be as true as the ones we experience in real life.
So yeah, thanks to all the DSFL teams for drafting pretty much anybody and inactives before me so I could land on, hands down, the best community I’ve ever been a part of. To the people who think Dallas is toxic because our Twitter handler likes memes and joking around, well, it’s your loss.
10) Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?
I don’t follow the sim as much as I probably should but being a Chicago Butchers player has been quite depressing these past few seasons. It kind of reminds me of when I was on the Liberty with my old player. You know, “getting there” but not quite.
We had a great season and ended up with 10 wins for 6 losses. “Great” might be a bit much but we were second in the league in terms of points because of the parity. If you remove Philadelphia and Honolulu from the equation, every team had a pretty decent season and a shot at the playoffs.
In the end (it didn’t even matter), our much deserved playoff run was cut short by the team that had been an enigma to us all season long: the Sarasota Sailfish. A lot of our players had an amazing game, notably Sam Sidekick who was responsible for most of our points and George O’Donnell with his 103 QB rating. Sean O’Leary and Baby Yoda also did what they do best and led our team offensively. On defense, Juan Domine and Osiris Firestorm-Fjord also did extremely well. Despite all of that, we lost by one tiny point which is probably what made this loss so hard to swallow.
Individually, I had a pretty shitty game and I feel like I let my teammates down. I contributed for only 18 yards for the entirety of the game. Even if I’m earning well in terms of TPE, I’m disappointed that it didn’t really translate to better on-field performances.
Still, this season was definitely the best in my career so far. I’m not doing as well as I’d hope but I find comfort in knowing that I help the team, especially with longer runs. I’d like to improve my contribution to the scoring sheet though, since having long runs without scoring is meaningless. With Sean O’Leary starting to regress pretty heavily, I think my role on the team will change soon and I hope to have more responsibilities. Hopefully I didn’t entirely mess up my new build and will have a more direct impact on my team’s success with the new sim engine.
Even if our team’s results have been disappointing, I intend to be loyal to Chicago and stick with the team even in these tough times. I think we are truly close to being one of the top teams in the ISFL and even if we never quite reach that level, it won’t be because I decided to give up on my teammates.
I probably watched one full football game in my entire life so it definitely isn’t my undying love of the sport that keeps me interested in the league. As much as I enjoy watching my little dot run during sims, that’s secondary too.
I’m not really one to talk about my feelings or my life but hey what the hell.
I’m generally pretty lonely in real life and am so shy it’s kinda ruining my life so my primary interest in sim leagues have always been the community and the perspective of forging real friendships.
At this point I’ll sound like a broken record but the Dallas Birddogs locker room is everything I ever wished for in a sim league team. Nah, scratch that, they completely blew my expectations of what a sim league team should be out of the water. So now as a side effect, any new locker room I join pales in comparison. That’s the one negative aspect of this entire situation.
Judging by some polls that were done for various media pieces over the past few seasons, people view the Birddogs as toxic but it couldn’t be further from the truth. They have helped me at a time in my life where I was so down I didn’t see how anything or anyone could help me get me back up. The fact that I was picked so low in the DSFL draft just accentuated this feeling of worthlessness and I was disappointed of where I ended up. I guess that’s another valuable lesson I learned. Now I would be more than happy to be picked 200th OA if it meant I was going to play for Dallas. The Birddogs lifted me up without me even having to talk about any problems I had or without asking for anything from me. Just making me feel so included and valued was enough to make my world a little less gray and it's comforting to know that when I want to say something dumb or share a stupid meme, they'll be there to laugh with me. I’m sure it sounds excessive as hell and a bit heavy for a sim league PT but I’m a firm believer that internet friendships can be as true as the ones we experience in real life.
So yeah, thanks to all the DSFL teams for drafting pretty much anybody and inactives before me so I could land on, hands down, the best community I’ve ever been a part of. To the people who think Dallas is toxic because our Twitter handler likes memes and joking around, well, it’s your loss.
10) Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?
I don’t follow the sim as much as I probably should but being a Chicago Butchers player has been quite depressing these past few seasons. It kind of reminds me of when I was on the Liberty with my old player. You know, “getting there” but not quite.
We had a great season and ended up with 10 wins for 6 losses. “Great” might be a bit much but we were second in the league in terms of points because of the parity. If you remove Philadelphia and Honolulu from the equation, every team had a pretty decent season and a shot at the playoffs.
In the end (it didn’t even matter), our much deserved playoff run was cut short by the team that had been an enigma to us all season long: the Sarasota Sailfish. A lot of our players had an amazing game, notably Sam Sidekick who was responsible for most of our points and George O’Donnell with his 103 QB rating. Sean O’Leary and Baby Yoda also did what they do best and led our team offensively. On defense, Juan Domine and Osiris Firestorm-Fjord also did extremely well. Despite all of that, we lost by one tiny point which is probably what made this loss so hard to swallow.
Individually, I had a pretty shitty game and I feel like I let my teammates down. I contributed for only 18 yards for the entirety of the game. Even if I’m earning well in terms of TPE, I’m disappointed that it didn’t really translate to better on-field performances.
Still, this season was definitely the best in my career so far. I’m not doing as well as I’d hope but I find comfort in knowing that I help the team, especially with longer runs. I’d like to improve my contribution to the scoring sheet though, since having long runs without scoring is meaningless. With Sean O’Leary starting to regress pretty heavily, I think my role on the team will change soon and I hope to have more responsibilities. Hopefully I didn’t entirely mess up my new build and will have a more direct impact on my team’s success with the new sim engine.
Even if our team’s results have been disappointing, I intend to be loyal to Chicago and stick with the team even in these tough times. I think we are truly close to being one of the top teams in the ISFL and even if we never quite reach that level, it won’t be because I decided to give up on my teammates.
(07-05-2021, 04:34 PM)r0tzbua Wrote: My favourite person from Quebec (next to Celine Dion) @enigmatic
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