10) Well where else to begin other than setting the stage for our latest season. Coming into the season we know that we are going to be a good team. We won 10 games the season before, and we only had a couple of players regress while the rest of our team was still earning like crazy. We thought we might have a chance at improving on our 10 win season and possibly win even more games than that. We also had a couple of players who had been on our team for a really long time, and we knew that their careers were coming to an end sooner or later. Those players were wide receiver Sean O’Leary and linebacker Mike Hockhertz. They are both two of the top players in the Chicago Butchers entire history. So we wanted to win a championship for them. Our preseason was pretty forgettable, grabbing 2 wins and 2 losses. I suppose that every team’s preseason is pretty forgettable though to be honest. I bet 99% of the people in the league have no idea how their team did in the preseason last season. Okay, it’s time for the regular season. It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. We’re facing the Yellowknife Wraiths, who I think were the defending Ultimus champions. It’s going to be a tough game, but we somehow pulled it off! Man, this really might be our season if we were able to defeat such a good team. We end up rattling off 3 more wins after that one to start our season off with a 4 game win streak. All 4 of these wins came against divisional opponents as well, which is pretty huge for us. Our next 4 games weren’t quite as awesome for us though. We got 1 win and 3 losses in those next 4. One of these games was one of the weirdest games I have ever been a part of. It was week 7, we were playing the Fire Salamanders in Berlin. I remember checking the score and seeing that it was 5-5 at one point and being so confused. The final score ended up being 8-5. This game actually came back to bite us later in the season. We ended up finishing the season 12-4, pretty much meeting our expectations! Unfortunately, the Sailfish also finished the season 12-4, and like I said, that low scoring game came back to bite us. First tiebreaker is head to head, which was tied. Second tiebreaker is divisional record, which was tied. The next tiebreaker is points scored. We were 17 points behind Sarasota, so they got the first round bye in the playoffs. We ended up getting bounced in the playoffs in the first round, before we even met the rival Sailfish.
17) As you may already have been aware, I play for the Chicago Butchers as a kicker. A real life butcher typically deals with a lot of, well, blood. For some ungodly reason, our organization’s marketing team somehow thought that it would be a good idea to take advantage of this. I think it was a horrible idea, but upper management decided they also liked the idea. This idea was to put ketchup on everything. It looks like blood, so it matches our brand, apparently. Ketchup on hot dogs? Sure, that’s common enough. Burgers? Yep, that’s not too strange. Spaghetti? Okay we are starting to get weird, and also why are we serving spaghetti at a football game in the first place, does anyone else do this? Sandwiches? You’re losing me. Pop corn? Oh no, what have you done? It is probably the grossest thing that I have ever seen. Well at least, it would be if they hadn’t started putting ketchup on candy bars and cotton candy. A sugary snack with ketchup on it should be illegal. My GMs need to be locked up as soon as is humanly possible. They are lucky that I haven’t decided to ask for a trade, or just straight up leave the team yet.
21) I think that there are two teams with really good branding that I really like. I am kind of struggling to figure out which of the two I really like more, so I’ll just list them both I guess. The first team with branding that I’m a big fan of is the Orange County Otters. Using an otter as the team’s mascot and logo is really unique. I’ve never seen a sports team use an otter before. The choice to play in Orange County is also really good, because OCO is a really cool abbreviation for a team. Whether you say it as “oh see oh” or “ohko”, it flows off the tongue really well. The Sarasota Sailfish also have really nice branding. The bright and vibrant colors are nice to look at. Like the otters, the sailfish is a really unique mascot and logo. The only team I can think of that uses something similar is the Miami Marlins. The Sarasota Sailfish shares something else with the Miami Marlins, and that is the alliteration of the name, with the double S sound. The more I think about it, the more I think that the Sarasota Sailfish just kind of ripped off the Miami Marlins. They’re even based in the same state!
17) As you may already have been aware, I play for the Chicago Butchers as a kicker. A real life butcher typically deals with a lot of, well, blood. For some ungodly reason, our organization’s marketing team somehow thought that it would be a good idea to take advantage of this. I think it was a horrible idea, but upper management decided they also liked the idea. This idea was to put ketchup on everything. It looks like blood, so it matches our brand, apparently. Ketchup on hot dogs? Sure, that’s common enough. Burgers? Yep, that’s not too strange. Spaghetti? Okay we are starting to get weird, and also why are we serving spaghetti at a football game in the first place, does anyone else do this? Sandwiches? You’re losing me. Pop corn? Oh no, what have you done? It is probably the grossest thing that I have ever seen. Well at least, it would be if they hadn’t started putting ketchup on candy bars and cotton candy. A sugary snack with ketchup on it should be illegal. My GMs need to be locked up as soon as is humanly possible. They are lucky that I haven’t decided to ask for a trade, or just straight up leave the team yet.
21) I think that there are two teams with really good branding that I really like. I am kind of struggling to figure out which of the two I really like more, so I’ll just list them both I guess. The first team with branding that I’m a big fan of is the Orange County Otters. Using an otter as the team’s mascot and logo is really unique. I’ve never seen a sports team use an otter before. The choice to play in Orange County is also really good, because OCO is a really cool abbreviation for a team. Whether you say it as “oh see oh” or “ohko”, it flows off the tongue really well. The Sarasota Sailfish also have really nice branding. The bright and vibrant colors are nice to look at. Like the otters, the sailfish is a really unique mascot and logo. The only team I can think of that uses something similar is the Miami Marlins. The Sarasota Sailfish shares something else with the Miami Marlins, and that is the alliteration of the name, with the double S sound. The more I think about it, the more I think that the Sarasota Sailfish just kind of ripped off the Miami Marlins. They’re even based in the same state!
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