What if the ISFL never decided to recruit from r/NFL? The obvious ramifications are that there are significantly fewer players in the league, and that we probably would not have seen even one instance of expansion compared to the four that we have seen courtesy of r/NFL drafts.
The S15 draft saw the Copperheads and Butchers come to reality and also kept the league alive with some of the important users to come from that draft class. While a large amount of S18 is now inactive it did also provide several important job holders in the league, and some major players outside of the job holders. It is the loss of S22 though that I think is most game changing as that means the Dallas Birddogs, London Royals, Honolulu Hahalua, and Sarasota Sailfish never come to fruition.
Honestly based on the talk of it that I have heard from league veterans the league might not even exist if that decision is not made and that is an interesting thing to think about to be honest. I know many in the S22 class spent their quarantine basically in the league and where would that time have gone if not for the ISFL? This point task wants to talk about the league though and so I am going to conclude that if not for the r/NFL drafts that the league would have gone under before S25.
The epilogue to the story of the ISFL in-universe would be that it got bought out by a resurgent NFL and the teams fused with preexisting NFL teams. Unfortunately the fusion of the London Jaguars and Yellowknife Wraiths would lead to widespread rioting as the two international teams are forced to choose a country, and that would lead the world to end in an all out war. Somehow the Otters still make the playoffs that year though.
The S15 draft saw the Copperheads and Butchers come to reality and also kept the league alive with some of the important users to come from that draft class. While a large amount of S18 is now inactive it did also provide several important job holders in the league, and some major players outside of the job holders. It is the loss of S22 though that I think is most game changing as that means the Dallas Birddogs, London Royals, Honolulu Hahalua, and Sarasota Sailfish never come to fruition.
Honestly based on the talk of it that I have heard from league veterans the league might not even exist if that decision is not made and that is an interesting thing to think about to be honest. I know many in the S22 class spent their quarantine basically in the league and where would that time have gone if not for the ISFL? This point task wants to talk about the league though and so I am going to conclude that if not for the r/NFL drafts that the league would have gone under before S25.
The epilogue to the story of the ISFL in-universe would be that it got bought out by a resurgent NFL and the teams fused with preexisting NFL teams. Unfortunately the fusion of the London Jaguars and Yellowknife Wraiths would lead to widespread rioting as the two international teams are forced to choose a country, and that would lead the world to end in an all out war. Somehow the Otters still make the playoffs that year though.
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