(S28) PT 3 - What If?

[ZootTX]

In case it isn’t obvious, the TX at the end of my user name stands for Texas, which is where I am from and have lived my entire life. This is how deciding to include that in my username changed the course of my career here! For those that don’t know or don’t remember, the Season 21 DSFL draft was enormous. As a Reddit draft during the beginning stages of quarantine, 271 players were created and were eligible to be drafted. In addition, two DSFL expansion teams, the Dallas Birddogs and London Royals, had just been added to the league. As not only a new player, but a new sim leaguer altogether, I was kind of overwhelmed and not a very attractive prospect. I believe I had a whopping 57 TPE on my DSFL draft card (and like 91 on my ISFL one.) In fact, only one team reached out to me during scouting: the Dallas Birddogs, and it was because they were a Texas team and I had TX at the end of my user name. Sure enough, in the 21st round of the draft, with the 161st pick, the Dallas Birddogs selected Zee Rechs. Had I not been drafted by such a great team, who knows what would have happened. Would I have gone IA? Maybe. But that’s not what happened, and here I am.

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