It's the eleventh hour just before the trade deadline, and Chicago has just agreed to a trade with Arizona. The Butchers will send their elite offensive lineman, Julio Jones, to the Outlaws in exchange for some additional draft capital in the next offseason. It's the second move of this nature that the Butchers have made this season, having previously shuttled their best secondary player in Tyron Shields to the Berlin Fire Salamanders for a 3rd round draft pick. The moves are a signal to the rest of the league that the Butchers are in decline, their championship window having closed. Tensions are high during practice--some players wonder if they will be the next to go, while others privately grumble about how they want to play for a winning team. The team is scheduled to finish the remainder of the season on the road, with a losing record looking more and more likely. After being approached by the coaching staff to help smooth things over with the rest of the team, Juan Domine can think of no player better suited to the task than longtime veteran Tree Gelbman. After nine seasons in the ISFL, all of them with Chicago, Gelbman has announced her intentions to retire at the end of the season. This somber realization lends gravity to her words. She reminds the team of how poorly the team was performing when she was a rookie and how they banded together to right the ship. Eventually the trade deadline passes, and no further changes are made to the roster. Domine's thoughts drift to his rookie season, when the team had just finished with the worst record in the ISFL. More specifically, he thinks of legendary Butchers LB Mike Hockhertz. Hockhertz was in his prime when the team was at his lowest, yet he still performed to the best of his ability, putting together an incredibly prolific career as one of the best tacklers in the game. It seemed that Domine would be headed in a similar direction. What would his legacy be?
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