(S30) PT 4 - Tough Loss

[Thor]

While we haven't had any emotional over time losses as the prompt has suggested, there are definitely some rivalries in the Developmental Simulation Football League. Though over the recent seasons they seem to have mellowed down a lot, it's hard to ever fully move beyond a rivalry that exists within your division, especially when teams have had to coexist in that space over a long period of time. Based on that I'd say that the biggest rival for Bondi Beach Buccaneers is with the Tijuana Luchadores. Having lost both encounters with the Luchadores this season, the Buccaneers appear to be the underdog in that competition at this time. Of course, Ken Oath doesn't get bogged down in petty rivalries and tries to always keep a positive attitude, bringing up his team mates around him at the same time. After a big loss, Ken will usually shout the team dinner and make some grand motivational speech to try and keep the team in high spirits. What he doesn't realise is that not only does most of the team blatantly ignore this, it has frequently become the topic of discussion in the locker room when Ken "talks out his ass" after a loss again. The speech still does it's job, in a weird roundabout way as the team moves on from focusing on the loss, to his speech.