10-19-2021, 06:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-19-2021, 06:44 PM by Kyamprac. Edited 1 time in total.)
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I have talked many times about how much I love the Dallas Birddogs organization for a variety of reasons, citing specific names in all sorts of articles where we have been prompted to say nice things about the league. Despite that, there's always more to share and I love writing about them.. so here we go again on a nice Ultimus Week ramble.
The core group I really want to highlight is the DSFL Season 24 draft class for Dallas. At the time Lim and Steg were our GMs, and, while I think it's fairly well known I don't have much love for Steg these days, I do have to give him and Lim a pile of credit for listening to feedback from the war room and drafting this stellar group back in the day. This draft class set the stage for a long chain of succession leading up to today, helping to maintain a number of traditions and keep the Birddogs the amazing team it is over the course of 7 seasons since they joined the team. Each of the following individuals forms a "Mount Rushmore" of sorts, as they have all made huge contributions and a noteworthy mark on the team to date:
r0tzbua (Guy Fields)
I have sung the praises of r0tzbua many times on the forum, but I can never really say enough how much we appreciate everything he has done for Dallas. Our second pick in the season 24 draft (behind Madden, much to his chagrin) r0tz was mostly drafted for his dog, Finn (just kidding, but it did help his cause). He was also the first member of this class to become my co-GM shortly after Lim stepped down, at a bit of a tumultuous time when the team was undergoing a lot of change and we encountered some challenging people dynamics. But he stuck with it alongside me and continued to keep the team alive and well with the help of his co-GM Zoot long after I left. Aside from being ridiculously active and ready to help the team, he is also the reason Dallas moved on to the more modern brightly coloured branding we have today, and really helped to cultivate a lot of the culture the team developed in the "new" era of the Birddogs. After departing from GM, r0tz handed the reigns to Zoot who appointed this next amazing guy, Madden, as his co.
Asked Madden (aka Raylan Crowder)
Madden was the first pick Dallas made in the season 24 DSFL draft and is the one of the most recent members of this group to become GM of the Dallas Birddogs. Despite living in the future, he is continuously active in the Birddogs locker room and always finds ways to keep people engaged and talking about everything from haggis and meatballs to the rain in Scotland. Partially thanks to his daughter, he is even active in the locker room at times that most Europeans wouldn't be because I'm pretty sure he just never sleeps in the wee hours of the morning. He has always been a huge asset to the team in the war room and the locker room at large, and continues to mentor new dogs and support the old in his current role with the team. We have been so lucky to keep him around, especially as the other Scots that joined in this season seem to have mostly departed from the ISFL by now.
ReverendOReily (Dick Leaking)
I'm not going to lie, a good part of the reason the guys in the war room got excited about drafting Rev back in season 24 partially had to do with his player's name and the immature giggles everyone got out of it. Having said that, we couldn't have made a better pick here. Rev joined the Birddogs GM tree when Zoot stepped down and is currently co-GMing the team alongside Madden, and I don't think we could have asked for a better pairing. Anyone who knows Rev knows he's not only a smart and capable guy, but also one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet on the internet. He is a genuinely good person who has always brought great vibes to the locker room and proudly flown the Birddogs colours. Another longstanding contributor to the war room, there are no doubts in my mind that he will continue to hold the torch high when Madden departs and Dallas brings on another new GM. In short, this guy really "slaps".
zaynzk (aka Bob Roberts)
Zayn was a later pick for the Birddogs in this draft, and a bit of a flyer in some ways. There aren't even many comments on the draft board for him, but you wouldn't know it now as he also made a huge impact on the team (some that people view as positive or negative depending on which side of the Twitterverse they were on). He was probably most well known for running the team Twitter and stoking some controversy on there involving certain phallic rebrands and stoking old rivalries, but aside from that he was and continues to be super active and involved with the team. He still gets folks hyped up on game day, still helps to keep the locker room popping, and continues to support all Birddogs old and new as they move up from the DSFL to the big league. If he hadn't become a GM in the ISFL so early, he definitely would have joined the ranks of the "shadow dogs" (i.e. Dallas GMs) at some point earlier on.
Ironically, all of these users were so amazing that they were all called up very quickly after joining the team. Despite having only been on the roster a short time, they have dedicated oodles of time to making Dallas a better place to spend time in in the ISFL. They made it very easy for GMs of the past to step down and know with certainty that the team was in good hands.
I have talked many times about how much I love the Dallas Birddogs organization for a variety of reasons, citing specific names in all sorts of articles where we have been prompted to say nice things about the league. Despite that, there's always more to share and I love writing about them.. so here we go again on a nice Ultimus Week ramble.
The core group I really want to highlight is the DSFL Season 24 draft class for Dallas. At the time Lim and Steg were our GMs, and, while I think it's fairly well known I don't have much love for Steg these days, I do have to give him and Lim a pile of credit for listening to feedback from the war room and drafting this stellar group back in the day. This draft class set the stage for a long chain of succession leading up to today, helping to maintain a number of traditions and keep the Birddogs the amazing team it is over the course of 7 seasons since they joined the team. Each of the following individuals forms a "Mount Rushmore" of sorts, as they have all made huge contributions and a noteworthy mark on the team to date:
r0tzbua (Guy Fields)
I have sung the praises of r0tzbua many times on the forum, but I can never really say enough how much we appreciate everything he has done for Dallas. Our second pick in the season 24 draft (behind Madden, much to his chagrin) r0tz was mostly drafted for his dog, Finn (just kidding, but it did help his cause). He was also the first member of this class to become my co-GM shortly after Lim stepped down, at a bit of a tumultuous time when the team was undergoing a lot of change and we encountered some challenging people dynamics. But he stuck with it alongside me and continued to keep the team alive and well with the help of his co-GM Zoot long after I left. Aside from being ridiculously active and ready to help the team, he is also the reason Dallas moved on to the more modern brightly coloured branding we have today, and really helped to cultivate a lot of the culture the team developed in the "new" era of the Birddogs. After departing from GM, r0tz handed the reigns to Zoot who appointed this next amazing guy, Madden, as his co.
Asked Madden (aka Raylan Crowder)
Madden was the first pick Dallas made in the season 24 DSFL draft and is the one of the most recent members of this group to become GM of the Dallas Birddogs. Despite living in the future, he is continuously active in the Birddogs locker room and always finds ways to keep people engaged and talking about everything from haggis and meatballs to the rain in Scotland. Partially thanks to his daughter, he is even active in the locker room at times that most Europeans wouldn't be because I'm pretty sure he just never sleeps in the wee hours of the morning. He has always been a huge asset to the team in the war room and the locker room at large, and continues to mentor new dogs and support the old in his current role with the team. We have been so lucky to keep him around, especially as the other Scots that joined in this season seem to have mostly departed from the ISFL by now.
ReverendOReily (Dick Leaking)
I'm not going to lie, a good part of the reason the guys in the war room got excited about drafting Rev back in season 24 partially had to do with his player's name and the immature giggles everyone got out of it. Having said that, we couldn't have made a better pick here. Rev joined the Birddogs GM tree when Zoot stepped down and is currently co-GMing the team alongside Madden, and I don't think we could have asked for a better pairing. Anyone who knows Rev knows he's not only a smart and capable guy, but also one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet on the internet. He is a genuinely good person who has always brought great vibes to the locker room and proudly flown the Birddogs colours. Another longstanding contributor to the war room, there are no doubts in my mind that he will continue to hold the torch high when Madden departs and Dallas brings on another new GM. In short, this guy really "slaps".
zaynzk (aka Bob Roberts)
Zayn was a later pick for the Birddogs in this draft, and a bit of a flyer in some ways. There aren't even many comments on the draft board for him, but you wouldn't know it now as he also made a huge impact on the team (some that people view as positive or negative depending on which side of the Twitterverse they were on). He was probably most well known for running the team Twitter and stoking some controversy on there involving certain phallic rebrands and stoking old rivalries, but aside from that he was and continues to be super active and involved with the team. He still gets folks hyped up on game day, still helps to keep the locker room popping, and continues to support all Birddogs old and new as they move up from the DSFL to the big league. If he hadn't become a GM in the ISFL so early, he definitely would have joined the ranks of the "shadow dogs" (i.e. Dallas GMs) at some point earlier on.
Ironically, all of these users were so amazing that they were all called up very quickly after joining the team. Despite having only been on the roster a short time, they have dedicated oodles of time to making Dallas a better place to spend time in in the ISFL. They made it very easy for GMs of the past to step down and know with certainty that the team was in good hands.
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