12-13-2021, 03:38 PM
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Tier 1.3 - Coyote Rushmore 2.0
I'm too new to know who deserves a place on the Mount Rushmore of the Kansas City Coyotes, but having joined during a down-period this year, with a huge need for sparking life back into the team, I've watched one or two people earn their places on the new monument that will be made to celebrate this new generation of Coyotes.
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I should preface this by repeating my ignorance of the history of KCC, and mean no disrespect to those who have come before and surely deserve to be one of the faces of the history of KCC.
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Having felt lost when I first joined the ISFL as a prospect, and then overwhelmed and under-educated after I was waived, there were a couple of weeks when I was wondering what the hell I was doing putting time into this game.
Things only got worse when I heard the draft class was pretty small, yet still was drafted as the 3rd DE and 4th DL off the board. I had tried my best, spent way too much time reading rules, and done everything in the beginners manual, yet still missed out on TPE and fell behind several others in a position I was told isn't even popular.
I accepted my new team cautiously, knowing I hadn't done enough to show how excited I actually was for this game.
"Hey, we were excited you fell to us" were the first words I got from @firstfray, my new GM. He was just being nice, of course, right? He got the 3rd best DE and 4th best DL on the board, not exactly something to be excited about, was it? Well, within 24 hours he invited me into the War Room, asking if I wanted to participate in how the team is run. Wait, what? He actually has use for me?
So I joined the War Room. I'm on a team less than a day, and chatting about what we can do to make the team better. No forceful push to max TPE, no pressure to "stand out" and get noticed in a crowded chat, just a simple one on one conversation about how the team works, what I can do to help, and general advice on getting on well in the ISFL in general. The kind of thing that makes a new player feel welcome, needed, and part of the team. There was an openness and desire to include me in the team that made everything that followed come easy.
But I tell a small lie, it wasn't one on one for long. Or at all, really. Immediately, once the initial how-do-you-do with FirstFray was done, another name popped up, immediately offering support, advice, and general active conversation. @TheCC was this name who was just there, for reasons I didn't get at first. Not a member of the team in any capacity I was aware of, he was just there for some reason. Not a player, not a GM, not even an alumni from what I could tell. Just another person in the war room.
What he was doing became clear immediately. He was helping. While such a small and simple word, "help" can mean a lot, and I promise you, what he was (and is) doing means a lot to KCC as a team, and me as a new player.
Jump to two weeks later, and the most ridiculous thing in the world happens. I'm offered the role of co-GM. By the tutelage of both FF and CC, I had figured out how to max my player, my bank account, my contributions to the team. And now here they were ready to help me once again learn more, and once again feel like a valued member of the team. You just can't ask for more than that in this little sports fantasy world we've made together.
So while I certainly will not be erasing the old faces of Coyote Rushmore, I will be climbing to the biggest cliff-side I can find, taking out my hammer and chisel, and starting a brand new Coyote Rushmore 2.0, with the welcoming faces of both FirstFray and TheCC the first to be etched out.
I'm too new to know who deserves a place on the Mount Rushmore of the Kansas City Coyotes, but having joined during a down-period this year, with a huge need for sparking life back into the team, I've watched one or two people earn their places on the new monument that will be made to celebrate this new generation of Coyotes.
-
I should preface this by repeating my ignorance of the history of KCC, and mean no disrespect to those who have come before and surely deserve to be one of the faces of the history of KCC.
-
Having felt lost when I first joined the ISFL as a prospect, and then overwhelmed and under-educated after I was waived, there were a couple of weeks when I was wondering what the hell I was doing putting time into this game.
Things only got worse when I heard the draft class was pretty small, yet still was drafted as the 3rd DE and 4th DL off the board. I had tried my best, spent way too much time reading rules, and done everything in the beginners manual, yet still missed out on TPE and fell behind several others in a position I was told isn't even popular.
I accepted my new team cautiously, knowing I hadn't done enough to show how excited I actually was for this game.
"Hey, we were excited you fell to us" were the first words I got from @firstfray, my new GM. He was just being nice, of course, right? He got the 3rd best DE and 4th best DL on the board, not exactly something to be excited about, was it? Well, within 24 hours he invited me into the War Room, asking if I wanted to participate in how the team is run. Wait, what? He actually has use for me?
So I joined the War Room. I'm on a team less than a day, and chatting about what we can do to make the team better. No forceful push to max TPE, no pressure to "stand out" and get noticed in a crowded chat, just a simple one on one conversation about how the team works, what I can do to help, and general advice on getting on well in the ISFL in general. The kind of thing that makes a new player feel welcome, needed, and part of the team. There was an openness and desire to include me in the team that made everything that followed come easy.
But I tell a small lie, it wasn't one on one for long. Or at all, really. Immediately, once the initial how-do-you-do with FirstFray was done, another name popped up, immediately offering support, advice, and general active conversation. @TheCC was this name who was just there, for reasons I didn't get at first. Not a member of the team in any capacity I was aware of, he was just there for some reason. Not a player, not a GM, not even an alumni from what I could tell. Just another person in the war room.
What he was doing became clear immediately. He was helping. While such a small and simple word, "help" can mean a lot, and I promise you, what he was (and is) doing means a lot to KCC as a team, and me as a new player.
Jump to two weeks later, and the most ridiculous thing in the world happens. I'm offered the role of co-GM. By the tutelage of both FF and CC, I had figured out how to max my player, my bank account, my contributions to the team. And now here they were ready to help me once again learn more, and once again feel like a valued member of the team. You just can't ask for more than that in this little sports fantasy world we've made together.
So while I certainly will not be erasing the old faces of Coyote Rushmore, I will be climbing to the biggest cliff-side I can find, taking out my hammer and chisel, and starting a brand new Coyote Rushmore 2.0, with the welcoming faces of both FirstFray and TheCC the first to be etched out.
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