(S31) PT 1 - End of a Decade

[JuOSu]

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[C9Van]

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[y2bobman]

There have been a fair few memorable moments over Burficts career so far and in another Sim he may be sittinf here with a few rings. But enough of that. I'd be tempted to say the very first season in the DSFL with the London Royals, where the Royala claimed Ultimini glory. But instead I'm going to opt for the following season.

London Royals lost several key players to ISFL callups which left Burfict as one of the second year pros to hold things together. And sure, the season ultimately ended in failure with the Royals unable to defend their title. But for Burfict, he relished being that main man having learnt so much from Domine and his performances throughout the season led to him being named both linebacker of the year and defensive player of the year. His stats that year were awesome. 139 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 11 sacks, 2 forced fumbles, an interception and 9 pass deflections. Burfict had arrived. He would leave London after that Ultimini loss on a a high, get on the plane to Arizona and not look back.  To this day he has not managed to repeat the 139 tackles, proud of that one for sure. And looking at Arizona now, so proud to play alongside a number of that London Royals team from S25, such a great bunch.

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[JPach]

Damn, This is my ninth season in the league. I guess I have a whole decade to look back on since I would've played my first DSFL season in Season 21. It's been quite a ride, I don't have many memories to look back on as a player but as a user I have a whole slew of memories. I suppose I'd like to take this time to go back to my initial rookie season and think about the reactions to my meme name LiterallyJust A. Hexagon, he was a king and shall always be treated as such. Everyone in the Tijuana Locker Room was so friendly and amazing. I'd like to thank @Jay_Doctor for getting me into the league, for that I hate and love you. I think my most memorable moment -which in this case I don't think is my favorite moment, but it is funny- is when I did my first stream for the ISFL and it was the Season 22 ISFL draft. Holy shit what an awful stream to do first. I clicked the button for like 4 hours that night. I also read probably 70 names in quick succession. That draft was also my draft, pick 48 for the New Orleans Second Line -doot doot-, so I was learning about how the stream worked in literal real time while also having to change through 4 different powerpoints. It was awful but in like a fun awful way. What a monster of a draft class and what a monster of a stream. I'd like to thank all the co-hosts for every single draft/awards stream I did past that for like 9 months, all those streams were scuffed but they were fun. 

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[Kotasa]

This season marks my 6th in the ISFL and I have to say I’m pretty excited for it. Rich Triplet has had a solid career so far, good but not yet great. I have two favorite moments, the first being the bonkers run that the Tijuana Luchadores had in the S25 season. A mediocre regular season, finishing but 6-8, some LR drama with a receiver who swapped his render to Antonio Brown on the raiders, spirits weren’t exactly at their high point. Despite being loaded with talent offensively we could not get it together, QB Mike Boss Jr. Threw for only 6 TDs in the regular season with 5 INTs to go with it. However I’ll never forget in the sim testing channel when @mithrandir said “We’re going to win the ultimini, I can feel it” We get to the playoffs and @CalvinGolladay had an idea for an offensive strat, it was away from what we normally did but tested pretty dang good. West Coast Best Coast baby, we run it and get an OT stealing TD against the Seawolves, @JBLAZE_THE_BOSS had 2 TDs one to MBC who threw a man off him and got an easy TD grab in OT. Then the ultimini where we put up the most points in ultimini history with 42, MBJ was Joe Flacco that season, mediocre regular season but ELITE post, though not all blame is on him for the tough season, weapons were called up and we moved more towards a run game. It was probably the highlight of my career just winning it with all the guys I came into the league with. People I consider great friends like @209tacos @Pat @deadlunatic! and other people like @GuitarMaster116 (you know ily) I’m now GM of Tijuana and while I’ve hoped to recreate this experience for my rookies, it has yet to happen. Despite this we hope this is the year we can capture trophy number nine and recreate that experience I had almost a year ago.

[IceBear32]

As a season 28 player I caught the very end of the decade. The first thing I want to say is how excited I am for this next decade of ISFL. I have really enjoyed my short stint here and hope future seasons are as fun as the ones I’ve been apart of so far.

On the player side of things I look forward to HON and its continued growth. Starting this decade out 2-0 makes this even better. My player was fortunate enough to win a championship at the DSFL level and hopes to replicate this success at the ISFL level.

On the user side of things. I feel the I have been able to set myself up to be a key member of the ISFL. I was able to join multiple war rooms, began a media serious with my fellow teammate, and was able to land a DSFL GM position after learning some of the ropes with the Would Federation Cup. With some of this experience I am very hopeful to make this a very successful decade for the Minnesota Greyducks and hope that I can continue some of the great things the GMs before us set in place.

Most important goal of this next decade for me is now being able to develop some of the new users to go on and do successful things, while also getting a few more Ultimini for Minnesota!


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[Tesla]

Agent Tesla: Alright well this is a tough task as they are asking what our most memorable or favorite moment was in these last ten seasons. The ten seasons we have been in the league for given we were around in S21 at the DSFL level at least. What would you say is your most memorable moment Magnus?

Magnus Rikiya: Individual moment it would have to be beating the Dallas Birddogs in week fourteen to make the playoffs my rookie season. That was one of the teams I was most attached to overall and it was my first time making the playoffs in the big leagues. Those moments are magical you know?

Agent Tesla: A fair choice! If I had to name my most memorable it would probably be you getting selected second overall in the massive S22 ISFL draft class. It is particularly memorable to me as the presentation broke trying to switch to your slide, and while one commentator wanted to continue praising us another pointed out that everybody already knew our greatness. Now for your favorite moment from the last ten seasons?

Magnus Rikiya: Scoring that defensive touchdown last season. Being only the second defensive tackle to do that at the ISFL level is something special and I have to be honest I am especially glad I got to do it last season. Wear and tear is beginning to catch up to me, but that proved that I still got it. How about you Tesla?

Agent Tesla: I have had so many happy moments in this league that picking a favorite is incredibly hard to do. Could easily go with the day you were drafted to Norfolk as that is what truly started our career, shadow baby hour, the day I got married as that was a special occasion in my life, the day you were drafted by New Orleans which solidified our career, the day we dunked on Teyon, that start of free agency which led to an outpouring of interest, or most recently the day I was offered a new partnership to become a general manager of the Colorado Yeti. It is hard to choose.

Note: At this point in time the interview was interrupted by Ace Pitcher of the Detroit Demons Molly Mitchell delivering a whispered message to Agent Tesla.

Agent Tesla: Scratch all of that! Sloth O'Clock in Rookie Discord wins the day.

Magnus Rikiya: Really? That hour or so where people posted a bunch of Sloth pictures is your favorite moment in the last ten seasons? Not the time I made pro bowl, the time we got every other member of the defensive line up for their positional awards, or your various podcast shout outs. A strange one off incident in the Rookie Discord from before either of us was really active?

Agent Tesla: Well at least for the purposes of this point task yes.

Magnus Rikiya: Well that is all folks! Thanks for joining us!

Agent Tesla: I will second all of that. Thank you so much and we hope you have a nice day!

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[AW13]

I think this one is an easy one to talk about because my last player played his prime seasons during the last decade and I have some very fond memories from the career of San Jose Sabercat wide receiver Deondre Thomas Fox. During Season 24 and Season 25, Deondre Thomas Fox was the number one wide receiver for the franchise where I spent the career of my first two players in the International Sim Football League. It was more seasons than that of course so why do I just bring up these two seasons in particular? Well, these seasons are the seasons when the San Jose Sabercats broke through and won back to back Ultimus titles and were on top of the league for two straight seasons and well...broke minds and hearts in the process of doing so! The Sabercats I would say were never the crowd favorite in both of their titles or at least the betting favorites so the fact that San Jose came out on top for two straight seasons is pretty remarkable. My player, Thomas-Fox was never great in the title games in general but he had some big moments in the playoffs whether it be on kick returns. It was amazing being part of the team that won 2 straight! I also can still say that San Jose has never won an Ultimus in this league without me on their team and now have 3 Ultimus titles myself having one with Christ and then 2 with Deondre Thomas Fox. He was not the best receiver during his time in the league but he was the number one receiver and kick return option for a back to back Ultimus winning team and that is pretty cool!

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[Muford]

Easily, without a doubt, one of my favorite things over these past 10 seasons was rebuilding the Chicago Butchers with my main squeeze @bayley. While we were never able to win a championship, we were able to right the wrongs that had happened and turn Chicago into a competitive team again, bringing in camaraderie and just al around *hopefully* changing the outlook of the Chicago Butchers. @Bayley and I took over the team in Season 21/22 and were able to get a lot of like-minded individuals, that understood the team was in the shitter and got them to stand by and grow and compete with us. We really kind of peaked in Season 26/27 but that was okay, because it was something that Chicago needed to get out of that horrendous trash heap of a issue that the state of the team was in before we took over. I do not think there are a lot of things I would go back and change with such a team, but I am positive that @TheCC and Bayley will continue to steer the ship in the right direction. I am hoping that within the next 10 seasons we are able to finally bring a trophy home to Chicago where the fans deserve it more then anything, dealing with all the shit we have been through.


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