09-16-2021, 04:59 PM
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This off-season the London Royals decided to go on a retreat to help bond together and become more of a family. Unfortunately, something went wrong, but it turned out to work out better than expected. This coming season will be London's best in a while due to this bonding experience. Do you want to hear the story?
It started when we decided we would take my boat out for a weekend retreat. We didn't have a plan on where we were going, we just said we would ride out into the ocean and stop when we wanted. On the second day, we were all having fun on the boat and throwing the football around, playing some pool, going in the pool, and even having some delicious buffet food. I put the boat in autodrive and came down to have fun with the team. I gathered Parm, Savior, Toucan, Cedric, Tater, Penne, Donkey, Cheese, and Fireball for a little 5-on-5. Everyone else was swimming in the pool or relaxing in the hot tub. We were all playing around having fun when Lucid came up to Parm and whispered “ Parm, we have a problem up deck”. So Parm yells over to me “ Yo, B-Dub, we have a problem up deck. You should go check it out!” I run up to the controls and see that we are running out of gas. I yell down to the team that we are almost out of gas and we need to find an island so I could fill it up with my reserve gas tanks I have. We all keep a lookout for one and after 15 min, we see one appearing in the distance. “ Land Ho!!!” I hear Fireball scream. “ I've always wanted to say that”. So I steer toward the island and 15 min later we arrive and I beach the boat. “This island seems deserted, everyone go down to below deck and grab a gas tank” I say. We all walk down and before I can even get to the door to get down I hear someone yell “ We have a problem!!” I run down to see what the problem is and see everyone standing around an empty storage room. I yell at myself “ HOW DID I FORGET THE RESERVE GAS TANKS!!!” . Sebster, being the smart GM he is, said” Why don't we just hang out on this island for a while while we wait for some help?” So we all grab what we can from the boat and head onto the island to scope it out and see if there was anything on it. Between the 28 of us, we were able to scout out the whole island in 5 hours and when we all came back we reported that there is no one here, the island is deserted. So since we all thought we would be here for a while, we decided to name the island. We all got together and came up with a few ideas on what to name it. We decided between Londoptrica, BangBangladesh, DOLPopulous, and The Royal Kingdom. We all voted and came to a decision to name it DOLPopulous. By the time we were done with all this it was dark out and we were all a little tired, so we decided to make a campfire. We toasted marshmallows, told each other some ghost stories, and then went back on the boat to sleep. When we woke up the next morning, we all went out on the beach for a mini tournament of 5-on-5. There were 4 teams of 5 and then an all time kicker, Dorrnob, and then our 2 coaches who coached the 2 teams playing the game at the time. We were all having fun and when it came to championship time it was around noon and we were all hungry. We went back to the boat to look for some food but found out that we didn't pack enough for more than 3 days because we were supposed to be getting back to London this morning. We decided we would have to go hunting for some food which excited Rocky Rhoads the most because he loves chicken, especially shredded. We gather all the things we could use as weapons to go hunting and bring them back to the beach to go over. We look over the items gathered and see some fishing hook poles, pocket knives, and even a few fire extinguishers. We look at eachother and agree that we need better, so we gather string, sticks, rope, and rocks. We decide to make our own weapons with all this and in the end we have some homemade spears, and even some bows and arrows. Together with the pocket knives and fishing hook poles and now these we have enough to go out hunting. A few hours later we all come back and find out why we are football plates and not hunters. But then we see Tater come back with Penne and they have a couple rabbits, some chickens, and even a deer. The rest of us combined for only 5 chicken, 2 rabbits, 4 fish, and some berries. But what we didn't realize when we came back was that the boat had drifted out into the sea and was half underwater. Cheese screamed “ THE BOAT!!!!” and we all turned around to see it out there. “ Well there goes our supplies and shelter” I say. We all gather around and try to decide what to do and decide to go get some supplies from the boat and build some shelter. Wea ll swim out to the boat except for Doornob, cause he can't swim, and collect as many supplies as we can before heading back to shore. We get back and gather all the supplies and start building. We built some makeshift huts, and some more spears for hunting. Little did we know that we are not good at building huts. By the time we have everything set up, it's time to sleep, so we get into our huts and I hear Fireball say ” I call dibs on top bunk! ” So I decided to not sleep in that bunk cause I don't want to get crushed. The next morning we all wake up and see that our Huts and beds have fallen apart and are destroyed. “ Well we need to build better huts, these ones were horrible.” I yell to Fireball to come and help fix the houses while we send Tater to go hunt for some more food. About 2 hours later Tater comes back with his meat and berries and Fireball and I are finishing up the houses, correctly this time. We cook the food up and then chow down on it all. We make sure to leave the chicken and shred it up for Rocky to eat. After we finish eating we decide to play the championship. It's Team Pasta, which is Parm, Penne, Rocky, Cedric, and Cheese against Team Animal, which is Toucan, Me, Donkey, Savior, and Tater. After an hour of the game it is 27-24 Team Pasta is winning. Toucan takes the snap from Donkey and goes through his reads. He sees Penne trying to get by Donkey for a sack, he sees Parm covering Tater, He sees Rocky covering over the middle, he sees Cheese covering Savior, and Cedric covering me. So he rolls out and throws it up to me as I'm trying to pull away from Cedric after the double move. I dive out for the ball and try to keep my toes in bounds in the back of the end zone. Fireball, the referee for the game runs over and sees if i kept control of the ball. He pauses for a second before throwing his hands up showing TD!! Everyone except Team Pasta screams in excitement as I run towards Toucan for the Chest bump. “ Great throw man” I say after I catch my breath. After we all settle down we play a game of manhunt and im it first. We were all running around chasing each other and having fun when we came across a big cave on the side of the mountain. Went back to the huts and grabbed some flashlights so we could explore the cave. We were in there for 20 minutes before we saw a pack of wolves. They stared us down, focusing mainly on tater and Fireball. All of a sudden they spring towards us and we start running away. We tried to throw our spearsat them while running away but were only about 50% successful and only killed 2 of the 5 wolves. Tater turned and shot down 2 others before he ran out of arrows. We all ran as fast as we could out of the cave but the wolf was getting closer. With one leap he jumped on top of Fireball and started clawing at him. Tater leaped into action and started to wrestle the wolf down. Tater clawed back and bit the wolf's leg. Soon after the wolf gave up and ran away, so we turned our attention to Fireball, who was lying on the ground moaning from pain. Tater carried Fireball back to base on his back so we could take a look at his scratches and try to get them to heal so that if we ever do get off this island he will be fine for the games. Just as we were getting back to base we heard a helicopter flying overhead. We try to call for it and wave our hands to get their attention but they just keep flying away from us.. “ We have to make something that will catch someone's eye if that ever happens again” Lennay Kekua says. So after we take a look at Fireball's scratches and put some ointment on them, we gather as many rocks and stones as we can and lay them out in the sand on the beach. We tried to make it say “ HELP US '' but we are not entirely sure that's what it actually looks like. We went back into the woods for some berries because we had a lot of meat recently and wanted something else to eat. “ How much longer do you think we will be here?” I hear Sebster ask Lucid. “ IDK, But the preseason is starting in a week and we haven't even done much training camp.” Lucid replies. I come up to them and propose that since we don't know when we will get out we should do a “ training camp” here. Seb and Lucid look at eachother then turn back to me and nod in unicorn. “ That sounds like it could work,” Lucid says. After we gather the berries and have dinner, Lucid calls a team meeting on the beach. “ Starting tomorrow we will be doing a mini training camp here on the beach. We don't know when we will be saved from this island but we want to be prepared for whenever that is, so we can get on the field and not stink it up. Do you understand?” “ Yes sir!” we all yell together. We have a campfire and roast some rabbit for a little post dinner snack, then all gather back into the huts for the night. When everyone is asleep I hear Parm whisper to me “ Hey B-Dub, do you think we are going to miss the preseason because we are stuck here?” I think hard about this before whispering back “ I'm sure everything will work out and we will be rescued soon. If it takes till the day before the first game then that's ok because that's why we are doing our camp here.” We both fall asleep and rest peacefully till next morning when at 6:30 we hear a loud whistle. “EVERYONE OUT OF BED AND ONTO THE BEACH, NOW!!” Seb yells. Everyone, shocked from fear, rushes out of the huts and assembles in a line on the beach. “ So, we don't have much equipment to do this, in fact all we have is a few footballs, and some cones, So we will have to make do and make more.” We all gather around and grab some sticks, and stones to make some boundary lines and markers. We start out with some first team offence against first team defence mini drives, then we go to 1-on-1s with WR vs DB and DL vs OL. Lucid calls for a huddle and tells us “ Alright guys, great work today, I've got one more thing then we will be done for the day. Let's do some catch in traffic and contested catch drills.” He has a WR and DB stand together 15 yards away from the QB and has the QB throw it up for the WR. We do this for another 15 min before Seb and Lucid call us in to end it for the day. After mini camp we all decide we should go swimming in the ocean since we haven't done that yet and it's a nice way to cool down after a long practice. This same thing happens the next few days until there are only 2 days left till our first preseason game and the team is starting to get worried we won't get back in time. “ Our first game is on Sunday and it’s Friday right now, '' Cheese says after practice. “ What are we going to do if we can't make it to the game on time? Or even worse, we are here for weeks and we miss the regular season!!” The team is very stressed and it shows during practice. The last practice we were not playing too well and you could tell we were all worried. “ I have faith that people are looking for us guys, don't worry, we will make it.” I say even though I'm starting to worry too. That night after we get out of the ocean and eat, we see a boat driving by way out into the distance. “ A BOAT!!!!” Parm screams as he points out into the horizon. “ Quick, get their attention!” I yell. We all search around for something to use to get the boats attention, but they drive off before we can get them. “ We need to be prepared in case something like that happens again.” Fireball says “ How about we have a big fire so at night they can see the light and it will draw them over?” We all gather sticks and wood and pile it in a big pile before lighting it. By then it is late and we all go to bed. We are woken up at around 4am by Seb and Lucid screaming. We all ran out of the huts and instantly saw what they were screaming. Our fire pile spread into the woods and now the whole woods was on fire. “ WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!” Cedric yells, “ This is not good for my assmar” Fireball says. We are all freaking out and running around crazy, until we hear a helicopter flying over us. It lowers down and when the captain sees us he says “We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?” We shook our heads no and told him what happened. After we were done explaining he called us a big boat for us to ride back home with our stuff. “ This whole stranded on an island thing may have helped us in a way guys'' Seb tells us on the boat “ This was a big bonding experience I think and it seemed like everyone had each other's backs and really got to know eachother better.” We all rode back home pondering that idea. Was this whole thing actually good for us? Are we all coming out of this better than we were going in? Will this help push us for our revenge season? When we get back home the team is so happy to finally be back on land that is not sand and grass. We all rush back to our homes for a nap before a last minute full contact practice the night before the first preseason game.
So, yeah, this offseason was a crazy one for everyone here in London. But hopefully it does turn out well and all those questions we had on the boat get answered. This weekend bonding experience turned crazy fast but we all handled it well. NOW IT'S TIME FOR FOOTBALL AND WE ARE READY FOR THIS REVENGE SEASON!!!! Bang Bang Lion Gang!!
It started when we decided we would take my boat out for a weekend retreat. We didn't have a plan on where we were going, we just said we would ride out into the ocean and stop when we wanted. On the second day, we were all having fun on the boat and throwing the football around, playing some pool, going in the pool, and even having some delicious buffet food. I put the boat in autodrive and came down to have fun with the team. I gathered Parm, Savior, Toucan, Cedric, Tater, Penne, Donkey, Cheese, and Fireball for a little 5-on-5. Everyone else was swimming in the pool or relaxing in the hot tub. We were all playing around having fun when Lucid came up to Parm and whispered “ Parm, we have a problem up deck”. So Parm yells over to me “ Yo, B-Dub, we have a problem up deck. You should go check it out!” I run up to the controls and see that we are running out of gas. I yell down to the team that we are almost out of gas and we need to find an island so I could fill it up with my reserve gas tanks I have. We all keep a lookout for one and after 15 min, we see one appearing in the distance. “ Land Ho!!!” I hear Fireball scream. “ I've always wanted to say that”. So I steer toward the island and 15 min later we arrive and I beach the boat. “This island seems deserted, everyone go down to below deck and grab a gas tank” I say. We all walk down and before I can even get to the door to get down I hear someone yell “ We have a problem!!” I run down to see what the problem is and see everyone standing around an empty storage room. I yell at myself “ HOW DID I FORGET THE RESERVE GAS TANKS!!!” . Sebster, being the smart GM he is, said” Why don't we just hang out on this island for a while while we wait for some help?” So we all grab what we can from the boat and head onto the island to scope it out and see if there was anything on it. Between the 28 of us, we were able to scout out the whole island in 5 hours and when we all came back we reported that there is no one here, the island is deserted. So since we all thought we would be here for a while, we decided to name the island. We all got together and came up with a few ideas on what to name it. We decided between Londoptrica, BangBangladesh, DOLPopulous, and The Royal Kingdom. We all voted and came to a decision to name it DOLPopulous. By the time we were done with all this it was dark out and we were all a little tired, so we decided to make a campfire. We toasted marshmallows, told each other some ghost stories, and then went back on the boat to sleep. When we woke up the next morning, we all went out on the beach for a mini tournament of 5-on-5. There were 4 teams of 5 and then an all time kicker, Dorrnob, and then our 2 coaches who coached the 2 teams playing the game at the time. We were all having fun and when it came to championship time it was around noon and we were all hungry. We went back to the boat to look for some food but found out that we didn't pack enough for more than 3 days because we were supposed to be getting back to London this morning. We decided we would have to go hunting for some food which excited Rocky Rhoads the most because he loves chicken, especially shredded. We gather all the things we could use as weapons to go hunting and bring them back to the beach to go over. We look over the items gathered and see some fishing hook poles, pocket knives, and even a few fire extinguishers. We look at eachother and agree that we need better, so we gather string, sticks, rope, and rocks. We decide to make our own weapons with all this and in the end we have some homemade spears, and even some bows and arrows. Together with the pocket knives and fishing hook poles and now these we have enough to go out hunting. A few hours later we all come back and find out why we are football plates and not hunters. But then we see Tater come back with Penne and they have a couple rabbits, some chickens, and even a deer. The rest of us combined for only 5 chicken, 2 rabbits, 4 fish, and some berries. But what we didn't realize when we came back was that the boat had drifted out into the sea and was half underwater. Cheese screamed “ THE BOAT!!!!” and we all turned around to see it out there. “ Well there goes our supplies and shelter” I say. We all gather around and try to decide what to do and decide to go get some supplies from the boat and build some shelter. Wea ll swim out to the boat except for Doornob, cause he can't swim, and collect as many supplies as we can before heading back to shore. We get back and gather all the supplies and start building. We built some makeshift huts, and some more spears for hunting. Little did we know that we are not good at building huts. By the time we have everything set up, it's time to sleep, so we get into our huts and I hear Fireball say ” I call dibs on top bunk! ” So I decided to not sleep in that bunk cause I don't want to get crushed. The next morning we all wake up and see that our Huts and beds have fallen apart and are destroyed. “ Well we need to build better huts, these ones were horrible.” I yell to Fireball to come and help fix the houses while we send Tater to go hunt for some more food. About 2 hours later Tater comes back with his meat and berries and Fireball and I are finishing up the houses, correctly this time. We cook the food up and then chow down on it all. We make sure to leave the chicken and shred it up for Rocky to eat. After we finish eating we decide to play the championship. It's Team Pasta, which is Parm, Penne, Rocky, Cedric, and Cheese against Team Animal, which is Toucan, Me, Donkey, Savior, and Tater. After an hour of the game it is 27-24 Team Pasta is winning. Toucan takes the snap from Donkey and goes through his reads. He sees Penne trying to get by Donkey for a sack, he sees Parm covering Tater, He sees Rocky covering over the middle, he sees Cheese covering Savior, and Cedric covering me. So he rolls out and throws it up to me as I'm trying to pull away from Cedric after the double move. I dive out for the ball and try to keep my toes in bounds in the back of the end zone. Fireball, the referee for the game runs over and sees if i kept control of the ball. He pauses for a second before throwing his hands up showing TD!! Everyone except Team Pasta screams in excitement as I run towards Toucan for the Chest bump. “ Great throw man” I say after I catch my breath. After we all settle down we play a game of manhunt and im it first. We were all running around chasing each other and having fun when we came across a big cave on the side of the mountain. Went back to the huts and grabbed some flashlights so we could explore the cave. We were in there for 20 minutes before we saw a pack of wolves. They stared us down, focusing mainly on tater and Fireball. All of a sudden they spring towards us and we start running away. We tried to throw our spearsat them while running away but were only about 50% successful and only killed 2 of the 5 wolves. Tater turned and shot down 2 others before he ran out of arrows. We all ran as fast as we could out of the cave but the wolf was getting closer. With one leap he jumped on top of Fireball and started clawing at him. Tater leaped into action and started to wrestle the wolf down. Tater clawed back and bit the wolf's leg. Soon after the wolf gave up and ran away, so we turned our attention to Fireball, who was lying on the ground moaning from pain. Tater carried Fireball back to base on his back so we could take a look at his scratches and try to get them to heal so that if we ever do get off this island he will be fine for the games. Just as we were getting back to base we heard a helicopter flying overhead. We try to call for it and wave our hands to get their attention but they just keep flying away from us.. “ We have to make something that will catch someone's eye if that ever happens again” Lennay Kekua says. So after we take a look at Fireball's scratches and put some ointment on them, we gather as many rocks and stones as we can and lay them out in the sand on the beach. We tried to make it say “ HELP US '' but we are not entirely sure that's what it actually looks like. We went back into the woods for some berries because we had a lot of meat recently and wanted something else to eat. “ How much longer do you think we will be here?” I hear Sebster ask Lucid. “ IDK, But the preseason is starting in a week and we haven't even done much training camp.” Lucid replies. I come up to them and propose that since we don't know when we will get out we should do a “ training camp” here. Seb and Lucid look at eachother then turn back to me and nod in unicorn. “ That sounds like it could work,” Lucid says. After we gather the berries and have dinner, Lucid calls a team meeting on the beach. “ Starting tomorrow we will be doing a mini training camp here on the beach. We don't know when we will be saved from this island but we want to be prepared for whenever that is, so we can get on the field and not stink it up. Do you understand?” “ Yes sir!” we all yell together. We have a campfire and roast some rabbit for a little post dinner snack, then all gather back into the huts for the night. When everyone is asleep I hear Parm whisper to me “ Hey B-Dub, do you think we are going to miss the preseason because we are stuck here?” I think hard about this before whispering back “ I'm sure everything will work out and we will be rescued soon. If it takes till the day before the first game then that's ok because that's why we are doing our camp here.” We both fall asleep and rest peacefully till next morning when at 6:30 we hear a loud whistle. “EVERYONE OUT OF BED AND ONTO THE BEACH, NOW!!” Seb yells. Everyone, shocked from fear, rushes out of the huts and assembles in a line on the beach. “ So, we don't have much equipment to do this, in fact all we have is a few footballs, and some cones, So we will have to make do and make more.” We all gather around and grab some sticks, and stones to make some boundary lines and markers. We start out with some first team offence against first team defence mini drives, then we go to 1-on-1s with WR vs DB and DL vs OL. Lucid calls for a huddle and tells us “ Alright guys, great work today, I've got one more thing then we will be done for the day. Let's do some catch in traffic and contested catch drills.” He has a WR and DB stand together 15 yards away from the QB and has the QB throw it up for the WR. We do this for another 15 min before Seb and Lucid call us in to end it for the day. After mini camp we all decide we should go swimming in the ocean since we haven't done that yet and it's a nice way to cool down after a long practice. This same thing happens the next few days until there are only 2 days left till our first preseason game and the team is starting to get worried we won't get back in time. “ Our first game is on Sunday and it’s Friday right now, '' Cheese says after practice. “ What are we going to do if we can't make it to the game on time? Or even worse, we are here for weeks and we miss the regular season!!” The team is very stressed and it shows during practice. The last practice we were not playing too well and you could tell we were all worried. “ I have faith that people are looking for us guys, don't worry, we will make it.” I say even though I'm starting to worry too. That night after we get out of the ocean and eat, we see a boat driving by way out into the distance. “ A BOAT!!!!” Parm screams as he points out into the horizon. “ Quick, get their attention!” I yell. We all search around for something to use to get the boats attention, but they drive off before we can get them. “ We need to be prepared in case something like that happens again.” Fireball says “ How about we have a big fire so at night they can see the light and it will draw them over?” We all gather sticks and wood and pile it in a big pile before lighting it. By then it is late and we all go to bed. We are woken up at around 4am by Seb and Lucid screaming. We all ran out of the huts and instantly saw what they were screaming. Our fire pile spread into the woods and now the whole woods was on fire. “ WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!” Cedric yells, “ This is not good for my assmar” Fireball says. We are all freaking out and running around crazy, until we hear a helicopter flying over us. It lowers down and when the captain sees us he says “We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?” We shook our heads no and told him what happened. After we were done explaining he called us a big boat for us to ride back home with our stuff. “ This whole stranded on an island thing may have helped us in a way guys'' Seb tells us on the boat “ This was a big bonding experience I think and it seemed like everyone had each other's backs and really got to know eachother better.” We all rode back home pondering that idea. Was this whole thing actually good for us? Are we all coming out of this better than we were going in? Will this help push us for our revenge season? When we get back home the team is so happy to finally be back on land that is not sand and grass. We all rush back to our homes for a nap before a last minute full contact practice the night before the first preseason game.
So, yeah, this offseason was a crazy one for everyone here in London. But hopefully it does turn out well and all those questions we had on the boat get answered. This weekend bonding experience turned crazy fast but we all handled it well. NOW IT'S TIME FOR FOOTBALL AND WE ARE READY FOR THIS REVENGE SEASON!!!! Bang Bang Lion Gang!!
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