09-09-2019, 10:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2019, 10:48 AM by goodvsevil1275.)
To the League Head Office,
I have had to sit here and endure this train wreck long enough. I have been a fan of this league for 17 long years and I can say with unequivocal doubt, the NSFL has gone to absolute shit. This isn't football anymore. You look at the progress of the league and what has changed and thanks to your rules and your regulations and your backwards beliefs, you've broken the sport that we all know and love. It looks like a completely different game than it did in this league's inaugural season. Back then you defense and hard nosed football. You had men on the field who weren't afraid to hit or get dirty in the trenches. What I saw last season was a catastrophe of epic proportions as I realized the recent seasons weren't anomalies. They are the new normal.
Back in my day, you didn't see these rooty tooty quarterbacks dropping back to pass 600 times in a game while barely getting their jersey dirty. Back then, if you dropped back 600 times you were running a flight risk of a hospital visit. Back in season two we saw the Arizona Outlaws put up 83 sacks. 83! That was football! Hard hitting, no mercy, trying to kill that wobbling peacock who thinks he's above the team. And that was all in a season where they didn't pass as much as the do now! We had legends back then. Legends I tell you! Tuck, Ramrio, Ernston, Wozy. I could go on and on. Those were men. Real men who knew how to get past the offensive line and create real disruption. Create real hits. This past season, or best team only managed 48 sacks. What happened? Where has the talent gone? Why have the rules changed to protect these quarterbacks more than anyone else? Quite frankly, it makes for a boring display to watch.
The quarterbacks are so protected and babied that they're now consistently posting quarterback ratings of 90 or above. This past season we had a player get an average of a 100.7 quarterback rating! What is happening to this league!? What happened to the competitive fairness that we use to have? Back in my day, my boy Orosz was the best around. That man knew how to take a hit and keep on rolling. He was a fighter, a warrior, and he didn't mind getting dirty with everyone else. Even then, the first two seasons of the league saw him peak at an 84.1 rating. And this man was the absolute best, a titan among men, a legend of the league. None of this precious little flowers who are afraid to get hit would stand where Orosz stood 17 years ago. None of them would stand where real men stood. Where real men fought and bled for the sport they loved.
It doesn't just stop there with the quarterbacks. In the first two seasons of our league, we didn't see a single team dip between 32 tackles for a loss. Linebackers and defensive linemen were competitive monsters that tore through offensive lines like paper. Bull rushes had guards and tackles sitting in the laps of these running backs before the ball was ever in their hands. This past season? We only saw two teams beat that mark! 75% of the league had less than 32 tackles for loss. Its like these whippersnappers don't even want to go after the ball carrier. They want to wait for him to get to them and hope he doesn't just fly past them once he hits the hole. It is an embarrassment to this league that things have digressed this far.
What's more? Scoring is getting absolutely out of hand in this league. The Head Office swears its all to produce a more exciting game, but is it? Is it really? We're all here to see violent impacts as the best athletes in the sport try to break each other in glorious fashion. Football is supposed to be a blood sport, modeled after such event like the gladiatorial games. These men are supposed to be warriors, not pansy sprinters that run freely up and down the field as they score time and time again. If we wanted to see that, we could all go watch track. Last season there were seven players, not quarterbacks, who scored double digit touchdowns. Seven of them! In the first two seasons of our incredible league, there were zero such performances. Why? because back then they weren't afraid to hit. They weren't scared to sacrifice their bodies to stop a ball carrier from slipping by. Now it's all points and high flying offense and frankly it disgusts me. Did you know we had a runner get free for over 1450 yards last season? The closest we got to that back in my day was when Farlane ran for 1260 yards in season two. The difference? Farlane had to run it 40 more times and average only 3.4 yards per carry to get there!
Then we have safeties. What happened to the safeties!? There was nothing more beautiful back in the day than seeing a defensive stop resulting in a man writhing on the ground in his own end zone and points on the board. I remember some of the biggest and most exciting plays of our time being safeties that turned the course of a game. Not anymore. In season two we had nine safeties through the course of a season. We would get to see at least one every other week. Season 16? We saw two. One of the most glorious plays in the sport and we only got two. At this rate, you may as well completely remove it from the game. You've taken everything else fun from us.
Speaking of fun, or at least that is what the head office would call it, big plays are at an all time high. When you combine season one and two together, you've got a total of 15 guys who averaged more than 15 yards a catch. Season 16 saw 14 such players alone! Quarterbacks have all this time and all this protection these days and this stat shows it the most. They get all day out there to wait and pick their targets and let people get down field. You just didn't see that back in my day. Every single drive, every single play was a fight for inches. This league needs to remember that bigger is not always better!
While we're talking about bigger, why do we keep expanding? The Head Office insists on adding more and more teams to our league. More stadiums, more games, more money to line their pockets. They don't even care about competitive integrity. Back in my day, it was any given Sunday. There was plenty of talent to go around and every team had a chance to compete. Even the worst teams in our league weren't out of the playoff hunt until the season was 75% through. With all these expansions, talent is simply getting spread too thin. The best of the best just sign for the top teams, leaving these expansion teams with no way to compete. Did you know we had two teams combine for 1-25 last season? One win between them in 26 games! All they've managed to do is add farm teams for the top of the league to pad their stats against. Both teams managed to give up more than 400 points each through the season. In only 13 games. Back in my day, they had 14 games and even then didn't get close to giving up 400 points. Its an embarrassing display and there has never been a more obvious cash grab in sports history.
The longer this league goes on, the worse their obvious bias towards offense and big points gets. I am ashamed to call myself a fan of this league and I know many other who feel the same. If the Head Office has any prayer of retaining their fan base, they need to reverse direction and take us back to football. The sport we all loved. The sport real men played, not these dainty track players with pads. I hope this letter can talk some sense into you so we can see some real change in this league for a change.
Signed angrily,
Ebenezer1969
I have had to sit here and endure this train wreck long enough. I have been a fan of this league for 17 long years and I can say with unequivocal doubt, the NSFL has gone to absolute shit. This isn't football anymore. You look at the progress of the league and what has changed and thanks to your rules and your regulations and your backwards beliefs, you've broken the sport that we all know and love. It looks like a completely different game than it did in this league's inaugural season. Back then you defense and hard nosed football. You had men on the field who weren't afraid to hit or get dirty in the trenches. What I saw last season was a catastrophe of epic proportions as I realized the recent seasons weren't anomalies. They are the new normal.
Back in my day, you didn't see these rooty tooty quarterbacks dropping back to pass 600 times in a game while barely getting their jersey dirty. Back then, if you dropped back 600 times you were running a flight risk of a hospital visit. Back in season two we saw the Arizona Outlaws put up 83 sacks. 83! That was football! Hard hitting, no mercy, trying to kill that wobbling peacock who thinks he's above the team. And that was all in a season where they didn't pass as much as the do now! We had legends back then. Legends I tell you! Tuck, Ramrio, Ernston, Wozy. I could go on and on. Those were men. Real men who knew how to get past the offensive line and create real disruption. Create real hits. This past season, or best team only managed 48 sacks. What happened? Where has the talent gone? Why have the rules changed to protect these quarterbacks more than anyone else? Quite frankly, it makes for a boring display to watch.
The quarterbacks are so protected and babied that they're now consistently posting quarterback ratings of 90 or above. This past season we had a player get an average of a 100.7 quarterback rating! What is happening to this league!? What happened to the competitive fairness that we use to have? Back in my day, my boy Orosz was the best around. That man knew how to take a hit and keep on rolling. He was a fighter, a warrior, and he didn't mind getting dirty with everyone else. Even then, the first two seasons of the league saw him peak at an 84.1 rating. And this man was the absolute best, a titan among men, a legend of the league. None of this precious little flowers who are afraid to get hit would stand where Orosz stood 17 years ago. None of them would stand where real men stood. Where real men fought and bled for the sport they loved.
It doesn't just stop there with the quarterbacks. In the first two seasons of our league, we didn't see a single team dip between 32 tackles for a loss. Linebackers and defensive linemen were competitive monsters that tore through offensive lines like paper. Bull rushes had guards and tackles sitting in the laps of these running backs before the ball was ever in their hands. This past season? We only saw two teams beat that mark! 75% of the league had less than 32 tackles for loss. Its like these whippersnappers don't even want to go after the ball carrier. They want to wait for him to get to them and hope he doesn't just fly past them once he hits the hole. It is an embarrassment to this league that things have digressed this far.
What's more? Scoring is getting absolutely out of hand in this league. The Head Office swears its all to produce a more exciting game, but is it? Is it really? We're all here to see violent impacts as the best athletes in the sport try to break each other in glorious fashion. Football is supposed to be a blood sport, modeled after such event like the gladiatorial games. These men are supposed to be warriors, not pansy sprinters that run freely up and down the field as they score time and time again. If we wanted to see that, we could all go watch track. Last season there were seven players, not quarterbacks, who scored double digit touchdowns. Seven of them! In the first two seasons of our incredible league, there were zero such performances. Why? because back then they weren't afraid to hit. They weren't scared to sacrifice their bodies to stop a ball carrier from slipping by. Now it's all points and high flying offense and frankly it disgusts me. Did you know we had a runner get free for over 1450 yards last season? The closest we got to that back in my day was when Farlane ran for 1260 yards in season two. The difference? Farlane had to run it 40 more times and average only 3.4 yards per carry to get there!
Then we have safeties. What happened to the safeties!? There was nothing more beautiful back in the day than seeing a defensive stop resulting in a man writhing on the ground in his own end zone and points on the board. I remember some of the biggest and most exciting plays of our time being safeties that turned the course of a game. Not anymore. In season two we had nine safeties through the course of a season. We would get to see at least one every other week. Season 16? We saw two. One of the most glorious plays in the sport and we only got two. At this rate, you may as well completely remove it from the game. You've taken everything else fun from us.
Speaking of fun, or at least that is what the head office would call it, big plays are at an all time high. When you combine season one and two together, you've got a total of 15 guys who averaged more than 15 yards a catch. Season 16 saw 14 such players alone! Quarterbacks have all this time and all this protection these days and this stat shows it the most. They get all day out there to wait and pick their targets and let people get down field. You just didn't see that back in my day. Every single drive, every single play was a fight for inches. This league needs to remember that bigger is not always better!
While we're talking about bigger, why do we keep expanding? The Head Office insists on adding more and more teams to our league. More stadiums, more games, more money to line their pockets. They don't even care about competitive integrity. Back in my day, it was any given Sunday. There was plenty of talent to go around and every team had a chance to compete. Even the worst teams in our league weren't out of the playoff hunt until the season was 75% through. With all these expansions, talent is simply getting spread too thin. The best of the best just sign for the top teams, leaving these expansion teams with no way to compete. Did you know we had two teams combine for 1-25 last season? One win between them in 26 games! All they've managed to do is add farm teams for the top of the league to pad their stats against. Both teams managed to give up more than 400 points each through the season. In only 13 games. Back in my day, they had 14 games and even then didn't get close to giving up 400 points. Its an embarrassing display and there has never been a more obvious cash grab in sports history.
The longer this league goes on, the worse their obvious bias towards offense and big points gets. I am ashamed to call myself a fan of this league and I know many other who feel the same. If the Head Office has any prayer of retaining their fan base, they need to reverse direction and take us back to football. The sport we all loved. The sport real men played, not these dainty track players with pads. I hope this letter can talk some sense into you so we can see some real change in this league for a change.
Signed angrily,
Ebenezer1969
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