(S30) PT 1 - Going International

[MobiausGrander]

Oh boy! Another year, another offseason that has been completed! However, this offseason was a little bit different than most. With the spread of American football around the world, other countries have requested that U.S. teams be sent over in order to give a little seminar on how the game works and to get a little demonstration while they are at it. For NOLA, we've been requested by Brazil to send some of our players to help with that goal. To help with that goal, NOLA has sent, Sloth, Toblerone, Witten, and myself to help demonstrate the game to the country of Brazil. When we arrived at our destination within the country of Brazil, we quickly set up a "seminar" to demonstrate some aspects of the game. To begin, Sloth demonstrated the importance of passing within the game as he and Witten executed from route and timing drills. At first, the two of them completed those drills unhindered, but then Toblerone and I, as defensive members, showed how defense is played by running a 2v2 with me acting as the pass rusher and Toblerone as the DB on Witten. I believe that through this small demonstration of drills and defense we have managed to hopefully spread the game a little further into the world!

[j00]

If you've been keeping up, and you better be, then you would've known that Juno Hu has launched a new foundation called Hu Cares. Part of this foundation's operations has been hosting football camps around the US, so of course, Juno Hu and Hu Cares is the perfect candidate to help grow this game internationally. We will teach them all about the "head first" way of playing football, which is a philosophy focused on teaching the game of football in a way where the players can "think as little as possible" so they can play faster. (If you wish to know more, attend the camps! Can't be giving up trade secrets without payment, wtf.)

I think the best country to start with would be Japan. I mean first of all, there are tons of beautiful women which are totally not a factor in the choice whatsoever, but also there is a ton of cool stuff to see and do there, which is also totally not a factor in the choice, either. Instead, it's actually because Japan has a rather large and devout football following, with leagues of their own already, and there are Americans who have moved there to coach football. Some European country would've probably been a good choice, too, but Japanese worship football at a much more fanatic rate, which I think cultivates a much better environment for nurturing the sport. Also, just overall too many hooligans over in Europe, not to mention how a large portion of their population view the sport. Hurr durr hand egg, and that's why they don't deserve to be graced by my glorious presence!

But it'd be even better if Juno had a partner in crime, which Juno would bring along either his old buddy @dude_man Cade Williams or new bud @Asked Madden Raylan Crowder, (or both!) because Juno doesn't know shit about the trenches, and it'd be a real travesty if Juno had to teach linemen how to play.

[r0tzbua]

This PT is in german, have fun.

Nachdem American Football in Deutschland immer größer und beliebter wird, haben sich die Honolulu Hahalua entschlossen für sich zu werben um eine neue Fanbasis zu entdecken und zu entwickeln. Guy Fields der Linebacker Veteran aus Illinois wurde geschickt weil Amerikaner es nicht schaffen zwischen Deutschland und Österreich zu entscheiden. Guy Fields spricht immer noch perfektes Deutsch nachdem seine Muttersprache ist. Nachdem sein Team das weiß, aber nicht weiß aus welchem Land seine Eltern sind, schicken sie ihn nach Deutschland. Das hat ihn aber nicht sonderlich gestört, weil er nachher einen Abstecher nach Österreich machen konnte um seine Großeltern zu besuchen.

Fields landete in Frankfurt und hat von dort einen Anschlussflug nach Berlin genommen um dort an einem Trainingcamp der Berlin Rebels teilzunehmen und einen Workshop über Verteidigung und die Rolle von modernen Linebackern in der ISFL. Der Workshop war gut organisiert und die German Football League Spieler haben ihrer Aussage nach viel gelernt. Nach dem Workshop war Fields noch zwei Tage beim Trainingcamp anwesend um die Spieler zu unterstützen und ihnen Tipps zu geben. Nachdem es die Offseason war und er generell "frei" hatte beschloss er noch das Heimatland seiner Eltern und seine Großeltern zu besuchen und flog für einen kurzen Trip nach Wien, da er seine Verwandten in der alten Heimat seit langer Zeit nicht mehr gesehen hat.

Alles in Allem war es ein sehr erfolgreicher Trip und Fields hat es genossen nach langer Zeit wieder Deutsch zu sprechen.

[furiousPanda]

American football is growing all around the world. We have seen teams start forming from Europe, Japan and continue to grow in Canada. With the powerhouses of Europe starting to form stronger teams, Poland calls on the Developmental league Portland Pythons to send one of their players to help develop quarterback talent. Panda McKyle will be headed there for the offseason. McKyle, is a great candidate since he has amazing knowledge of the game and in addition he is a great arm talent. Which he can use to show off.  He will be setting up an arm workshop and a football concepts workshop in Poland. Two teams from Poland are looking for help. Cracow Tigers and the Warsaw Eagles. First off, European quarterbacks tend to have poor throwing mechanics, in which McKyle can help develop them into better form. Setting feet correctly, throwing tight against the body, this put together correctly will help the Eagles and Tigers put together better quarterback talent. Secondly, the concept workshop will focus a lot on the offensive concepts and defensive reading. These offensive concepts will be pretty basic like tempo, huddle, pass setup, run setup and even quarterback position. Without growing up with football a lot of basics could be lost and it is seen in the Polish quarterbacks. The quarterback workshop should be a great stepping stone for them.

[UltimateYeehaw]

PBE PT

[katarn22]

Being of German descent, the Colorado Yeti agree that it only makes sense to send Albert Ruschmann to Germany. This is ironic since there is already a team in Germany, the Berlin Fire Salamanders. While it might make more sense to have the Fire Salamanders send someone to represent them, the Yeti feel it's also good to have someone from one of the American teams be there. Albert, being a member of the defensive secondary, created a workshop for those who wanted to get into football, especially as a cornerback. He would invite all the local high schoolers and college students and run them through some drills to see what they got. Many of them had grown up watching the NFL and were just starting to hear about the ISFL, so they were excited to get to work with Albert.

First, Albert took the kids through the physical drills. Things like sprints, gassers, 20 yard cone, cutting, juking, and so on. These were important skills for everyone to have regardless of the position that they played. Most of them were okay at it which was encouraging to see. The next drill, however, these zoomers were great at. Albert took out a laptop and started explaining the importance of improving yourself by earning TPE. A lot of the kids didn't understand at first, but once Albert showed them the video that @Kotasa made on how to update, everything started clicking. These kids became max earners overnight, and Albert would have had 80 recruitment TPE if it wasn't capped at 25. At the end of the day, though, the workshop was a success and strengthened the ISFL's presence internationally.

[Billybolo53]

Shl pt

[JaytheGreat]

It was a offseason to remember for Jay Spears, not only did he get drafted but him and some of his teammates were chosen to go to some international football camps. This offseason we were sent to Italy, Poland and Argentina, while Italy and Argentina were very grassroots type camps the Poland camp was surprisingly well coordinated and well run, the people were also much more enthusiastic then I thought they'd be. Ass a safety I did a lot of standard coverage drills and some of the combine type drills. There were also 2v2 drills along with teaching the right way to tackle a player. While it was very cool to see football in Europe going to South America was a whole other level. We did have to do more teaching and simplify to the basics a lot but man the players that came out really worked hard and some of the could flat out fly in the combine drills. After the seminars were over we hit the beach and played some 7v7s touch football and even some volleyball. Of course they wouldn't let us leave until we played a soccer game in some park in the city and oh boy we got destroyed, pretty sure it was about 15 to 3 when the mercy rule got called, but all in all we had an experience of a life time.

[moonlight]

The ISFL is eyeing an international expansion and of course, they've tasked Big Slammu as being their brand ambassador. Big Slammu is one of the most visually noticeable players in the ISFL. Washboard abs, large frame, and big heart all wrapped up in his shark persona. Of course, Big Slammu is world famous for his role in the hit show "Street Sharks" which has been translated in over 100 languages around the world. Big Slammu is a star and there's no doubt he'd be a great ambassador for the ISFL's hopes in expanding into more international locations. We have teams in Canada and as far away as Germany. Big Slammu has his own suggestions for an international location. Unfortunately, his tastes seemed to be entirely geared towards which countries have the hottest woman that strike his fancy. Thus, countries like Columbia, Ukraine and Nigeria are getting rave reviews from Big Slammu. Ignoring Big Slammu's dirty mind, these locations would be actually pretty cool. There aren't any African or South American teams, and an Asian team is long overdue. Hopefully future GMs who create franchises will create teams that will eventually let the ISFL truly earn it's international title. North America and Europe is pretty cool, but there are other continents too that would love the game of football.

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[Kotasa]

The Arizona Outlaws, knowing that their player Rich Triplet played in Tijuana for two seasons before coming to the states to play professionally, decided to send him down even further south to Argentina as it is well known that Argentinians are passionate about sports. Argentinians mostly support individual players as opposed to franchises for American and most international sports and have produced some amazing talent.  Manu Ginóbili, or Lionel Messi are probably the most famous both claiming gold in their respective sports. Upon arrival, Rich noticed that most there were not very big fans of American football, but Rich wanted to change that. Rich knew that he could move the masses and have them rally to hopefully one day send a player of their own up to the states to play professionally. Rich went to a youth rugby camp and taught them the differences between rugby and American football, some of the kids found this boring. However, some were enthralled with the knowledge they were bestowed and fell in love with the sport. Rich now funds a youth, ages 16 and younger, American football program for them and gave all the children a signed Outlaws jersey. Rich hopes these kids will one day find themselves playing in the ISFL.