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*Juni: The Franchise Destroyer - lock180 - 08-30-2024

Preface: Remember this is all in good fun and despite not knowing Juni at all two seasons ago I’m proud to call him my GM and friend. Don’t be making hit pieces on people you don’t have some kind of rapport with and even then make sure they are okay with it :)

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I didn’t expect to get to my conclusion before even getting to Act Two but you have to play with the cards you have been dealt. All of my detective work was for naught. It didn’t matter. It was worthless. All because Juni just straight up admitted to it. I had been yelling at the sun hoping someone would listen to me but he handed me evidence on a silver platter. Juni is the biggest liar in all of the ISFL and somehow tricked the entire league into thinking he has no idea what is going on but as seen in the above screenshot Juni has been using these plans for three plus years to manipulate rookies into doing his bidding.

Where did we leave off? Ah yes, the death of a franchise. Well, that is a ways away still as we look back on the history of Juni but just think of it as a car that’s going faster than you on the highway that is eventually going to come up and pass you. It will happen but you’ve still got time before then and so do I.


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I thought it was only right we start with a Juni update “mistake” because the original theory was these “mistakes” were the issues of being old and forgetful but now that we know these attempts are INTENTIONAL, well, that changes the game. Juni pokes around with updates and tests the waters to see what he can get away with. Eventually, we will see this come to a head but for now, we continue the story.

Going into season 24 Juni must have had the biggest smile on his face. His team had just lost a playoff game the season prior and were looking to go further this time around. Only problem was that they had Juni on their team to give them a nice old reality check “If only I can stop dropping passes LMAO.” This was what he said in regards to what the team needed to do to be successful in the coming year. He didn’t talk about improvement or team bonding (which took a significant hit over the past season) instead he laughs at how badly he played and makes no plan to fix it instead going on to talk about how awful the O-Line is and how pretty much any other position besides his own needs to be replaced.

Before Juni could put any of his diabolical plans into motion a bomb dropped on Philly. That bomb’s name, was Gucci. Gucci was much like myself. An accomplished media writer and storyteller Gucci found interesting stories and, well, wrote about them. One of his most popular series was a series by the name of “Why your team sucks” explaining why various teams have been doing so terribly. Next on his list heading into season 24 was of course the Philadelphia Liberty.

I find it funny that Baron1898, the user I can’t and will never ever stop talking about, left the Liberty one season before Juni joined the team. I have to give her credit for that because it might be the best thing she did for her career. Anywho I am going to quote the entire final paragraph because it sums up my own viewpoint so well

Quote:So back to my first question. Why does Philly suck? Well after going through each of these reasons, I haven’t been able to reach a final conclusion on why Philly sucks. It seems to be an amalgamation of bad luck and general mediocrity that has produced the league long sixteen season championship drought. Could that be the worst reason to suck of all though? Think about it, in part one I found no shortage of reasons that Myrtle Beach sucks, and Part 2 was a disaster epic that nearly caused me to stop writing this series altogether. So we know Philly sucks, they haven’t won in sixteen seasons for fucks sake, but there is no reason they haven’t won one. I really do think this is the worst reason possible for sucking, sucking without justification. Maybe that’s Philly’s destiny, to wander aimlessly through the seasons, year after year, with no salvation. Just a group of lost souls circling the drain of eternity, fighting for an unattainable goal. Or maybe they’re just bad and I didn’t have time to pinpoint the reason.


Juni had found the perfect team. A team that wandered aimlessly, without direction, lost in the space called football. A perfect place for him to blend in and feel like he belonged. A perfect place for him to grow his army, make people believe in him and only him, all while under the ruse of being an old man unaware of what is happening around him. In response to the article, Juni replies “Love it.” Juni loves that this is his team. He doesn’t care about winning, he doesn’t care about his player, all he cares about is that the perception of him is one of confusion all the while he is the puppetmaster to this charade, this farce, this team that he would crash and burn to the ground.

Destroying Philly couldn’t just happen from the inside, he would need outside influences to push his agenda along and he found that in one Adelie de Pengu. Pengu was a linebacker for the Yeti who were one of the best teams in the conference. If he could get Pengu on his side surely it would cause Philly to crumble to the ground and lead to Juni’s rise in power. Juni would take Pengu to the spa and then to his favorite cheesesteak place and this worked just as he planned “they had such a great day they decided that they would have to do it again and have become friends ever since.” with Pengu on the friends list Juni’s plan was in motion.

Juni’s next move was to destroy his team from the inside and he knew just how to do it

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Juni, through the help of his updater, had been “forgetting” to bank TPE properly leading to Juni not spending TPE he had, eventually accumulating nearly 30TPE before being caught. Juni was actively making his player (who was now the #2 wide receiver for the Liberty) worse by not updating properly. Caught in the act, Juni had no choice but to update properly “Wow what a nice mistaake to find. Thanks Auditers. ” This thank you comes off more sarcastic than sincere and clearly shows what his true plan really was.

What I find interesting is that Juni isn’t afraid to tell it as it is. They may be slip ups but I think they are very intentional. By being so blatantly obvious it makes whatever he says seem sarcastic, crazy, insane. In other words, Juni is so crazy with his choice of words, that he transforms into a confused old man that no one in the league takes seriously. Take this next PT Task for example. What you are about to witness will shock you that HO didn’t step in until you realize HO is likely on his bankroll as well. It has to come down to the people and his words sound so insane that people brush it off like it is nothing.

Quote:"I think one story that should be tracked is the story of flash panda. His dsfl journey is one of intrigue and mystery….. he went on to create an elaborate ruse…..He payed a lot of his hard earned money from the zoo to create the most elaborate disguise. And it worked for a season, he fooled everyone even when making crazy runs against Kansas City." - Juni


Well well well what do we have here?! His journey is a mystery, he created an elaborate ruse, he paid to create an elaborate disguise, and he fooled everyone. EVERYTHING I HAD BEEN SAYING HE JUST BLATANTLY PUT OUT INTO THE OPEN. And yet no punishment thread came for him and he was able to continue on without so much as a blink from HO.

And just when I thought he couldn’t get anymore blatant with what has really been going on behind the scenes he goes and posts this

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UNBEFREAKINLIEVABLE. You can’t make this up. I’ve talked about him wanting to take over the league and how he isn’t just some confused old man but a mastermind football genius and look no further than this image right here. He was trying to take this league and make it his own and it started with making his own team. But no one would allow a new team to just happen. Even Juni realized this. So he needed a plan. And that’s when it came to him.

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The perfect plan had just begun and over the next decade of the team's existence, Juni would ensure its downfall was all but guaranteed.

Juni thinks he’s a smart guy that much is clear. Don’t believe me? Just look at his updates!


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Juni thinks he can sneak things by the league but not everyone is on his payroll. Juni had a big brain but he was trying his best to get the biggest brain possible because he knew collapsing a franchise wouldn’t be easy. Looking at his players' season 24 numbers is a pretty unremarkable thing to do. He doubled his output from last season but that isn’t saying much and he still wasn’t the top receiver on a 3-13 team. But of course, he didn’t care about that.

Season 25 is a quiet season for Juni instead opting to spread his influence in places like the SHL and PBE not responding to a single PT Task in the entire timeframe of season 25. And why should he? The season prior he had just told everyone his master plan. He had put it into action and now all he had to do was sit back and watch it unfold. It was another losing season for the Liberty albeit not as bad as the last season as they would go 7-9 which was still second worst in the conference. Flash Panda also put up respectable numbers both as a receiver and a returner so I can’t knock that as the reason for their failure of a season. Juni had once more put himself in a position where he could blend in with everyone without everyone pointing the finger at him and he did this for one reason and one reason only: To get that sweet sweet extension. Following the events of season 25 in which they didn’t come close to the playoffs, due to Flash Panda’s considerable jump in talent he was extended with a massive 7 year 38.5 million dollar contract. This gave Juni two things. One, it gave him the money he so secretly craved. Two, it kept him at the reigns of the slowly sinking Philadelphia Liberty and they were none the wiser about what they had just done.

Not only had they just re-signed the greedy goblin franchise destroying Juni but the Liberty had also brought in new management for season 26. Thinking the GMs were the problem they ditched the old regime and brought in a new one. The only problem is they forgot one piece of the new regime that would continue to terrorize the team for seasons to come.

Season 26 was a disaster. With new management at the helm they weren’t able to combat Juni and his maniacal losing ways and the Liberty would end at the bottom of the barrel, a miserable 4-12. Flash Panda was finally the number one receiver........... On one of the worst passing games in the league. New management must have been scratching their heads wondering how it all could have gone so wrong. All the while Juni didn’t say a thing. Only posting predictions and the occasional activity check. Consistently checking in on his plan making sure it was falling apart as he had hoped.

And the plan was falling apart, or moreso the team was falling apart so he stepped back in and in season 27 became captain of the team. What diabolical plan would he deploy to ensure chaos would ensue? Nothing. Flash Panda saw regression fast approaching and that woke a beast inside his belly. Realizing he didn’t have long left in this world, Flash Panda had the best season of his career hauling in 99 catches for just over 1300 yards. It was of course a losing season but not as bad as some others. The Liberty ended with a 6-10 record again second worst in the conference in front of the winless Hawks.

But as mentioned earlier, regression was hitting Flash Panda and despite trying to trick the updaters into giving him more TPE he would take a severe hit. The grumpy old man that Juni was turning into began to turn on the GMs in Philly. In a post called “I’m done” he declared his relationship with Pat and Cody done after they allegedly rigged the “hungry games”. I’m not sure what this is all about but it was deja vu for the Liberty who once more went 6-10 in season 28 only above the Hawks. With the regression of Flash Panda hitting hard, his one season as WR1 was over and the new recruits began to make their mark. Juni’s influence on the team was slipping. The GMs didn’t care about him, his player didn’t have the influence and he was losing a grasp on the league. Something had to give. But before that, Juni was causing regression trouble once more as he tried to hold onto the small amount of intelligence he had left. Ultimately, it would work, that is, until the auditors stepped in and put a stop to it.


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Before season 29 began Juni sat down for a solo podcast taking questions from anyone who dare ask him one. I found some of his answers intriguing but the question I wanted to hear the answer from most was from Jimi who asked Juni what his perspective was on Philly’s situation as a team and asking why Juni himself stuck around. I wanted to know the answer because it would give a clear answer on the angle that Juni was going to go about hiding his true intentions. Or maybe he was going to own up to trying to do a league take over. The latter of course did not happen. Juni would go on to blame the former GMs for the team's failures. But in the same breath in talking about why he never left Juni would say “losing didn’t bother me.” and in that sentence I had everything I was looking for in his answer. Losing didn’t bother you Juni? Why didn’t losing bother you? Maybe it’s because you WANTED to lose? WANTED to see the team fail? WANTED to see the team go under so you could swoop in and be the savior? He would continue on “I never planned on going for the hall of fame. I never planned on going for a ring. I never really cared about any of that.” truly shocking words if we didn’t know his true intentions already.

His next question response did surprise me. Answering another Jimi question he said he was unsure about if he would recreate after the retirement of Flash Panda stating that he doesn’t love football but if he were to recreate it would be at kicker. Why would a man that has been acting like he doesn’t know or like football stop playing in the league? The answer is attention. His podcast was going to get 10s of views and he knew that him saying he might not continue in the league would get the league buzzing. He needed the spotlight back on himself if he wanted to destroy the Liberty once and for all and this was his way of doing that.

As his career was winding down and another season gone Juni was getting desperate to find a way to sink the franchise. No matter how much they lost they just wouldn’t go away so he went to his good buddy Jimi with a question “You've been given the reigns to an expansion team whether you like it or not, do you have a vision for the team? What kinds of players/Locker room might you want? Is there a playstyle you might like to try and adopt with a clean slate like an expansion team?” Juni’s plan was an expansion team. His vision of collapsing the Liberty seemed to be falling apart. After another terrible season where they went 5-11 and Flash Panda continued to decline it appeared the Liberty were going to be here for the long haul. Juni’s only hope was Jimi.

I think now is a good time to bring up a theory that I have had for a while now and brought up in the Jreed article I made. Every single user with a J at the beginning of their name, is the same person. Here is a direct quote from my previous article on Jreed12

 
Quote:“This one user had created four separate accounts to try and be successful in even just one of them. He wanted a monopoly on the ISFL getting positions in every area of the league so that he could overthrow the HO and become a dictator making his own rules so that he could finally come out of the shadows and show himself for what he truly was.”

Sounds strangely like what Juni is trying to do doesn’t it? And in that previous article, I had forgotten to include Juni in the people I thought were multi’s.

The former list was as follows:
@jreed12
@JKortesi81
@jdc4654
@J0EB
But we also now need to add @Jimi64 and @juniped into the mix. ALL of these users have one mission. Make this league one big Joke. Make it their league. Their rules. Their teams. Their players. And dare I say their main account is Juni himself. Imagine a team with nothing but multi’s. Surely THAT has never been done before right? ;)

Anywho season 30 was the swan song for Flash Panda and was by far his worst season as he would only catch 22 balls for not even 300 yards. Of course, his updating struggles continued into season 30 and he finally formally announced his retirement in the middle of this dreadful season one where the Liberty would go 4-12, once again only staying above the Baltimore Hawks.

I didn’t mention it but Flash Panda was a fairly accomplished returner I would explain further but wolfiebot is down. The truth is, no one cares about that. Juni had failed his mission. He had wanted to become a dictator through the ruse of an old man. He had wanted to destroy a franchise but despite the amount of losing the team fought and refused to go away. Flash Panda retired and would be forgotten if it weren’t for me. Juni’s plans had been foiled.............or had they?

It would seem they had. Following season 30 and free from the dastardly Juni, Philly reached the .500 mark in season 31. The next season they were top of their division coming in at 11-5 but after getting bounced in the conference series it was back to irrelevancy for the Liberty and just under 10 years from Juni’s retirement, breaking news came from Philadelphia:


Quote:“The city of Philadelphia can only watch in horror as the franchise that they love dearly shatters in front of their very eyes. Literally.

Like all of the non-Philadelphians, they witnessed the breaking of one of the most important symbols of American freedom in the Liberty Bell. They witnessed the collapse of their stadium at the hands of wild animals. They witnessed their team’s head honchos suddenly disappear without any rhyme or reason. It has seemingly been an irrational series of events for the team that has already been down on their luck. But this collapse is seemingly a fitting microcosm of the team’s recent history.”


@Faded eyewitness testimony

Was Juni the culprit behind the destruction of the Liberty? Likely not but the fact of the matter is he was with them through their darkest stretch and was to blame for TRYING to destroy the Liberty. Juni’s first player’s career can be summed up in one word: Mediocrity. But that is what Juni always wanted. He didn’t want a flashy player even if his name was Flash Panda. He didn’t want rings. He didn’t want to be in the hall of fame. He wanted to take control of the league. His first plan had failed. The eventual destruction of Philly brought in the Cape Town Crash but before the crash, there was a mauler. A mauler that looked a lot like a panda and you won’t believe where he ended up……

Juni will return