The Simmer’s Tribune:
Learning from a Legend
Picture this: It’s draft night and you’re waiting for the call. The friends you’ve made through the combines and workouts are getting picked and rosters are starting to fill. As the rounds move you start to worry about what you could have done differently, which question you answered wrong, which executive you pissed off, which terrible movie you’ve starred in somebody watched, or which terrible movie you’ve starred in that nobody but your draft mates watched so now they yell “MENDOZA!!!!!!” every time you take the field and maybe GMs think your name is Mendoza now so they can’t find you on the board and now you won’t get drafted and you have to move back to the farm in Austria where papa will be very cross with you for leaving the country and the farm but mostly the country.
Ok, so maybe my draft experience was not the same as anybody else’s, but what I can say for sure is the feeling of joy when my name was finally called was the same high everyone else in my DSFLS20 Draft Class felt. It was especially an honor for me to be drafted by the reigning champion Grey Duck as it meant playing with the best tight end in the league, Blake Gregg.
In case you’ve been living under a rock Gregg is the NSFLS20 First Round pick by Yellowknife, an absolute beast on the field, and the cornerstone of both the passing and running game. Every week he takes the field Gregg is a dynamic player to watch as he truly embodies a blue-chip player, excelling at every aspect of the game. In the locker room he is a totally different story.
When I first got to Minnesota the first thing I did was approach the behemoth I'd be sharing the depth chart with. "Hi," I said, "I'm Rainier. I just got drafted it's an absolute honor to work with you Mr. Gregg."
"Fobl." was his reply.
"Fobl?" I asked. I wasn’t quite sure I had heard what he said or if what he said was a word. I was just trying to get a feel for my surroundings and thought maybe I had hit a language barrier. But before I could go on Gregg had jumped to his feet and embraced me, then proceeded to share a photo album of his dog with me.
A week later he was named team captain and the locker room couldn’t have been happier.
Blake Gregg is the perfect leader for a locker room despite his less traditional approach to motivation. To the press and passers by it might just sound like the quickest way to say the word football, but to us Ducks it’s a way of life. Fobl is a singular focus on the goal in front of you. Fobl is knowing your aim, seeing your plan, and making it happen. Fobl is showing no fear even when the cards are down and the enemy is at your gates. Fobl is not just about football, fobl is a philosophy for life.
When people ask me what it’s like to sim with a living legend, there’s really only one thing I can say.
“Fobl”
Learning from a Legend
Picture this: It’s draft night and you’re waiting for the call. The friends you’ve made through the combines and workouts are getting picked and rosters are starting to fill. As the rounds move you start to worry about what you could have done differently, which question you answered wrong, which executive you pissed off, which terrible movie you’ve starred in somebody watched, or which terrible movie you’ve starred in that nobody but your draft mates watched so now they yell “MENDOZA!!!!!!” every time you take the field and maybe GMs think your name is Mendoza now so they can’t find you on the board and now you won’t get drafted and you have to move back to the farm in Austria where papa will be very cross with you for leaving the country and the farm but mostly the country.
Ok, so maybe my draft experience was not the same as anybody else’s, but what I can say for sure is the feeling of joy when my name was finally called was the same high everyone else in my DSFLS20 Draft Class felt. It was especially an honor for me to be drafted by the reigning champion Grey Duck as it meant playing with the best tight end in the league, Blake Gregg.
In case you’ve been living under a rock Gregg is the NSFLS20 First Round pick by Yellowknife, an absolute beast on the field, and the cornerstone of both the passing and running game. Every week he takes the field Gregg is a dynamic player to watch as he truly embodies a blue-chip player, excelling at every aspect of the game. In the locker room he is a totally different story.
When I first got to Minnesota the first thing I did was approach the behemoth I'd be sharing the depth chart with. "Hi," I said, "I'm Rainier. I just got drafted it's an absolute honor to work with you Mr. Gregg."
"Fobl." was his reply.
"Fobl?" I asked. I wasn’t quite sure I had heard what he said or if what he said was a word. I was just trying to get a feel for my surroundings and thought maybe I had hit a language barrier. But before I could go on Gregg had jumped to his feet and embraced me, then proceeded to share a photo album of his dog with me.
A week later he was named team captain and the locker room couldn’t have been happier.
Blake Gregg is the perfect leader for a locker room despite his less traditional approach to motivation. To the press and passers by it might just sound like the quickest way to say the word football, but to us Ducks it’s a way of life. Fobl is a singular focus on the goal in front of you. Fobl is knowing your aim, seeing your plan, and making it happen. Fobl is showing no fear even when the cards are down and the enemy is at your gates. Fobl is not just about football, fobl is a philosophy for life.
When people ask me what it’s like to sim with a living legend, there’s really only one thing I can say.
“Fobl”