Pepelegs had always wanted to be a football player for the entirety of his life. However, if he wasn't going to be a football player. He was highly debilitated in his job choices due to the fact that he his legs are so smol. His other options, because of his small legs, were highly limited. And in reality, his only choice would be to have been a model for different companies that are selling specialized clothing for people with small legs. Should he have gone down this route, he would have been an incredible model for the small leg clothing companies, due to his incredibly smol legs that are at least somewhat fit, due to his athletic build on top of the small legs. Other options for work if he wasn't a football player, include being a chef, and also trying other sports. However, his small legs wouldn't really give him an advantage or a disadvantage in the kitchen, and other sports were not really something that they legs has ever been super interested in advancing. With that, I think everyone is glad that he has decided to play football. Even with his small leg built he has shown the ability on the field to do things that people with normal size legs are able to do as well.
William Lim came through a very unlikely path until he became a professional wide receiver. Originally a baseball shortstop, Lim first became an elite football athlete in the sophomore year in college. And that decision was made after much persuasion when he was originally planning to quitbeing an elite athlete altogether as his baseball career came to an end halfway through his sophomore season in college due to the lack of improvement in his batting skills, which had deterred him from being drafted to the pros out of high school despite his good defensive ability as a shortstop.
If for whatever reason Lim decided that he did not like to play this totally new sport, he would've have gine through the path he originally planned to go to when he first quit the baseball team, which was to become a lawyer. As he had not neglected academics through his formal education (unlike what most elite athletes do in his native country of South Korea), Lim's GPA was more than enough to get him into the law school at the moment. And as he would've had a lot more time as a full time student than as a student athlete, it is very probable that his grades would jave improved. So, if not for the decision to play the completely new sport of football, it is highly likely that William Lim would be earning his living as a lawyer somewhere in his home country. (243)
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If I wasn't playing football, I would be a disc jockey. I would spend my days spinning vinyl records of my choosing. No radio program director would tell me what to do. I would create a unique station that everyone would want to listen to. My show would be on the air during the highly competitive 6am to 10am morning drive time slot. This would not be a morning zoo type show. There wouldn't be unnecessary cheesy small talk to try to make listeners chuckle. We would play music. Music from the famous bands but the songs you don't hear on the radio. For example, if I played AC/DC, you would never hear You Shook Me All Night Long. Overplayed songs like those would not catch a whiff of my airtime. You want to hear Rock & Roll All Nite from Kiss? Well, good luck. Radio stations always say they try to edgy, but they always fail miserably. I could never run a show as good as late 90's/early 2000's Howard Stern, so I wouldn't try to do something like that. There are too many shows that tried to copy that format and it was completely embarrassing. I would be doing my thing, and it is still out of the box. If you are tired of hearing the same songs every time you turn on the radio or SiriusXM, then think about what could have been if I didn't choose football for a career.
There was very little doubt that Joliet Christ Jr. would play some sort of football professionally especially with his pedigree. His father, Joliet Christ is a hall of fame quarterback and long time signal caller for the San Jose Sabercats so when you think about it, the junior had some of the best coaching possible even from a young age where he could learn and develop his game as the next QB to wear Christ on the back of his jersey. His father Joliet also has coached multiple times including a stint in the front office for the Myrtle Beach Bucs which was short lived but it coincided with his son joining the league. If Joliet Christ Jr. were not to play football then he would be involved somehow with the game of football either in a front office sort of role or even coaching at some kind of level. When I think of Christ Jr. I would think that he would go the coaching route and coach for a major college program even potentially for his alma mater Iowa State or even his home town University of South Dakota or a bit away at South Dakota State. I don't think football would ever not be an option so playing for an arena team, Canadian team or something would likely be the next option if not an ISFL quarterback.
(229 words) Former players:
QB Joliet Christ Jr. (HON/BER) (1x Ultimus Champ)
WR Deondre Thomas-Fox (SJS) (2x Ultimus Champ)
QB Joliet L. Christ (SJS) (Hall of Fame) (1x Ultimus Champ)
There wouldn't be a life for PickSix II if he didn't pursue football. He was bred for greatness, he was engineered for success. As the offspring of a football player who's career was cut short by injury he was herded for a life on the gridiron at a very early age. Maybe Sr wanted to live through his son, but all that knowledge and genetics definitely gave Jr several pushes in the right direction. Since he could walk PickSix II was always around the game, from watching games with his father on Sundays, to playing in pop warner as a kid. PickSix II only knows football, and could not image a life where it was completely out of his life as a player. It gives him no greater joy than to step in front of receivers thinking they have an easy catch only for the ball to end up going back the other way, or when he lays out his body for his team to stop the pass by any means neccessary.
PickSix II is sure than an alternate reality exists, it just happens to be one where he doesn't as he is living his best life playing football and wouldn't have it any other way. 206 words
Life was made of choices. When Messi was in college, he had to juggle between his academic work and the professional football training. Different from most of the football players, Messi did a surprisingly good job in the college classes. He aced many math, computer science, and economics classes, so he seriously considered pursuing an academic career. Had Messi not chosen football, Messi would be in a PhD program at this moment. He would most likely to choose artificial intelligence as his major, and work on using AI to deepen our understanding of the economic system. For example, AI can be used to improve productivity, and mitigate the vulnerability of the economic system. Messi would be interested in developing algorithms on this front. Meanwhile, Messi would start to work on some entrepreneurship idea, since he is interested in changing not only the notion about the world in an academic sense, but also exerting impacts on the real world. He would talk to the Venture Capital people everyday to do his pitch - convincing them that his start-up would be next Intel, IBM, Google, Amazon, etc. He would earn the financial freedom at an early stage of his life, and pursue more ventures later. Messi would take on the management role in his start-up, motivating his peers to achieve a great vision.
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Without football, Douglas Quaid would be useless. He would probably be selling cigarettes out of the back of a van in his hometown. Growing up Quaid struggled with mental related tasks. He was much more comfortable working in labor operating a jackhammer all day, swinging a sledgehammer at a railroad spike, or carrying cement blocks around a work site. Quaid’s father flat out told him that he didn’t have much of a brain, so he better find a way to earn a living using his physical tools. That is where football came in. The sport was a chance to make incredible money. It was a long shot but Douglas picked up the game fast, earned a scholarship to Utah State, and improved enough to catch the eye of professional teams. Colliding with other people at full speed is Quaid’s niche in life. Everybody needs to find what they do best. Dishing out punishment on a football field is what Quaid does best. It’s a dark thought but it should be mentioned: Quaid might have ended up in jail without sports. Constant fighting and disputes plagued his childhood. The ISFL gives Quaid a chance to release all that aggression and irritation once per week, thereby keeping the blood pressure down. (209 words)
Code: 228 words Had Zack decided to not pursue a football career, he most likely would've followed in his dad's footsteps and become a member of the police force. Whether or not he would pursue a government career is up in the air how, as a kid, he didn't like that his dad's job took him all over the country all the time. As Zack got older, he understood more and more that there were bad people in the world and his dad had to go find them, and make sure they paid for their crimes. NCIS has been good to the DiNozzo family over the years, and Tony is coming up on retirement in a few months. Once the elder DiNozzo retires, he'll be spending every moment he can watching his son play the sport that they both love.
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Glenn Smart stumbled into football through due to seeing a team training opposite his rugby team's training field. Had he not seen them, there is every chance that he would have continued playing rugby throughout his youth, during which he established himself as one of the nation's most promising players. It's more than likely that, had he not made it to the ISFL, he would have reverted back to the sport which always just came naturally to him in his homeland. Had neither of those things worked out, due to injury or otherwise, Glenn Smart would have been working a relatively typical job. While he's not necessarily the sharpest tool in the shed, he does have great work ethic and a physique that lends itself well to physical jobs. That, combined with warehousing being one of the fastest growing industries in the United Kingdom would suggest that he would most likely have found himself picking and packing orders on a daily basis, earning little more than minimum wage until he established himself and began climbing the ladder within whatever organisation he was working for. So, in conclusion, as with most athletes, had football not worked out for Glenn Smart, he would most likely have ended up in a position that would be far from comfortable.
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Prompt Wrote:Life is made up of choices. What choice did your player make that led them to the ISFL? What would their life be like if they never pursued a career in football? What would they be doing for a living? When I entered high school, my first athletic priority was cross country. My junior high didn't have a football team and so I'd never really gotten into it. I got talked into joining the football team by a friend of mine who had been a year ahead of my and who said it would be more fun than doing the plain physical education classes in the fall season. So, I think if he hadn't gone to the same highschool or hadn't joined the football team and convinced me, I easily could have passed on football altogether and remained focused on cross country instead. At that point in time I was kinda scrawny and not very good, so I don't know if I would have devoted myself further and gotten good enough to try and keep it up in college or if I would have changed tracks entirely and gone into a less physical direction. For the non-athletic direction - I majored in economics at Fresno but I thought the accounting courses I took were actually the most interesting. From what I've heard, accounting as a career isn't nearly as fun (especially if you go into tax prep), but that was the direction that stands out to me the most right now. I could also see having gone into more of an abstract direction and getting into financial analysis or modeling. That's something basically every business and government needs and so it could have been a path to a lot of different industries, but I have no idea where I would have started looking without the 8 years of football influence. Draft Steal (retired S35 CB) - Profile/Update | Wiki Troen Egghands (retired S22 DE) - Profile | Update | Wiki |
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