The thing I love about the league is easy. It’s the people. It’s always been the people. That’s how you stay in the league for 6 years. Why do I keep going back to Austin all of the time? Oh, that’s right, it’s because Mooty is there. And Kya. And unconfident. And like, you know, everyone that I’ve ever met from there. And I don’t think we’ve ever shared a team, but I really enjoy my talks with Baron, and look forward to the yearly media awards conversation. Darkness is a real gem as well, and we have lots of great conversations about the league or discussing the media team. Speaking of, my media team has routinely been chock full of people I enjoy and every time I have to hire someone new, they tend to be great for the team. Special shoutout to Lemonoppy for this. The point is, I’m a lucky guy who’s come across HUNDREDS of fantastic people. Thank you ISFL. (164)
There are many things about the league that I love, most so being the community in general, and several specific users. That being said, I will not be talking about that today. Instead, I will discuss something a bit larger. I love the concept of the league itself. I love to create fantasy scenarios where characters from different fictions interact with real world characters. The ISFL is that realized. People call fortnite the most ambitious crossover event in history? The ISFL has had at least one of all of the following as a player at some point: real life people, anime characters, video game characters, penne pasta, a cup of hot chocolate, a potato, a robotic dog, a roblox character, a sentient pair of legs, celebrities, a dinosaur shaped chicken nugget, and nuclear projects. Where else can you say "I handed the ball off to an anime character, who had a piece of food as a blocker, made a pair of legs miss, but was ultimately brought down by a dino nugget." and have it make sense?
One of the biggest things I enjoy about sim leagues in general is the community and people in different discord rooms. While most league activities still happen on the forum or YouTube, much of the communication and interaction happens in the locker rooms of individual teams.
And I think the Honolulu Hahalua discord is one of if not the best discord locker room I’ve ever been in. Usually some team rooms are pretty bumpin in the “team only” areas, but Honolulu is pretty active across the board. I haven’t been in any other team LRs for a long time now, but it’s hard to imagine that they are this fun. With the constant banter and lively pbp on game days, to the wild question of the day and constant removal of rep for icebear, it’s definitely an awesome locker room where you can be yourself and have fun whether you’re a long time Honolulu legend or a brand new draft prospect S42 Ultimini Champ
S42 DSFL MOP, DSFL MVP, DSFL ALL-PRO
S44 Ultimus Champ
S48 Top Returner, ISFL ALL-PRO
There are a lot of things I have come to love in this league in my long time here. I loved my first DSFL the Tijuana Luchadores. Everyone on that team and in that war room were a massive part of the reason I got excited about this league and stuck around in the first place. My first ISFL team, the New Orleans Second Line, both those on the team and especailly those in the war room I love. And the other real reason I stuck around in the first place and became an active ISFL user was the whole S15 class. Rookie chat was bumping at all times, we all got to know one another really well, and so many of us got involved in GMing and/or Head Office that we went on to spend a great deal of time talking. We took over the chats of the old twitch streams, had fun in gen chat after we had to leave rookie chat behind, and back in those days of the league, everyone knew everyone. It was an amazing time in the league and I love every single member of that class for at least one reason or another.
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[OPTION]DSFL Regular Season Stats [OPTION] Tackles: 106 [OPTION] TFLs: 7 [OPTION] FF/FR: 1/1 [OPTION] Sacks: 3 [OPTION] Interceptions: 3 [OPTION] Pass Deflections: 9 [OPTION] Touchdowns: 1
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[OPTION]ISFL Regular Season Stats [OPTION] Tackles: 78 [OPTION] TFLs: 5 [OPTION] FF/FR: 1/2 [OPTION] Sacks: 8 [OPTION] Interceptions: 1 [OPTION] Pass Deflections: 8 [OPTION] Touchdowns: 0 [OPTION] Receptions: 419
[OPTION] Receiving Yards: 3681
[OPTION] Receiving Touchdowns: 25
[OPTION] Kick Return Yards: 5367
[OPTION] Kick Return TDs: 1 [OPTION] Punt Return Yards: 1651 [OPTION] Punt Return TDs: 5 [OPTION] Pancakes: 242 [OPTION]===========================================
[OPTION]ISFL Postseason Stats [OPTION] Rushing Yards: 926 [OPTION] Yards per Carry: 4.56 [OPTION] Rushing Touchdowns: 7 [OPTION] Receptions: 44 [OPTION] Receiving Yards: 408 [OPTION] Receiving Touchdowns: 4 [OPTION] Kick Return Yards: 653 [OPTION] Kick Return TDs: 0 [OPTION] Punt Return Yards: 192 [OPTION] Punt Return TDs: 0 [OPTION] Pancakes: 28 [OPTION]=========================================== [OPTION]Trophy Case/Achievements: [OPTION] S15 DSFL RBotY [OPTION] S15 DSFL MVP [OPTION] S16 Pro Bowler (RB) [OPTION] S17 Pro Bowler (RB) [OPTION] S18 RBotY [OPTION] S18 PERotY [OPTION] S18 OPotY [OPTION] S18 Pro Bowler (RB)
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[OPTION] S20 Pro Bowler (RB & Returner)
[OPTION] S21 Pro Bowler (OFlex & Returner)
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[OPTION] S22 Pro Bowler (RB & Returner)
[OPTION] Most Rushing TDs in a DSFL season (S15, 20)
[OPTION] 3rd Most Rushing TDs in a DSFL season (S14, 18) [OPTION] 5th Most Career Rushing Yards
[OPTION] 9th Most Career Rushing TDs
[OPTION] 7th Most Career Scrimmage Yards
[OPTION] 8th Most Career Scrimmage TDs
[OPTION] 5th Most Career Punt Return TDs
[OPTION] 5th Most Career All-Purpose Yards
[OPTION] 8th Most Career All-Purpose TDs
[OPTION] 4th Most Career Postseason Rushing Yards
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason Rushing TDs
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason Scrimmage Yards
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason Scrimmage TDs [OPTION] 10th Most Career Postseason Kick Return Yards
[OPTION] 7th Most Career Postseason Punt Return Yards
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason All-Purpose Yards
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason All-Purpose TDs
What prey tell brings a smile to my face? Well that would be the amazing Zenzeroni Xystarch II, the coherent ramblings of a madman slipping fast past his megalomaniac abilities into a diabolical mess of a James Joyce stream of thought, particularly a maniacal thought. On draft day when I learned that I would be teammates with the maddest of madmen I was elated! Zenzeroni’s writing has elements of irony dripping like that of Jonathan Swift, as concocts ridiculous narratives that both lack, yet are crafted with only a master stroke of self reflection as the author guides the character into overtly lacking self awareness in the slightest as the character barrels into haughty diatripes of self importance. Infinitely excited after draft night to be on the same team as Zenzeroni Xystarch II did not let me down. My excitement for this and love for the character has not diminished at all in fact it only grew. What a fitting person to write about this close to Valentines Day, I had already created a Valentines card to commemorate my love.
s43 Baron Nomination for Best Author, and Best New Author. Quite possibly, the greatest compliment I have received from anybody. I am no author I draw because I can not write. Most of you can not read.
Alright Valentine’s Day in the ISFL! Writing about things I love about this place might be hard because I hate everyone here. Nah I’m kidding, I love this league and just about everyone in it. I love the community here and how welcoming everyone is. Another thing I love is the PTs we have here. Some other sim leagues like PBE and SHL sometimes go into personal stats or your teams stats and historical stats and stuff that might require research to write anything for their PT, but to be honest I fo not have the patience to research all of that even my own personal stats. I never really check my own stats ever because it’s not really too important too me when it comes to sim leagues, wins are way way more important so I really appreciate that I never have to do homework and research to do a PT here. (153)
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Well the easy answer for that would be the locker rooms that I participate in as the teammates that I have had are the only reason that I have stuck around in the league for as long as I have. I will shout out happily every member of the Colorado Yeti locker room for having made my tenure there as a GM worthwhile and for going above and beyond in making my player career one where I feel that the time was well spent rather than wasted. Even just emoji reacts on the random posts I make in my channel brighten my day more than I can put into words given the hour.
Honestly I can also say one big thing I like about the sim is the play-by-play as being able to scroll through and see the specific events as they happen is huge to my overall ability to enjoy it as a football sim. Sure it has the problems that everyone rants about all the time, but the index it produces is better than some give it credit for and in the interest of spreading love I will say I appreciate said index. Thank you for your time and for the especially pleasant prompt I hope you have a wonderful week! Code: Word Count: 213
@Dewalt27 - Stupid human, why you wash your face when I love all over it? You're the best and your references are out of control.
@TheCC - I love you and your humor even if you don't want to meet up for beers during wedding season. @Muford - You make up for your brothers awful jokes. I genuinely enjoy you as a person. The Wraiths squad in general are all awesome and always helpful and mature while remaining fun. @TubaDeus tolerates my toeing the line daily and is always one of the most genuine people around. @shadyshoelace & @PMoney while lost to the wilds are always welcome sights to be seen and amazing folk. @ZootTX is the stinkiest rankest man I know and my favorite QB of all time. His love of mundane sim games sits well with my spirit animal. The London crew are awesome too and have been a new home to me after my banishment from the pirate team which shall not be named. @Tylertokesome04 and @Seb are 2 of the best users around.
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Ce que j’aime le plus de cette ligue est la communauté. Il y a de nombreux utilisateurs que j’adore cotoyer. Je pourrais par exemple nommer Twent6, Seb et Alikh. Ce sont trois joueurs qui m’ont fait tomber en amour avec la ligue. Les jours ou nous étions tous dans le vestiaire de Londres me manque. Nous avions beaucoup de plaisir et on riait à tous les jours. C’est vraiment des beaux souvenirs. Les traditions de la ligue que j’aime sont Pigl, les soirées de jeux dans le vestiaire de Londres. J’ai particulièrement aimé jouer à Fall Guys avec mes coéquipier. Un autre tradition que j’aimais beaucoup était la charité organisé par Alikh. Nous avons été en mesure d’amasser beaucoup d’argent pour des gens qui en ont besoin et ça me rendait fière de jouer pour Londres. De plus j’aime SAR qui m’ont repecher. Tous les joueurus sont gentils et je suis reconnaissant de abh et mag. J’aime aussi l’équipe de l’arizona et les beaux championnants que nous avons gagné ensemble. |
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