(S49) PT #2 - Relocation

[toivo]

SHL PT

[jreed12]

One team I think should transfer and rebrand is the Orange County Otters. For one, the Otters have a precipitous amount of stink surrounding their organization. From the stinky managers at the top, who can't even keep their drafts from getting leaked, all the way down to the stinky otter gifs that permeate our servers. Otters are molusk cracking little cretins that contribute nothing to society, and I think we should relocate them to Jreed's house to become the Jreed Weekly Mirrors. For starters, I will become propriety owner of the former Otters/current Weekly Mirrors, and will abruptly seize all of their assets. Next, as part of a reinvigoration of the Otters brand, players will wear uniforms with the Weekly Mirror fact check emblem you have come to know and love, with two back-to-back Gemini patches on the sleeve. Before every game, instead of singing the national anthem we will sing an article of the glorious and consistently factual award-winning Weekly Mirror.

[ajtigger]

If I were to choose one team for relocation I would rebrand the Osaka Kaiju back to the Chicago Butchers. For one, I am a sucker for nostalgia and respecting the classics and I personally believe the butchers were a staple of the league. I would be a huge fan of sticking to that tradition and having the team go back to the chicago branding. Second, I just am not a fan at all of the imaging and branding choices used on the Kaiju. I know a lot of hard work went into the decision making process and design but I just don't fully understand why they chose what they did. I think there would be other choices that could be made besides Kaiju. While I know it is the official term for "large monsters" I just feel to the layman it won't mean anything. While this doesn't mean it is a totally failed rebrand I just wish we had stuck with the Chicago Butchers.

[jacobcarson877]

I’ll be honest, I haven’t been around enough to really have a good idea of who a prime relocation candidate is, so I will pick a team at essentially random to relocate, again, for the fun of it.

I’ll choose the Orange County Otters for example. Love the colours, don’t immediately get the attachment to the Otter, maybe I just don’t see it yet. I like a team in California, I think it has the population centers to represent at least one team. But for the sake of shaking it up, lets call them the Silicon Valley Cyborgs. Keeps the pacing of the name, is another partial alliteration, rolls off the tongue pretty well. I could definitely see a good Cyborg hockey player logo in my head, and well Silicon Valley is like the tech hub, so making it something technological makes sense.

Nothing crazy from me here on this one, sorry to my Orange County fans, just getting my TPE!

[Duilio05]

I would relocate a DSFL team to Boise Idaho to become Idaho White Water. The team would be all about white water rafting, of which Idaho is known internationally for having good white water rivers. The Salmon River was once known as the River of no Return because the river was too treacherous to travel back up river. The largest wilderness area in the lower 48 is named after the River of no Return. Fans would will attend home game wearing white water helmets and wave mini kayak paddles. The "fan seating" section of the stadium will have a splash area where water will fall onto the fans after every touchdown. Around the stadium will be an endless river fans can swim in for tail gating. Boise is a great location for a team as it is the largest metro in the state and has the Boise river running through it. As such there is already a major white water recreation scene in town with a water park on the river west of the city down town.

[TheDrapFather]

If there was another current brand that should relocate, it would be the Colorado Yetis. With recent tough luck on the gridiron, a change in brand might help attract better talent. I suggest moving overseas like Osaka just did to revitalize the franchise. A great place to relocate to would be Paris. The city is a great market, as they are a classic tourist destination, have lots of history, and not to mention the current Olympic host. The Paris Pancakers has a ring to it and would symbolize the culinary scene in Paris. The franchise would instantly have a built in rival in the European ISFL market with Berlin as well. The franchise could also keep the same color scheme as red and blue would work perfectly in Paris! The gold accent could stay as well to make this smooth transition. All in all a move from Colorado all the way to France would be a lot, but the pay off might outweigh the cost.

[DigDoug11]

SHL affiliate

[BenDover]

With the recent relocating of the Chicago Butchers to Osaka, I wanted to talk about some brandings that were perfect already, and don't need to be changed at all. Starting off with the team I used to GM, the Minnesota Grey Ducks is an excellent blend of great theming, color, and location. Starting off with the themeing, in Minnesota in stead of playing Duck, Duck, Goose, they play Duck, Duck, Grey Duck, this is a main thing that anyone from Minnesota would recognize, making it better than San Jose, Arizona, and Baltimore already. Next is the sleek grey and light blue combo, easily one of the best in the league due to it not being too present in the major sports leagues already except for the Detroit Lions. Finally, Minnesota fans in real life have struggled long enough, so it was a good location to give them hope, as they are much better than the Vikings

[TomHanks]

Today I will come to the defence of a controversial brand based on comments I have heard over the years. As easy as it would be to make it about the New Orleans Second Line, I have waxed poetic about what great branding we have down there many times, and it feels like cheating a bit to use your own team’s. Instead, I will defend the Yellowknife Wraiths. First of all, the logo is ice cold and was one of my favourites when I had joined the league, plus it holds a special place in my heart seeing as I had visited Yellowknife very recently when I joined the league back in 2019. It’s a classic, great colour combination, and more so than most (if not all) of the logos in the league genuinely can strike fear into the hearts of opposition. As for the team’s location, Yellowknife is fun! There’s great fishing, some good landmarks, and some excellent hiking opportunities. If you travel in the summer, the sun never sets, you enjoy daytime the whole time and have no issues doing anything at any hour. In the winter, there are a ton of activities like snowmobiling and ice fishing, and it will get you some of the best views of the Northern Lights in the world. It does lack the population you want from a sports team city, but they are absolutely cornering the market on the second largest country in the world by land mass. Every Canadian ISFL fan can get behind the Yellowknife Wraiths, and that beats the heck out of competing for a small sliver of America.

[RDBSouthPaw]

I think that the one thing that we are missing in our international simulation football league is a little bit of representation from South America. I think that it would be awesome to get a franchise there that would officially put us on every continent. Out of all the teams around the league there is not a single team from South America. Tijuana gives us some representation for Central America but, I think we really need to look at bringing a team to down South. Targeting cities like Bogota and Rio would be awesome and there are a lot of really cool brandings that you could do. My favorite is one called the Rio Flyers with a parrot or some sort of really colorful bird as the mascot. There is a lot of potential in those cities and I think that the league or some team should really take advantage of it so that we can make it a true international football league.

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