Quote:Written Option: Expansion is coming! But we don’t know where to yet. You get to Create a franchise in a city of your choosing. Describe this new team. Come up with a mascot, color scheme, or maybe name the stadium. Tell why you chose this town. Have fun with it.
The Great Lakes are arguably the birthplace of the professional football scene, with sandlot teams "going pro" as early as the 1900s and forming the backbone for what would eventually inspire pro leagues like the NFL, AFL, and NSFL. Well, after careful deliberation and a lot of soul searching the NSFL league office has decided to put the lakes back on the map with a new expansion team, introducing the:
ROCHESTER LAKERS
The team will play near the shores of Lake Ontario in Wegmans Stadium stadium with a capacity of 27,000. The league hopes to tap into this large market with a team that appeals to crowds from Syracuse to Minneapolis. The simple navy blue jersey with yellow and white stripes hearkens back to the old days of pro football, as well as to the sailing traditions of the great lakes area and the blue/yellow themes used by several teams in the region from the Sabres to Michigan University. They will wear a white helmet with blue and yellow stripes and white pants with blue stripes as a primary uniform, and "all-blues" jersey and pants with yellow stripes with a yellow helmet as a home alternate. For an away it will be all-whites with blue and yellow stripes, or maybe they'll wear blue pants if they feel like it.
No matter which Great Lake you call home, you'll now have a great NSFL team to cheer for! I chose this town because I feel that the Great Lakes region is unrepresented in the NSFL and Rochester is a city that has no pro football team. It would be the second smallest market by itself but could appeal to a very wide range of people in that region. I thought about making it more centrally located such as Michigan, but I like Rochester so screw it.