3) For any team, certain players and users have gone above and beyond, shaping the legacy of the franchise. Choose any ISFL or DSFL team - with the exception of the Sarasota Sailfish and Honolulu Hahalua - and create a Mount Rushmore for that team. Who in your mind are the four most noteworthy figures of the team’s history? Why does each one of your included figures deserve that recognition, and how did each of them make their mark?
It would be hard to talk about this league without talking about the New Orleans Second line and everything that happened to them. They started out as the Las Vegas Legion. Things never looked good for them, with only 8 victories in their first three seasons. As the years went, moral was lower and lower for the team and the cataclysm happened in the offseason of 2019-2020, where the Legion announced a mass retirement. It was quite interesting to be involved in this, if I am honest. This sent a shockwave through the league and generated a lot of attention. At the end, only one player didn’t retire, me. The league named Bovo, as the general manager of the team, and this is the main guy I want to talk about today. Bovo managed to bring back a franchise from the death and go beyond, winning 2 championship with a new core of players.
He was dedicated to the team in more ways than others. His first decision was to move the team out of Las Vegas and the stigma of this mediatic storm as soon as possible. He established them in New Orleans the season after, and the team adopted the purple, teal and gold colors. He sold corpses of players in order to get picks, and managed to draft wonderfully, picking up wonderful players as soon as 2021. To name a few, they picked Brian Mills, Jaylon Broxton and Borkus Maximus III. The team was still not in a great shape, but managed to pick up 2 wins in the season with a young roster.
He traded for Julian O’Sullivan in 2022 due to lack of good pick in the draft. In 2022, the team won 4 games, still improving their record. The biggest move they did was in 2023, when the team traded for Vincent Sharpei and sent Jaylen Broxton, along with a first rounded) for now NOLA Legend Vladimir Fyodorovich. They also picked up William Harrison with the second overall pick. Those genius move allowed NOLA to move on to the playoff for the first time in their history, after a 9-win seasons. They lost in the finals against the wraiths.
Tio follow on this great building made by Bovo, the team traded for Benson Bayley and Paul Di Mirio in order to solidify themselves as a force to recon. Those acquisition helped them finish with 12 victories in the season and capture the first Ultimus cup of their history. They would proceed to win another one 2 years later.
I think for me it’s a no brainer that Bovo managed to bring one of the most powerful team to fruition after the ‘start of the league’ era. There are so many great names that he managed to draft or sign and the complete turn over of the franchise in so little time is a proof that he was a genius and went above and beyond for the team. In a few years, he moved the team from 2 wins a season to a record of 4-9-12-11-11 in the following 5. He brought in some dedicated players to the team and some name that will be forever tied to their history. They won the conference championship 4 years in a row following all the moves Bovo did and won the division 3 years in a row. For me, it’s an extraordinary feat to be done by a man that was handled a crippled franchise.
I don’t know a lot of people that would have want to take over the Las Vegas Legion after what happened. Hell, I was even making fun of my own team at the time calling them the Last Vegas Legion because we were sucking so much. I remember when Bovo came along and made sure everything would go smoothly afterward. I stuck around the league for a few seasons after he joined, but I unfortunately never really stuck with ISFL, due to not liking football in general. However, I still remember to this day the turnaround that we managed to do with this team and how fun it became after he took over. I am not blaming what happened on the previous GMs, as it's fairly hard to manage a team in general in my opinion, but Bovo did something good with the franchise, and I am really pleased to see the history of New Orleans today.
This team would have never done it to where they are right now without him, and it’s important to take the time to recognize what him, and honestly, everyone in NOLA at the time, did for the franchise. This league would have been way different if they didn’t manage to rescue the franchise with an amazing general manager. I thank you for everything you have done for NOLA and for the league Bovo.
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It would be hard to talk about this league without talking about the New Orleans Second line and everything that happened to them. They started out as the Las Vegas Legion. Things never looked good for them, with only 8 victories in their first three seasons. As the years went, moral was lower and lower for the team and the cataclysm happened in the offseason of 2019-2020, where the Legion announced a mass retirement. It was quite interesting to be involved in this, if I am honest. This sent a shockwave through the league and generated a lot of attention. At the end, only one player didn’t retire, me. The league named Bovo, as the general manager of the team, and this is the main guy I want to talk about today. Bovo managed to bring back a franchise from the death and go beyond, winning 2 championship with a new core of players.
He was dedicated to the team in more ways than others. His first decision was to move the team out of Las Vegas and the stigma of this mediatic storm as soon as possible. He established them in New Orleans the season after, and the team adopted the purple, teal and gold colors. He sold corpses of players in order to get picks, and managed to draft wonderfully, picking up wonderful players as soon as 2021. To name a few, they picked Brian Mills, Jaylon Broxton and Borkus Maximus III. The team was still not in a great shape, but managed to pick up 2 wins in the season with a young roster.
He traded for Julian O’Sullivan in 2022 due to lack of good pick in the draft. In 2022, the team won 4 games, still improving their record. The biggest move they did was in 2023, when the team traded for Vincent Sharpei and sent Jaylen Broxton, along with a first rounded) for now NOLA Legend Vladimir Fyodorovich. They also picked up William Harrison with the second overall pick. Those genius move allowed NOLA to move on to the playoff for the first time in their history, after a 9-win seasons. They lost in the finals against the wraiths.
Tio follow on this great building made by Bovo, the team traded for Benson Bayley and Paul Di Mirio in order to solidify themselves as a force to recon. Those acquisition helped them finish with 12 victories in the season and capture the first Ultimus cup of their history. They would proceed to win another one 2 years later.
I think for me it’s a no brainer that Bovo managed to bring one of the most powerful team to fruition after the ‘start of the league’ era. There are so many great names that he managed to draft or sign and the complete turn over of the franchise in so little time is a proof that he was a genius and went above and beyond for the team. In a few years, he moved the team from 2 wins a season to a record of 4-9-12-11-11 in the following 5. He brought in some dedicated players to the team and some name that will be forever tied to their history. They won the conference championship 4 years in a row following all the moves Bovo did and won the division 3 years in a row. For me, it’s an extraordinary feat to be done by a man that was handled a crippled franchise.
I don’t know a lot of people that would have want to take over the Las Vegas Legion after what happened. Hell, I was even making fun of my own team at the time calling them the Last Vegas Legion because we were sucking so much. I remember when Bovo came along and made sure everything would go smoothly afterward. I stuck around the league for a few seasons after he joined, but I unfortunately never really stuck with ISFL, due to not liking football in general. However, I still remember to this day the turnaround that we managed to do with this team and how fun it became after he took over. I am not blaming what happened on the previous GMs, as it's fairly hard to manage a team in general in my opinion, but Bovo did something good with the franchise, and I am really pleased to see the history of New Orleans today.
This team would have never done it to where they are right now without him, and it’s important to take the time to recognize what him, and honestly, everyone in NOLA at the time, did for the franchise. This league would have been way different if they didn’t manage to rescue the franchise with an amazing general manager. I thank you for everything you have done for NOLA and for the league Bovo.
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