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13) Write about your team’s biggest rivalry and what makes it so fierce. Is the competition founded in statistics and the team’s recent performance, or is it a rivalry that developed over time during the team’s history that would exist regardless of statistics?I don't really know if it's fair to say that Sarasota has a rival but if I was pressed and had to pick one team to give it to I'd probably go with the Chicago Butchers. Over the last few seasons we've been on a kind of similar path, fighting for the top spot in the NSFC and through all of the games that we've played against each other it's been quite back and forth. I think for this season especially, us considering them as a rival came from them sending us home in the playoffs last season. It was a really rough to way for our season to end, so I think coming into this season we've had our eye on being able to beat them when we had the chance to. In the regular season games we played against them this season we were able to get something back on them too, winning the two games we played against them, both at home and on the road. I guess the most important meeting of the two teams is going to be played in tonight's sim. We once again finished close to each other in the standings this season and now we're going to be playing against each other gain in the NSFC Wildcard game. There's obviously a lot riding on it for both teams but whatever happens it's going to add another level on to the rivalry. I guess the Hahalua have been a team that joined the league at the same time as us so could be thought of as a rival as well, but I feel like we've been on two different paths so wouldn't really include them in the same conversation. I guess also them being in a different conference means we never really have that many games to play against them, so I feel like the Butchers definitely fit the bill a lot better. I'm excited to see how another chapter of the rivalry of the two teams goes on to play out, both rosters are talented and I'm sure that they're going to be neck and neck with each other for a long time still to come. Even though the Sailfish and the Butchers are two teams that are based a long way from each other, the fact that both have seen such similar results in the last few seasons and the fact that we always seem to be playing high stakes games against each other definitely makes for a fun rivalry.
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14) Choose a team or player to write about that isn’t your own. What did they do well in the last season? Have they shown any drastic improvements from previous years? What could they do better?The player that I am going to be writing about is one of my good friends and one of the very best OL in the whole league, Simon Tremblay. Tremblay has been a member of the Philadelphia Liberty for a long time, having been drafted there in S21 and playing all of his seasons in the league with the team. The time that he's spent with them has been productive and I think that he's one of the best players at his position in the whole league. The Liberty are currently going through a rebuild so their roster as a whole isn't really in the spot where they would want it to be, but Simon is one of the veteran players that they have kept on the team and during this last season he's been very reliable. He's managed to put up 85 pancakes on the season, good for 6th best in the league and been about as reliable a presence protecting the quarterback as you could hope for, only allowing one sack on the whole season. I know this was disappointing for Tremblay however because I think up to this point he'd only allowed one sack in his whole ISFL career, so getting another one won't make him too happy but he still had a really good season. The thing that Tremblay did best was pancaking those pesky pass rushers, and on the whole I think he did a great job of showing why he's known as one of the best in the league. I think there should be a spot waiting for Tremblay in this season's Pro Bowl based on what he's been able to show us, and there's definitely no denying that he is one of the most inspirational and talented players in the whole ISFL. The only thing that I think Simon could do a bit better next season would be not allowing any sacks and maybe adding a couple more pancakes to his total so that he can be back contending for the OLotY award, but it was still a great season for him and one that I think is going to keep alive the very real prospect he has of becoming a HoF lineman by the time he retires. Tremblay is one of the league's best players on the field and personalities off it, and I hope we will see him return again in S27 with incredible numbers once again; defensive players up against him better watch out.
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