5. The league has a rich and fascinating history, and our perspectives on it differ from person to person. In 800 words or more, describe any significant moment in ISFL or DSFL history, whether you were around for it or not. Describe the context, the significant members, and the events. What exactly made this event so famous (or infamous) and why does it deserve to be remembered? Events might include championship wins, the inducting of players to the hall of fame, or even a league scandal.
There are many many significant memories when it comes to the league history. I will try to talk about a few of them.
First off, Arizona dominates the first three seasons. They were just very very good and had most actives, or so we thought. Winning the first three titles was very dominant and we all thought they were the best team. Turns out a huge part of their success came from one Er who secretly ran something like 8 to 13 players, most of which were on Arizona and suddenly those titles seemed quite tainted.
After that, we get another three peat from another team, this time the Orange County Otters with one Julian O'Sullivan at linebacker too. Once that dynasty was over, we finally had a few seasons of different teams winning and not just huge dynasties.
After another scandal involving the Las Vegas Legion trying to retire many, the New Orleans Second Line were founded and they had to go through a huge rebuild from worst team to eventually winning a big title with one of the best teams ever established, and once again with Julian O'Sullivan in it.
The Otters went back to dominating for a long time with many more titles and a playoff run that lasted like 20+ seasons. It was pretty nuts really, they are by far the most dominant team in the league history.
Some of the best players in league history are players like Mike Boss who was the quarterback of that first Orange County Otters dynasty. The Otters also had another dynasty quarterback with Armstrong who could arguably be called the greatest of all time even above Mike Boss.
The New Orleans Second Line had a tumultuous history not just with the aforementioned scandal but also since then. With Bovo and Bayley as the GMs they had this amazing run but then another rebuild had to happen, where I was introduced as the GM of the team right after being drafted (no like literally as soon as I was picked, it was crazy!). After that we had to rebuild again and added a bunch of team legends to the team like Tom Hanks, terrible hippo, slothface and more.
In recent history we had once again a really good team that went to a couple Ultimus finals but couldn't get it done. Now we are once again rebuilding a bit and my third player is already on the team too, after Julian O'Sullivan came the quarterback Stan Francisco who was utterly disappointing and now the Defensive End Medicinal Toblerone.
I had a really good start to my career at defensive end but then the league switching sims has really fucked me a bit. Since the switch, I have struggled to achieve good seasons, with this current one being by far the worst one of my career so far. It's a bit annoying, as I am now at the highest TPE of my career but not performing like it. I really hope by next season I can improve again and bring this baby back on a good road.
There have been many changes in leadership over the years. We had the crazy time where Noble was the commish and got caught cheating. We also had people like Dwyer as commish who apparently wasn't very good either. Now we have Bex as the commish who I am a huge fan of and who I think has done a great job. Many crazy expansions have happened, most notably due to a huge reddit class that saw a huge amount of new users added. We have changed the name of the league as we introduced more and more international users and teams to the league, with teams in the majors being outside the US as well now.
My fondest memories are honestly the people I met along the way though. From that first Otters team with great guys like timeconsumer, to then the crazy locker room of that original NOLA team with beaver and bovo and a few others which genuinely made that room one of the craziest I've ever been a part of. Then the new start with me as GM and having to basically draft a team and their new faces. Adding such amazing guys to the team then and I feel like we have continued to do that over the years, even after my tenure was over, with guys like mith, jay doctor and drector being added to the team and leading the team in meaningful roles as well. There are some awesome people in this league and I am happy I am able to be a part of this league for so long and hopefully will continue to do so for a long time still. It's been like 25 seasons for me and I hope that the next 25 seasons will be just exciting as these first 25 were!
There are many many significant memories when it comes to the league history. I will try to talk about a few of them.
First off, Arizona dominates the first three seasons. They were just very very good and had most actives, or so we thought. Winning the first three titles was very dominant and we all thought they were the best team. Turns out a huge part of their success came from one Er who secretly ran something like 8 to 13 players, most of which were on Arizona and suddenly those titles seemed quite tainted.
After that, we get another three peat from another team, this time the Orange County Otters with one Julian O'Sullivan at linebacker too. Once that dynasty was over, we finally had a few seasons of different teams winning and not just huge dynasties.
After another scandal involving the Las Vegas Legion trying to retire many, the New Orleans Second Line were founded and they had to go through a huge rebuild from worst team to eventually winning a big title with one of the best teams ever established, and once again with Julian O'Sullivan in it.
The Otters went back to dominating for a long time with many more titles and a playoff run that lasted like 20+ seasons. It was pretty nuts really, they are by far the most dominant team in the league history.
Some of the best players in league history are players like Mike Boss who was the quarterback of that first Orange County Otters dynasty. The Otters also had another dynasty quarterback with Armstrong who could arguably be called the greatest of all time even above Mike Boss.
The New Orleans Second Line had a tumultuous history not just with the aforementioned scandal but also since then. With Bovo and Bayley as the GMs they had this amazing run but then another rebuild had to happen, where I was introduced as the GM of the team right after being drafted (no like literally as soon as I was picked, it was crazy!). After that we had to rebuild again and added a bunch of team legends to the team like Tom Hanks, terrible hippo, slothface and more.
In recent history we had once again a really good team that went to a couple Ultimus finals but couldn't get it done. Now we are once again rebuilding a bit and my third player is already on the team too, after Julian O'Sullivan came the quarterback Stan Francisco who was utterly disappointing and now the Defensive End Medicinal Toblerone.
I had a really good start to my career at defensive end but then the league switching sims has really fucked me a bit. Since the switch, I have struggled to achieve good seasons, with this current one being by far the worst one of my career so far. It's a bit annoying, as I am now at the highest TPE of my career but not performing like it. I really hope by next season I can improve again and bring this baby back on a good road.
There have been many changes in leadership over the years. We had the crazy time where Noble was the commish and got caught cheating. We also had people like Dwyer as commish who apparently wasn't very good either. Now we have Bex as the commish who I am a huge fan of and who I think has done a great job. Many crazy expansions have happened, most notably due to a huge reddit class that saw a huge amount of new users added. We have changed the name of the league as we introduced more and more international users and teams to the league, with teams in the majors being outside the US as well now.
My fondest memories are honestly the people I met along the way though. From that first Otters team with great guys like timeconsumer, to then the crazy locker room of that original NOLA team with beaver and bovo and a few others which genuinely made that room one of the craziest I've ever been a part of. Then the new start with me as GM and having to basically draft a team and their new faces. Adding such amazing guys to the team then and I feel like we have continued to do that over the years, even after my tenure was over, with guys like mith, jay doctor and drector being added to the team and leading the team in meaningful roles as well. There are some awesome people in this league and I am happy I am able to be a part of this league for so long and hopefully will continue to do so for a long time still. It's been like 25 seasons for me and I hope that the next 25 seasons will be just exciting as these first 25 were!