10. Write a short biography or story about your player. This could include background about how they came to the ISFL and how they’ve done so far, a story about their role in an exciting game, or anything else related to their experience in the league.
For one of the two ultimus week tasks, I am choosing to do two Tier 2 options to get all of my points for TPE. The first one that I am writing about is a short biography about my player, Sal Ami, and including all of his background and stuff up to now. Sal Ami was born in Scranton Pennsylvania. He was always an athletic kid growing up, and had a love for all sports that could only be rivaled by his love for food. For a while he ate himself into oblivion basically. But as he got older and in organized team sports, that is where his life changed and he really started to shine. Sal played football for the School of Hard Knocks in college. He always idolized tightends such as Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates while growing up, so tried his best to mimic his game after them. On the DSFL level, Sal was used as a 3rd string tight end and rarely, if ever got to see the playing field. This all changed once he was drafted to the ISFL. To his surprise, he was called up year one and was a day one starter for this team. Once He got to the ISFL, the speed of the game was fast, so he did not have a great rookie year. Sal did have a breakout 2nd year where he recorded one of the highest catch percentages in league history. This most recent season proved to be his best where he amassed over 1 thousand receiving yards and 13 touchdowns. This was a monster season that surely will lead to Tightend of the year honors for Sal. Sal hopes to continue this elite level of play into future seasons, and if this most recent season was any indication, he certainly will.
14. Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?
For the second writing prompt I have chosen to write about option #14 – talking about our team and players journey this season. This one is an easy one and will have some similar stories to tell as I did in the prompt above. Anyway, Our season this year as a team was far off of what we expected going into the year. We came into the season with the highest average TPE by position in the league. The casino had our win total over / under at I believe 10.5 . However as the season began rolling, we started out a brutal five losses in a row. At this point we all pretty much new that our season was going down the drain with little hope of actual recovery. I think this shocked and really let everyone in our locker room down. Ice Bear began testing around this time, and this helped turn our season around. I think we went like 7 wins and 4 losses once Ice took over and began testing this year. As the season came to a close, we had a small chance, however just could not get over the miserable start that we had and missed the playoffs by a game or two. So while we underachieved on the team side of things, my user had a completely different experience. This was probably the best season that my player will ever have on the football field. He finished with over one thousand receiving yards this season and had 13 touchdowns which tied him for 3rd in the entire league. This type of season should lead to one that results in a pro bowl appearance and possibly an off season award like tight end of the year. I hope to build off of the season and hopefully have some successful ones in the future that are similar.
For one of the two ultimus week tasks, I am choosing to do two Tier 2 options to get all of my points for TPE. The first one that I am writing about is a short biography about my player, Sal Ami, and including all of his background and stuff up to now. Sal Ami was born in Scranton Pennsylvania. He was always an athletic kid growing up, and had a love for all sports that could only be rivaled by his love for food. For a while he ate himself into oblivion basically. But as he got older and in organized team sports, that is where his life changed and he really started to shine. Sal played football for the School of Hard Knocks in college. He always idolized tightends such as Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates while growing up, so tried his best to mimic his game after them. On the DSFL level, Sal was used as a 3rd string tight end and rarely, if ever got to see the playing field. This all changed once he was drafted to the ISFL. To his surprise, he was called up year one and was a day one starter for this team. Once He got to the ISFL, the speed of the game was fast, so he did not have a great rookie year. Sal did have a breakout 2nd year where he recorded one of the highest catch percentages in league history. This most recent season proved to be his best where he amassed over 1 thousand receiving yards and 13 touchdowns. This was a monster season that surely will lead to Tightend of the year honors for Sal. Sal hopes to continue this elite level of play into future seasons, and if this most recent season was any indication, he certainly will.
14. Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?
For the second writing prompt I have chosen to write about option #14 – talking about our team and players journey this season. This one is an easy one and will have some similar stories to tell as I did in the prompt above. Anyway, Our season this year as a team was far off of what we expected going into the year. We came into the season with the highest average TPE by position in the league. The casino had our win total over / under at I believe 10.5 . However as the season began rolling, we started out a brutal five losses in a row. At this point we all pretty much new that our season was going down the drain with little hope of actual recovery. I think this shocked and really let everyone in our locker room down. Ice Bear began testing around this time, and this helped turn our season around. I think we went like 7 wins and 4 losses once Ice took over and began testing this year. As the season came to a close, we had a small chance, however just could not get over the miserable start that we had and missed the playoffs by a game or two. So while we underachieved on the team side of things, my user had a completely different experience. This was probably the best season that my player will ever have on the football field. He finished with over one thousand receiving yards this season and had 13 touchdowns which tied him for 3rd in the entire league. This type of season should lead to one that results in a pro bowl appearance and possibly an off season award like tight end of the year. I hope to build off of the season and hopefully have some successful ones in the future that are similar.