06-15-2022, 08:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-25-2022, 09:22 PM by slate. Edited 4 times in total.)
Quote:8. With awards season upon us, make up an award for your player win for something not on the football field?
By tradition in the London Royals locker room, the coaches host a few competitions for fun throughout the season to help the players, many new to professional football and the rest only a few years removed, learn more about each other and relax a bit from the everyday stresses of the job. A few days ahead of every road game, the team reserves a space in a bar or nice restaurant and has a chill night hanging out with a modicum of competition. League leadership in recent years has even taken to handing out little plush lion toys to each week's winner!
While the rookie fullback Leandre Diarra enjoyed these evenings to hang out with his first pro football teammates, he for the most part did pretty badly in the actual competitions. Hailing from Europe and not paying any attention to American football until partway through his college tenure, competitions relying on trivia about American culture or the sport they played disadvantaged him heavily. Leandre had resigned himself to probably not collecting any cute lion plushies. That is, until he saw the email blast go out before the final home game of the season... that week's contest was going to be a geography bee.
While Leandre had never considered himself a geography buff per se, it was definitely an area of interest for him growing up. He used to spend nights looking through the big atlas his parents kept in the home office, and his interest in his African heritage helped him learn a lot of conventionally obscure geographical knowledge. He wasn't sure how much world geography would be covered, but when the night came he was able to hold his own enough with the US and UK geography thanks to his time spent there, and wiped the floor with his other teammates when it came to foreign cities and countries.
At the end of the night, Leandre's teammates cheered loudly as he walked to the front of the room to accept his prize from general manager Gordon Bombay. As Gordon handed Leandre the Royel Prize for Geography (as he announced the stuffed lion was to be properly called), he leaned over and whispered in Leandre's ear, "You didn't really think we were going to let you finish the season without one of these, did you?"
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Quote:25. Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why?
Well, if we lived in the very sad alternate reality where I was unable to play as a fullback, I think my choice probably would have been running back, most likely with the receiving back archetype. When I was initially thinking about my recreate a few seasons ago, having already played cornerback, I was immediately drawn to positions on the offensive side of the ball. My first player, Petey Patterson, was a very calm player who stayed on one team his entire career and was honestly a little bit boring to write about by the end of his career in terms of PTs and such. I was therefore interested in playing close to the opposite - a hotheaded drama-attracting offensive star player. That's kind of a WR stereotype and I wasn't really interested in just lining up directly opposite my previous position - I wanted to get involved with a whole different area of the game. So I think running back made for a natural choice, and I even went so far as to come up with some potential names and backstory ideas for this character before ultimately deciding to go with a fullback instead (and a much different character concept).
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(I just realized after posting this that technically a FB is a RB archetype so this doesn't really answer the prompt, but I don't care because I treat it as a very different role on the field.)
Quote:31. Affliate PT from either SHL/PBE/WSBL. The Weeks must match with the timeframe of this Offseason Task. And you may only use a max of 1.
WSBL Affiliate