Well, every offseason comes and goes and I am writing this literally hours before the deadline, and I always find myself writing about the champions of the league and how they made it to their respective championship games. Well this season is going to be a little different as I will talk about the DSFL runner up as well because they too have a truly interesting story. First of all I would like to start off by saying congratulations to the Arizona Outlaws and winning the Ultimus again. I’m sure no one saw this coming but hey regardless you guys are the now two time reigning, defending champions of the International Simulation Football League but be careful of your own success, you don’t want to become the John Cena of sim leagues where everyone will just say “LOL Arizona Wins” and move on from it but I must digress at this point because I need to get to the most interesting story in possibly sim league history, well with maybe the exception of the one guy who multies all the time and the guy who gets suspended from the league every time his previous suspension runs out of time.
Yes that is right boys and girls it’s time to talk about the greatest story in sim leagues, the Contraction Bowl. The game that two weeks prior to the season starting would have never happened in a million years because at one point both of these teams were not going to exist going into season 40. Yes that’s right because of dwindling user numbers and low recruitment numbers head office had to make the tough decision to eliminate two teams to make the league a better place. I don’t know how head office arrived at the teams to cut but it was decided that the Bondi Beach Buccaneers and the Portland Pythons were the teams that were to be axed for better or for worse. Now ISFL had a recruitment drive scheduled for the NFL subreddit which weirdly enough was the same day that Tom Brady retired…well the second time he retired. Now I’m not saying that Tom Brady retiring and driving eyes to the NFL subreddit is what led to such a large draft class coming in but I also don’t have any proof that Tom Brady didn’t in fact cause such a large draft class to join. Well with this large draft class coming in head office decided that it wasn’t going to be able to contract the two teams as they were now going to need those teams to house the incoming rookies and thus Tom Brady saved the Bondi Beach Buccaneers and Portland Pythons. So with both teams now saved all they had to do was go out and play simulated football and boy both teams did, two teams on the brink of death go out in the case of Portland win their division and Bondi Beach ended up finishing second in their division. Portland by points scored and points against were the second best team in the league and by the same metric Bondi Beach was the best team in the league even though they would finish second in their division. Now against all odds and with the deck stacked way against them, both of these team would end up meeting in the Ultimini for the chance to the greatest comeback story in sim league history. The Ultimate Story of redemption would end up belonging to the Bondi Beach Buccaneers who would end up beating Portland to claim the Ultimini for season 40 and thus Tom Brady once again saved the Buccaneers.
Yes that is right boys and girls it’s time to talk about the greatest story in sim leagues, the Contraction Bowl. The game that two weeks prior to the season starting would have never happened in a million years because at one point both of these teams were not going to exist going into season 40. Yes that’s right because of dwindling user numbers and low recruitment numbers head office had to make the tough decision to eliminate two teams to make the league a better place. I don’t know how head office arrived at the teams to cut but it was decided that the Bondi Beach Buccaneers and the Portland Pythons were the teams that were to be axed for better or for worse. Now ISFL had a recruitment drive scheduled for the NFL subreddit which weirdly enough was the same day that Tom Brady retired…well the second time he retired. Now I’m not saying that Tom Brady retiring and driving eyes to the NFL subreddit is what led to such a large draft class coming in but I also don’t have any proof that Tom Brady didn’t in fact cause such a large draft class to join. Well with this large draft class coming in head office decided that it wasn’t going to be able to contract the two teams as they were now going to need those teams to house the incoming rookies and thus Tom Brady saved the Bondi Beach Buccaneers and Portland Pythons. So with both teams now saved all they had to do was go out and play simulated football and boy both teams did, two teams on the brink of death go out in the case of Portland win their division and Bondi Beach ended up finishing second in their division. Portland by points scored and points against were the second best team in the league and by the same metric Bondi Beach was the best team in the league even though they would finish second in their division. Now against all odds and with the deck stacked way against them, both of these team would end up meeting in the Ultimini for the chance to the greatest comeback story in sim league history. The Ultimate Story of redemption would end up belonging to the Bondi Beach Buccaneers who would end up beating Portland to claim the Ultimini for season 40 and thus Tom Brady once again saved the Buccaneers.