32. Animal Blundetto’s podcast would be called “Animal Style,” a reference to a way to order food at In-N-Out, and it would be a food related podcast, specifically fast food. Animal would search out what new items were released by the various fast food chains, limited time items, or strange foods, and review them for his audience. Most of the time this would include guests, often related to the ISFL. Otter teammates, employees of the team, and friends from other teams would be invited to share in the meal and talk about themselves. Occasionally, a celebrity making their way through California would be a special guest. Episodes would primarily be released during the offseason due to the busy schedule during the season. The podcast would not necessarily be the most popular with Orange County coaches, due to the unhealthy food Animal would consume as well as the time spent talking with players from other teams. However, they swallowed their concerns as long as Animal still showed positive performances in practices and games.
24. The halftime show would be “The ISFL Goofy Olympics” and it would occur every Ultimus. It would involve players from the various teams that had been eliminated from the playoffs or who had not made them at all. There would be a series of strange and humorous challenges for them to compete in, such as a potato sack race and a dodgeball competition. Some events would be individual competitions while others would be ASFC vs NSFC, with each player gaining points based on their performances. The players would be competing for both a trophy and an additional prize, a season’s supply of Gatorade, the event’s sponsor. This would save a decent chunk of money for ownership due to not having to supply Gatorade, so pressure would be put on the players to actually take the events seriously, despite the silly nature of the events. They became a matter of personal pride with the players, with those that were eliminated from the playoffs early training and practicing for the events ahead of time.
14. I’m going to take a different approach to this question and speak more about contraction than expansion. After all, I think that’s more likely than expansion at this point, so you can’t talk about one without talking about the other. I know that we just did Reddit recruitment, and I heard some whispers that it was disappointing, though I admit I don’t know the exact numbers. The idea of contraction has been thrown around due to a lack of growth in our league, and that has become quite the controversial topic. Nobody likes that word, but I also don’t think we shouldn’t be afraid of it. I believe that we should be very open to the idea of contraction in the DSFL. The DSFL has always been extraneous and borne out of the necessity to put low tpe players somewhere. Although players form attachments to their teams, which would make contracting one of these historic teams difficult, the DSFL should always just be seen as a stepping stone. If it was possible, I would ok with even contracting the entire DSFL, even if that meant we needed to expand in the ISFL. However, I see this as not being likely to happen, due to a variety of reasons. One of them being that, in certain positions, there simply isn’t room for these players on their teams. Extra low TPE running backs or quarterbacks simply can’t function well as starters in the ISFL, and being a backup without playing time isn’t fun. Therefore, the most likely situation would be to contract one team from each of the DSFL conferences, to keep things fair. Criteria related to current active users should take priority when making that decision. I would base it off of the worst branding, but that’s why I won’t be making that decision. A six team league is probably a bit less fun to play in than the 8 team league, but ideally the users would not have to stay in the league as long anyway, since the lower user base that made contraction a need also means that there are more roster needs in the ISFL in general. My bottom line is that we are lucky to have a minor league at all right now. It should not be seen as the league failing if we can’t sustain it. A 14 team ISFL is already impressive in my opinion. Unless we drastically change our recruiting strategies (I think we’ve gotten all we can from Reddit), I believe our numbers are going to stay relatively the same or decrease, but that doesn’t mean what we have isn’t still impressive in its own way. I would also like to add though that I would like to see a team from South America if for some reason we did expand.
24. The halftime show would be “The ISFL Goofy Olympics” and it would occur every Ultimus. It would involve players from the various teams that had been eliminated from the playoffs or who had not made them at all. There would be a series of strange and humorous challenges for them to compete in, such as a potato sack race and a dodgeball competition. Some events would be individual competitions while others would be ASFC vs NSFC, with each player gaining points based on their performances. The players would be competing for both a trophy and an additional prize, a season’s supply of Gatorade, the event’s sponsor. This would save a decent chunk of money for ownership due to not having to supply Gatorade, so pressure would be put on the players to actually take the events seriously, despite the silly nature of the events. They became a matter of personal pride with the players, with those that were eliminated from the playoffs early training and practicing for the events ahead of time.
14. I’m going to take a different approach to this question and speak more about contraction than expansion. After all, I think that’s more likely than expansion at this point, so you can’t talk about one without talking about the other. I know that we just did Reddit recruitment, and I heard some whispers that it was disappointing, though I admit I don’t know the exact numbers. The idea of contraction has been thrown around due to a lack of growth in our league, and that has become quite the controversial topic. Nobody likes that word, but I also don’t think we shouldn’t be afraid of it. I believe that we should be very open to the idea of contraction in the DSFL. The DSFL has always been extraneous and borne out of the necessity to put low tpe players somewhere. Although players form attachments to their teams, which would make contracting one of these historic teams difficult, the DSFL should always just be seen as a stepping stone. If it was possible, I would ok with even contracting the entire DSFL, even if that meant we needed to expand in the ISFL. However, I see this as not being likely to happen, due to a variety of reasons. One of them being that, in certain positions, there simply isn’t room for these players on their teams. Extra low TPE running backs or quarterbacks simply can’t function well as starters in the ISFL, and being a backup without playing time isn’t fun. Therefore, the most likely situation would be to contract one team from each of the DSFL conferences, to keep things fair. Criteria related to current active users should take priority when making that decision. I would base it off of the worst branding, but that’s why I won’t be making that decision. A six team league is probably a bit less fun to play in than the 8 team league, but ideally the users would not have to stay in the league as long anyway, since the lower user base that made contraction a need also means that there are more roster needs in the ISFL in general. My bottom line is that we are lucky to have a minor league at all right now. It should not be seen as the league failing if we can’t sustain it. A 14 team ISFL is already impressive in my opinion. Unless we drastically change our recruiting strategies (I think we’ve gotten all we can from Reddit), I believe our numbers are going to stay relatively the same or decrease, but that doesn’t mean what we have isn’t still impressive in its own way. I would also like to add though that I would like to see a team from South America if for some reason we did expand.