There are always those teams that just get under your skin. The ones you seem to have trouble with beating even when you're the better team. The ones with the stupid color scheme that gets on your nerves. I'm talking about the Cape Town Crash. We played them three times last season and didn't manage to beat them once, including in the conference championship game with a trip to the Ultimus on the line. I'm not going to say I hate them. In today's climate, hate is simply too strong a word. But I do get irritated by the very thought of that stupid rhino on their helmets. That's what made Week 3's thrashing so satisfying after struggling against them for so long.
This season's goal is simple: win the whole damn thing. But if there's anything that could make that dream any sweeter, it'd be taking the belt from our rivals and the defending champs all in one fell swoop. Heads up rhino boys, because we're coming for you!
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Byron Blackwell - S22-S25 - Dallas Birddogs CB Kevin Morrison - S26-S31 - New Orleans Second Line OLB / Honolulu Hahalua DT Jake Jefferson - S40- S24 - DSFL CBOTY S31 Ultimus
While I may dislike all teams about equally, if there is one team that I have beef with, it's probably the Otters. However, the beef has cooled off considerably as time has gone on. In fact, the beef is so non-existent, I struggled to even include Orange County here. But, having my first two players there for almost all of their entire careers, there was a lot of success in Orange County. Now, with two straight players in Sarasota, it makes Orange County seem like lifetimes ago. It's always a little sweeter to get a win against them, the ultimate matchup would be the Otters vs the Sailfish in an Ultimus someday. Truth be told, I don't have much, if any animosity against the Otters these days. I think the Sailfish divisional opponents have been more intense in terms of rivalry for me. Any team that gets in the way of me being a champion, is a team that I have a problem with. I hope to grow a heated rivalry someday soon with a franchise who can make my blood boil again with rage.
185 words WR- JAMAL SLICK JR.
"THE NEW ERA"
MR 8X ULTIMUS CHAMPION
QB Mike Boss - HOF TE Johnny Blaze - HOF QB Mike Boss Jr WR Johnny Blaze Jr
Sam Mercury is brand new to the ISFL but his lineage is anything but. Mercury comes to the league experiencing the league through his uncle, Tre'Darius J'Vathon's eyes, during his reign of terror in the league. In that Mercury was great friends with Johnny Blaze and sons and they were always together on the same team throughout his friendship with the family. Now that Blaze's youngest child has been in the league for awhile and Mercury is just entering they have now become frenemies. Mercury is pushing to reach the ISFL as fast as he can and is hoping to make it before the youngest Blaze is out of the league. There is nothing Mercury wants more than to blowup Blaze on the edge while coming in to take down the ball carrier or line up Blaze for a monster hit as he runs a crossing route over the middle. Not only is Mercury looking to create a rivalry with Blaze based on the families being friends but Blaze is playing for the Sailfish which is the team Mercury would hang around with. Mercury is looking to cement his legacy in this league as a tough and aggressive linebacker and his first target is Blaze and the Sailfish before he pushes on to chasing Ultimus rings.
216 words S25 Sarasota: 26 rec, 437 yds, 16.8 ypc, 4 TD
S26 Sarasota: 45 rec, 724 yds, 16.1 ypc, 7 TD
S27 Sarasota: 81 rec, 1,122 yds, 13.9 ypc, 8 TD **Ultimus Champs** S28 Sarasota: 84 rec, 1,182 yds, 14.1 ypc, 3 TD
S29 Sarasota: 105 rec, 1,470 yds, 14.0 ypc, 14 TD **PRO BOWL**
S30 Sarasota: 80 rec, 1,174 yds, 14.7 ypc, 9 TD **Ultimus Champs**
06-25-2023, 06:39 PM
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