(S23) - PT2 - Draft Day

[Haseo]

PBE PT

[Starboy]

As stated many times before, I love the draft and being drafted. There was no real surprise on my DSFL team after accepting the general manager job with the Kansas City Coyotes but there was still something to think about when it came to the NSFL and what teams were looking for a quarterback of the future. I wanted to push aside the former issues that I had under Joshua Palmer and Armor King as a slow earner with a busier life and try to become something far greater. However, the creation and announcement of the Jack Brothers being guarantees at San Jose and Yellowknife killed the ideas I had for the draft. I still expected myself to go high but now the list of teams that could want me were slashed by a considerable margin. The teams that I wanted to go to were the Baltimore Hawks and the Philadelphia Liberty who had both left a good impression on me through the scouting process and I thought that I could fill the quarterback role at either team nicely. Then the draft night came and I watched as pick by pick went by without seeing myself. I was bummed out that the quarterback situation for plenty of teams was definitely more locked up than I thought until the fifth round when I finally went to the Baltimore Hawks. The late round pick may have bummed me out a bit, but I was going to be the focus on a team rebuilding itself and be a part of something great.

[C9Van]

SHL PT

[muse316]

It was an exciting day for the Skywalker family as the TV lit up with the NSFL logo.

“Shhhh!” Luke’s mother said as she watched the screen. “It’s starting!”

“I keep telling you mom,” Luke said, obviously nervous but with a cheerful grin. “I’m a quarterback. Most teams don’t need one. I’m probably not going to get picked until further down the draft. I’ll be lucky if I’m picked at all!”

“C’mon son, have some faith that you’ll get chosen,” Luke’s dad said, patting his son on the back. “No matter what, we are proud of you.”

“Of course, of course,” Luke’s mom said, waiving her hand dismissively at her husband. But we hope he’ll be drafted soon!”

Luke and his dad exchanged glances. “Why don’t we all take a walk?” Luke said. “It’ll be a bit before they get to me anyways.”

“A walk?!” exclaimed Luke’s mother as Luke’s dad grabbed his slippers. “How can we go for a walk now when your career is at stake?”

“Mom,” Luke said smiling. “It’s not at stake. I know I won’t go early, and I know wherever I go, I’ll be happy. But what I really want to do, right now, is spend some time with my parents.”

Luke’s mom looked at her husband and then her son, and then smiled, defeated. “Fine, we’ll go for a walk. But As soon as we get back, we’re turning back on the TV!”

Luke smiled. “Of course,” he said.

Skywalker ended up getting drafted in the 6th round. He got the call while he was on a walk out with his parents, with his mother shouting for joy and his father pretending to not cry in the background. Skywalker was elated and relieved, but was mostly thrilled that he got his secret first choice, and would finally get to see Hawaii with his family.

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[Highhaschdi]

After having a good first season in the DSFL for the London Royals, Wide Receiver Nick Kaepercolin declared for the S22 NSFL Draft. He wasn't drafted in the DSFL and got only signed from waivers by London before week 3. In his first DSFL season he proved that he's more talented than most scouts and experts expected and quickly became WR2 for the Royals improving each and every game. That's why Kaepercolin headed confident into the draft hoping to get picked in the first six rounds. He didn't know any NSFL team that much, so there wasn't a favourite team for him. Most of the teams scouted him, so he was very excited to see who would select him that night. In the fifth round of the NSFL draft with pick 57, the Baltimore Hawks selected the young WR, which Nick was very happy about. He got even drafted before his Royals teammate and WR1 Susan Cash Jr., which surprised many people. This got Kaepercolin another boost to his confidence and he is ready to show Baltimore that they made the right choice and he's looking forward to help the young Hawks team build up a real contender and hopefully win a Ultimus in the next few seasons.

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[Goat_Whisperer]

I have not been drafted yet, but I recently joined a DSFL team Portland Pythons through the waivers. My agent and I decided that its the right time to come over and see if there is any interest from DSFL or should we look into other options such as playing in Europe and trying again next year.

Around couple days later since the wheels started rolling, my agent informed that couple teams are interested in potentially having me in their team, but there were no telling what will actually happen since the waiver process is full of unknowns starting from different teams having different positional teams and those needs being affected by the waiver process itself, but I knew before entering waivers that I had a fair chance on joining a team in the near future.

Not sure what happened in the waivers and when I was picked for example, but Portland Pythons picked me up, together with my agent we agreed that Portland is the best place for me to develop as a player, so I joined the Pythons.

The team has been great, I feel I made the right decision on accepting their offer and I´m thankful that Portland made the decision to take me into the team.

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[Jo3fish5]

As a new player in last season’s DSFL season 22 draft, I wasn’t really sure what round I’d go in or who would draft me. Some of the teams hadn’t even reached out to me. I was a tight end back then, because tight ends are cool, and I still don’t know how over saturated or under saturated tight end is, but I’m not anymore, I switched to running back after the Portland Pythons took me in the fifth round with their 37th overall pick. At this point in the draft, I was relieved to have finally been picked and on my first ever team. As someone who was planning on being at least close to max earning and willing to position switch for my team, I had been hoping to go in the first three rounds, but looking back I was a new user with so many questions around me about staying active. I didn’t let my late pick get me down though. After position switching to running back for Portland I had an awesome and fun time in the Portland locker room before getting ready for the NSFL draft. Now that I had a season under my belt, I was prepared to slide in this draft. I knew that there weren’t many opportunities for running backs in the NSFL at that point so I was expecting to go somewhere in the third round, maybe even the fourth. I was super excited when the Arizona Outlaws drafted new I the second round, at 19 overall.

[Sushi]

SHL PT

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[Slothman07]

In order to understand the absolute high I felt being drafted second overall in the DSFL season 23, you have to see me at my lowest low. When Stan left me for that aerobic instructor bimbo, after I gave him 35 of the best years of my life and one hell of a prom night mind you, I was crushed. I didn’t know what to do; my kids were grown and starting families of their own, I had been a homemaker and now I was adrift, with no purpose; no meaning. I enrolled at Golden Gate University to get my English degree, thinking perhaps I could support myself teaching no good punks not to split infinitives. But as so often happens in life, the tiniest twist of fate really threw me for a loop: I came across a flier offering free cheesecake samples to anyone who tried out for the football team.
I don’t have to tell you how fucking delicious cheesecake is, or how I would do literally anything for that sweet, creamy sensation. So I tried out, and when it came time for tackling, to my surprise, I found that I absolutely loved hitting men. I mean really hitting them. I saw nothing but a line of Stans for me to crush into dust. The rest is history.
Football and cheesecake are the only things that brought me through the darkest time of my life, and I have dedicated every waking moment to them ever since those tryouts. When I heard my name slither off the forked tongue of the Portland GM, it was like a big hug from the universe saying “Hey, you did it. You took a bad situation, you listened to Jagged Little Pill on repeat for a month straight, you gained 100 pounds of pure muscle, and now you’re the baddest mother around.” And brother, let me tell you: The universe ain’t wrong.

P.S. If you're in my English Lit class please, for the love of God, do not use “ain’t” in your papers.


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[ZootTX]

As the hours counted down to the season 21 DSFL draft, I really didn’t know what to expect, as this was my first time to play in the NSFL or a similar league. Since I was still learning how this whole NSFL thing worked, I missed some good TPE chances. As I wasn’t a super high profile rookie, my chances of going early were pretty slim. Obviously, everyone wants to be drafted, and drafted early. However, only one team, the Birddogs, had shown any interest in me, so I was trying not to get my hopes up too high. They took another, much higher ranked tight end with pick 33 in the 5th round. At that point I was pretty discouraged and assumed that my chances of being drafted were slim, not realizing that there would be almost 300 picks in this draft. To my surprise and excitement, I was finally drafted with pick number 161 at the top of the 21st round. Momma always said I was a late bloomer! At that point I was just happy to be anywhere. This year will be my third (and likely last) season with the Birddogs, and I can’t imagine a better place to start my NSFL career than there.

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