When Mattathias Caliban was first drafted by the Yeti, he spent two more seasons in the DSFL before moving up to the pros. During this span, the Yeti's starting quarterback was Hall of Famer Wolfie McDummy. While Caliban and McDummy were never on the Yeti's roster at the same time, McDummy still helped to mentor Caliban during that span in preparation for taking over the starting quarterback role after McDummy's retirement. They had would work out together and work film together to help Caliban hone his skills in preparation for the jump to the pro level. They also had the opportunity to talk and McDummy shared personal advice about what the transition is like. The lessons he gained from the training and the advice were instrumental to Caliban as he played his early games as a member of the Yeti. Caliban had big shoes to fill becoming the new starter after McDummy. This inspired Caliban to follow in McDummy's footsteps by winning an MVP as a Yeti quarterback, a goal which he was able to accomplish. Now that Caliban is nearing retirement and the Yeti have already drafted Live Laughlove to be their quarterback of the future, Caliban is taking the opportunity to provide similar mentorship to his successor. He hopes that he will be able to provide some useful training that will be able to help Laughlove get off to a strong start and help keep the Yeti going strong in the next generation.
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This is very difficult for me to talk about as I have not really had an Football mentor so to speak, I am a lone wolf, well not a wolf, filthy creatures but never the less I stand alone. Past football I have my wife of the last 300 years, I mean 30, wait I mean 15? any way Nadja has always helped and supported me in my Football career, once she found out where I had run off to when I left Staten Island but I am getting side tracked. In life another mentor to me was the Baron, but as much as a mentor he was he was also a pretty fucking terrifying guy so I guess you can call him a mentor. I did spend time with Austin Hall of Famers Easton Cole and Mako Mendonca, we had a great night on the drinking together and they shared the wisdom they had accrued over their many years playing in the league. However there was a big problem, during the night on the town I must have consumed some drug blood. I mean my drink was spiked so I really cannot remember a single word of advice they gave, maybe one said 'don't eat yellow snow' but that is just common sense.
When Bruce Buckley first entered the facilities at Myrtle Beach back in season 21, he was unsure of himself and is ability, having never been part of an organised American football team before. When he met his fellow positional group, he became slightly more relieved as they were warm friendly and offered to assist Bruce in his development and progress during his time in Myrtle Beach
The men who introduced themselves as the oldest men in the positional room where Doug Quail and Simon Tremblay, they taught Bruce Buckley the basics and sculpted his technique in the ideal mould, the mould that has allowed Bruce Buckley to become one of the greatest, if not the goat of offensive lineman. It all comes back to Simon and Doug who helped Bruce Buckley become who he is. Finally, there was another mentor for Bruce Buckley who helped out Bruce when he was back in Myrtle Beach. In fact, he came back to clear out his old locker to find out that it had been passed over to Bruce. We are of course talking about Givussafarre Rubbe who being the leader of offensive lineman at the time, guided Bruce Buckley to greatness.
As a new player, I don’t think I had a true mentor. I ended up figuring a decent chunk of the league and if I had questions i didn’t really consult a single person consistently. That being said, I do have a mentor that has helped me tremendously later down in my career. As took on the KCC GM position a season ago, I felt overwhelmed with all the new information I needed to know. I was scrambling to get the audit done, bots orders, and strats set. By the time my first offseason was over, I had probably messed up on everything you possibly could as a GM. Then, at the start of the season, in comes CC offering to come help out just out of kindness and since the Minny war room was fine by itself. The amount of guidance that I got from him (and still am right now) has been invaluable and has definitely helped in bringing KCC back to life.
My biggest mentor in the ISFL was @RDBSouthPaw. Absolutely love the guy, even if he left us to go run his Halo league. Without South, I most likely would have been just another 57 TPE inactive player come DSFL draft time as I was feeling very overwhelmed with the process of updating and was not sure if the league was for me. South showed me how to update, as well as showed me the various cool things around the league that you could do. Allegedly he was pushing for me to be drafted in the Kansas City war room, although that didn't work out. When he was traded over to Portland, he instantly became one of my best friends and I eventually became his coGM. He left portland as the GM with the highest winning percentage in team history, and together I feel like we successfully shaped the Pythons into what they are today.
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