07-24-2022, 08:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-24-2022, 08:21 PM by moonlight. Edited 1 time in total.)
Big Slammu grew up in Jackson, Wyoming and he's used to playing football in the elements. Heck, he prefers it. It was odd for him that in the ISFL, teams are forced to play in neutral conditions. According to Big Slammu, football is meant to be played in the elements and I think many football fans agree. Baseball is for spring and summer and football is meant for fall and winter. That's the way these two great American games were meant to be played as the seasons developed throughout the year. With the ISFL dedication to neutrality, it's sucked the fun out of many things that have made the game of football unique. Football isn't a game of neutrality, but instead a passionate experience involving the highs and lows of emotion, and inclement weather, the very opposite of the neutrality enforced by the ISFL. To Big Slammu, it's been quite the shame!
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This past week my air conditioning went out. I came home from work Wednesday and thought it was ab it hot in my apartment but figured I'd punch the air down a few notches and it would be fine by the time I finished a shower. When I got out, it was still sweltering. Living the last week without air conditioning has taught me that intense heat - up to 95 depending on the time of day in my apartment - is absolutely no joke. That being said, I think the correct answer here for what weather would be most impactful on the season is rain. Snow is cold and can be difficult to run in but grounds crews can do their best to keep the field clean and in a lot of professional stadiums they actually can heat the field. Rain, however, is blinding, reduces field conditions in a way that can't easily be fixed, and makes everything hard to hold onto. The heat is bad, but professional teams play in Jacksonville in real life and Sarasota here - you would assume some players would be used to intense heat.
Breaking news! The ISFL has decided to tear off all of the dome coverings on the stadiums around the league and move from an energy-intensive, climate controlled arena environment to open air stadiums for each and every team. This is going to create some very interesting environmental impacts on games for seasons to come.
Down South in Sarasota, we’ve been preparing for this moment for years. Our players typically train out in the open air as a way of increasing their conditioning to improve their game performance in the domes. Moving the games into the open air will provide quite the additional home field advantage for Sarasota as teams from less humid and cooler climates travel down South to face the Sailfish. They’ll be subjected to temperatures on game day that they aren’t acclimated to while the Sailfish will be in their element and able to play an effective four quarters while most away teams will run out of gas in the second half due to heat exhaustion. Code: 168 words
Strictly speaking about the Philadelphia Liberty, the biggest swing on the season would probably be when warm weather state/country teams, which the International Simulation Football League only has a few of, play in Philadelphia. Sadly for Philadelphia, most of the warm weather teams play in the American Simulation Football Conference, so it's the roll of the dice whether they get to have that very so slight advantage during the season. The only warm weather state/country that is in the Liberty's conference, the National Simulation Football Conference, is the Sarasota Sailfish, so realistic weather probably wouldn't have much of a factor for their season in this regard, the only good thing that would come out of realistic weather is a snow game or two, but there's plenty of teams that would also have snow games, if not have more than Philadelphia, since they're in places where it snows a lot more often.
- Weather is pretty well rounded in Maryland. I think they would probably do alright most places.
- Less weather more time zone factor. I think this would be a huge advantage when playing at home. - It gets cold in the windy city but they probably play in a dome. Because they're a bunch of pansies. Especially @Painted - Definite home field advantage due to the altitude. Maybe they have 5 wins now idk. - Again not so much the weather but the fans. Would probably be booing the crap out of this season's team causing them to have a worse record. - Definitely a fair-weather team. I see them struggling in the cold and having a worse record. - Would dominate warm climate teams at home. Definitely struggle at warm weather stadiums like Arizona. - Ain't no heat like in AZ. Trust me I know. Would start off great when the weather is hot but probably end poorly when the eather is mild. Much like the NFL's AZ team. Big sad. Well that's more than 150 words so that's all I got. Code: 184 words -------------------
Currently all ISFL teams play inside domes that block teams from extreme weather conditions. If this were to change, certain teams would have to massively alter their game plans each week. For example Yellowknife. The Yellowknife Wraiths play in the Northwest Territories Province in Canada. This city does not get out of below zero for almost four to six months out of the year, and the football season is played during those months. Know the Ice Bowl? Now imagine that every week, but about 10 degrees colder and a good sheet of snow. Yellowknife themselves would likely be required to build their stadium as a dome if it wasn't already required as this would legitimately be hazardous to people's health. On the flipside you have Sarasota, who like their IRL brethren in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Miami Dolphins play in hell, also known as the state of Florida. There have been frequent instances of excessive heat and humidity in Fins and Bucs games to the point I remember one person collapsed because of triple digit heat during a game in September. At least with Sarasota that gets tempered somewhat in the later months
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