Walter Gunther, Defensive Captain of the Minnesota Grey Ducks, walks into the locker room where the rest of the team is waiting for him:
Gentleman, do you want to know why I hold the field as sacred? Why I uphold it in everything I do and say when I step in this building and in our stadium? Someone very close to me showed a museum of all the great players that have dressed for our sport. Men that moved mountains, defied odds and emerged as stronger every time they played. It was that visit to that museum that made me realize just how important this sport is and how important each and every position on a team is.
Everyday I train, everyday I play, I look to preserve and uphold the honour, dignity and respect of our sport. That field that they stand on with their dirty feet is sacred to those who truly understand this sport. I refuse to allow the image of the players of this sport to fall into ruination. Take the chances that life has handed you and if you follow me into battle, we will take down all of those in our path. For we are Grey Ducks.
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! With all that being said winning in a team sport is not about individuals it is about the team playing as a team. You got the back from your neighbors and they have yours. By doing this we will be a force that will be feared and this will take us to the promised land. So lets give our all for the team and start winning games.
back when i first joined the league there was a lot of excitement in the locker rooms. users would get fired up about stuff pregame. users would also get excited about the games in the locker rooms and would get hyped up over wins. a lot of that excitement has waned over the years ive noticed. users seem to be a lot more chill about everything inthe locker rooms now. to be honest i miss the excitement from my early days in the league. it was fun to go into the locker room before games and get everyone hyped up for the stream. it was also fun to get fired up over wins and go over the game details in the locker room after games. it was fun to get everyone excited over the team's success and encouraging everyone to earn as much as possible throughout the week. it would be nice to get some of that excitement back into the exprecience. perhaps i'll try to raise the excitement level in the locker room of my team for the rest of the season.
Team, listen up! We are the Silverbacks, we are the big gorillas that never stop never stopping and nothing will ever stop us. Pass, rush, tackle, pancakes, interceptions, turnovers, kicking balls very far too: we need to always keep working to be the best at all of these things. The other teams in the leagues are like stupid fake corn or whatever syrup and they cannot sully the wonderful stack of pancakes that is the Ultimus Bowl. We are the real maple syrup, we are the fruit and the real cream of the crop, the only ones worthy of touching this trophy. Never let anyone tell you otherwise. So let's bang our chests Donkey Kong style and go out there on the field for the rest of this season and get back to our rightful place at the top of the standings just like King Kong's rightful place is at the top of the Empire State Building that watches us every game we play!
This is not the start any of us wanted. This is not the way the Bondi Beach fans wanted to see their team perform. We know that. We hear their criticisms every day, every hour, every minute, with all the DSFL coverage and the Twitter trolls. They're loud, and they don't want this to continue. Four losses and zero wins. People look at that from the outside in and write us off. It's time to prove them wrong. It's time to show up and show out the rest of the season. If we keep at this and we keep fighting, we will get a win. We will win! We are not done here, Bucs. We need to push on, push through and show the league and the world why we were so proud to be on this team to begin with. The potential is there. We've hit rock bottom, baby, and the only way to get out is to start climbing. So let's start climbing and win some games!