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Ben Anabender: G'Day, this is Ben, you from the ISFL
Josh Quartt: Hello Mr Ben Anabender, I'm Joshua Quartt and I'll be doing your pre-draft interview with us at the ISFL Network, not the ISFL, we're different entities. Sorry we couldn't send anyone over, we usually like to do these in person but we didn't expect you to head back home to Australia after declaring for the rookie draft. How are things today?
Ben Anabender: Ah, no wuckas mate. I'm good thanks, how do these things usually go?
Josh Quartt: Well that depends on you really, think of it as your chance to get fanbases on board with you as a pick for their team, or your last chance to put yourself out there for the teams themselves if you like.
Ben Anabender: Well Joshy mate you're the one asking the questions so I feel like you're the one who should know how this goes.
Josh Quartt: Fair enough, I have some standard questions here but I suppose we'll start of the with obvious, you're Australian, what was it like growing up in...Cairns, Queensland?
Ben Anabender: Y'know, I was just any old kid from up north, after my schooling I started spending my summers fruit picking for some cash and all that. Met a lot of yanks backpacking around me home town taking the same jobs.
Josh Quartt: So is that how you learned football?
Ben Anabender: Nah mate I learned f***in 3 different types of football tackling eachother on the school ovals, and the tackling was only illegal in one of 'em. But yeah I picked up your weird gridiron stuff from the backpackers. No shortage of movies or TV to learn it from either. That said the backpackers didn't particularly like the idea of me tackling 'em so I always wondered what all the pads I'd seen on TV were for.
Josh Quartt: So why'd you pick up the game then?
Ben Anabender: Well, you know how it goes, some bloke picks you up over a drink and you uproot for him, if you know what I mean. But yeah, fell in love so followed him around the world backpacking before ending up in the states. Spent a year on a community football team to impress the bloke and ended up impressing coaches more. In the end he wanted to keep moving round the world but I figured I liked where I was. I'm still not used to being a big shot so he had Buckleys of moving me away from it when I was just getting my first taste. It was mutual in the end and we still talk, he likes to tell me I'd still be picking fruit if it weren't for him. Shout out to you Steve.
Josh Quartt: That's a lovely story, so now let's talk about your time on that team because I understand you never went to college.
Ben Anabender: Nah yeah, I did.
Josh Quartt: But you never played in college?
Ben Anabender: Well I already had a degree from home why'd I need another?
Josh Quartt: Well, that's the usual step to get to the draft.
Ben Anabender: Seems weird, what do they give you a degree in gridiron?
Josh Quartt: No...I mean...let's move on. So you were scouted straight from some casual league?
Ben Anabender: No, no, I need to know now, was I supposed to get one of these degrees to get drafted? Am I underqualified now? F***ing all that money on coaching and c***s don't even tell me this basic s***, they KNOW I can get a degree f***ing drongos dogging me these basic...bet they've been taking me for any old bogan cos how I...
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EDIT: Too late to specify it's my first article for the 2x?
Ben Anabender: G'Day, this is Ben, you from the ISFL
Josh Quartt: Hello Mr Ben Anabender, I'm Joshua Quartt and I'll be doing your pre-draft interview with us at the ISFL Network, not the ISFL, we're different entities. Sorry we couldn't send anyone over, we usually like to do these in person but we didn't expect you to head back home to Australia after declaring for the rookie draft. How are things today?
Ben Anabender: Ah, no wuckas mate. I'm good thanks, how do these things usually go?
Josh Quartt: Well that depends on you really, think of it as your chance to get fanbases on board with you as a pick for their team, or your last chance to put yourself out there for the teams themselves if you like.
Ben Anabender: Well Joshy mate you're the one asking the questions so I feel like you're the one who should know how this goes.
Josh Quartt: Fair enough, I have some standard questions here but I suppose we'll start of the with obvious, you're Australian, what was it like growing up in...Cairns, Queensland?
Ben Anabender: Y'know, I was just any old kid from up north, after my schooling I started spending my summers fruit picking for some cash and all that. Met a lot of yanks backpacking around me home town taking the same jobs.
Josh Quartt: So is that how you learned football?
Ben Anabender: Nah mate I learned f***in 3 different types of football tackling eachother on the school ovals, and the tackling was only illegal in one of 'em. But yeah I picked up your weird gridiron stuff from the backpackers. No shortage of movies or TV to learn it from either. That said the backpackers didn't particularly like the idea of me tackling 'em so I always wondered what all the pads I'd seen on TV were for.
Josh Quartt: So why'd you pick up the game then?
Ben Anabender: Well, you know how it goes, some bloke picks you up over a drink and you uproot for him, if you know what I mean. But yeah, fell in love so followed him around the world backpacking before ending up in the states. Spent a year on a community football team to impress the bloke and ended up impressing coaches more. In the end he wanted to keep moving round the world but I figured I liked where I was. I'm still not used to being a big shot so he had Buckleys of moving me away from it when I was just getting my first taste. It was mutual in the end and we still talk, he likes to tell me I'd still be picking fruit if it weren't for him. Shout out to you Steve.
Josh Quartt: That's a lovely story, so now let's talk about your time on that team because I understand you never went to college.
Ben Anabender: Nah yeah, I did.
Josh Quartt: But you never played in college?
Ben Anabender: Well I already had a degree from home why'd I need another?
Josh Quartt: Well, that's the usual step to get to the draft.
Ben Anabender: Seems weird, what do they give you a degree in gridiron?
Josh Quartt: No...I mean...let's move on. So you were scouted straight from some casual league?
Ben Anabender: No, no, I need to know now, was I supposed to get one of these degrees to get drafted? Am I underqualified now? F***ing all that money on coaching and c***s don't even tell me this basic s***, they KNOW I can get a degree f***ing drongos dogging me these basic...bet they've been taking me for any old bogan cos how I...
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EDIT: Too late to specify it's my first article for the 2x?