During the last ISFL expansion with the New York Silverbacks and the Berlin Fire Salamanders, the Sarasota Sailfish had no room to protect me so that put me on the board for the expansion draft, with Blago Kokot (now Yellowknife's starting kicker) the kicker in Sarasota's wings to replace me if I left, I waited to see if I would end up going to Berlin or New York. However, as the expansion draft went on I was spared, Berlin took Karmichael Hunt and New York took Dougie Smalls keeping me on the Sailfish and keeping us on track to our eventual Ultimus victory just a few seasons later. Now 3 seasons on, New York still has Dougie Small and Berlin now has Danny King kicking for them. And while this is just one small segment of the expansion draft, it is very interesting thinking about how many current stars were not protected because they were still unknown or rookies, and how many early retirees were protected. The next expansion will probably be the same as the last with many picks becoming new stars for their new teams, and many new stars staying on their old team because they are not yet stars; whenever that might be, it will be another interesting development for our league.
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