The thing that got me into the league and has kept me around is the outstanding community. The original S22 Dallas Birddogs team was wonderful - the locker room was new and so we had a lot of room to really establish our own personalities since there weren't a lot of senddowns or veteran members dominating the space. Since then I've always looked at "success" in the league as a metric of the community and its engagement - whether its in a personal locker room I'm in or across some of the general and other offshot chats that exist around the league. When I was General Manager in Dallas I never weighed success based off whether the team was winning, although that was something that was exciting to see and experience. Instead I judged success based off how many members we had engaging in the locker room and how many people we were getting hooked on the league and the experience it brings. Some of the best moments were when we'd have a member we never thought would be active end up updating and becoming engaged. It was always wonderful to see some of the higher draft picks really hit and start investing their time into the league too. The more people investing time into the league the better the league is as a whole.
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