08-17-2023, 07:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2023, 05:35 PM by Bazooka_Joe. Edited 2 times in total.)
As the story goes with every SIM league im sitting here wondering where I am going to get my source of money for this wonderful league. So, like every lame user i'm going to write and introduction to my player and rank/ rename every team in the league to see if I can start a war with all of you users. Or just to hear your opinions on it.
Joe Bazooka comes from a small town in Ireland named Tullamore. Just about 60 miles west of Dublin the city is not well known by tourist. It does have a unique whiskey company named Tullamore Dew though and has been gaining popularity since it's return in 2014. When Bazooka was a young lad Ireland did not have many football options as Rugby was popular back in the day. Joe excelled in rugby and landed on The Offaly County official team. County Offaly ended up winning with Bazooka as one of their main stars. Still, Bazooka wanted to experience more. He had one offer to play football come in and that was from the great continent of Antartica. Bazooka Turned down not only offers from other great colleges to play rugby but also baseball. He was a lefthanded hurler who could touch 97 by the end of High school. But Football was his love and had to work out.
Playing in Antartica has people wondering. The Continent is cold but not cold enough for some football. The University of Antartica had six different teams running off of it that formed The Antartica Football Union. Most of who attended the University of Antartica were online students, but all the athletes showed up to school. In this Union league the six teams were formed by bases around the Continent.
Team one: McMurdo Base Mountaineers
Team two: Amundson Base Emperors
Team Three: Mawson Base Elephant Seals
Theam Four: Troll Base Vikings
Team Five: Concordia Base Freeze
Team Six: Belgrano Base Reindeer
This league has only been around for a year before Joe showed up and was gaining a little traction as anyone in the world could broadcast this league. Snow games were every day and for a Running back to be successful in this league he needs a solid Offensive line. Bazooka was determined to show his worth. In his first year he led the Mountaineers to a 10-2 record and winning the Antartica Union regular season championship. In those twelve games Bazooka ran for 3,101 yards and 18 Touchdowns earning him easily the regular season MVP award. In the Playoffs he continued his historic season by winning the Antartica Championship and had a combined yardage of 988 yards in three games to get the Mountaineers the South Pole Cup. In the Sout Pole Championship the Vikings had no answer for Bazooka and earned him MVP of the Championship as well. With a clean sweep and an outstanding Rookie year ton of leagues reached out as well as endorsements. The Antartica Union was determined to make Joe the poster boy of their league and did so by signing him to the highest NIL deal anyone was offered at the time. They wanted kids to come to Antartica to play football and what better way than to get Bazooka's name out there.
The following year Bazooka came shooting out of a cannon as some may say. Not only was he gaining yards on the ground he showed his receiving skills out of the backfield have become elite. Joe led the Mountaineers to an amazing 11-1 season and as you can guess he broke his own records set the previous season. Rushing for over 3,600 yards with 22 total touchdowns Joe's receiving game was crazy as well as he caught 66 passes for 866 yards. As you can guess the Mountaineers cleaned swept the playoffs again and Bazooka was named MVP for back-to-back seasons and won another ring.
Joe had accomplished everything he wanted. But one thing was left...
He wanted to take the ISFL by storm. Unfortunately, the Antartica season did not end in time for him to throw his name into the draft where he would have easily been a top five pick even with an unknown league he was coming from. So, Bazooka went straight to waivers where the London Royals came calling. London was a perfect spot for Bazooka to land as he was finally close to home and could fly his family out to watch his every game. An already decorated player is ready to make heads spin in this league.
I really enjoy team names and ranking them for each league. It's always interested me since I was a kid playing NCAA football on my original Xbox. Yes, I am old. I would create my own school and their jerseys. I remember my dad telling me that my grandma was born in Golva, North Dakota and I would make a team from there or a team from Pittsburg Kansas because that's where my grandpa was born. The mascot was always the hardest it always included the Tigers, Spartans or Mountaineers I felt. One of my all-time favorites was a team I made named the Puget Sound Rebels because I grew up and still live in the Great Pacific Northwest.
One thing I don't like but sometimes works is having the same letter start off both the city name and mascot name. Example is Sarasota Sailfish, both starting with "S" it just feels kind of lazy and a lot of teams do this. Again, I am not saying whoever named the Sailfish is Lazy but it's just a pet peeve of mine. Ones that I feel work were the Seattle Super Sonics back in the day.
So, without further ado
ISFL Teams only:
14- Sarasota: I like the colors, but a fish is not my cup of tea. Swordfish is unique and in no way does this mean I hate the team. Like I explained up at the top having the same start of the city and mascot with the same letter just makes me uncomfortable. Also, what makes me uncomfortable is having a fish for a mascot on a football team. Reminds me of a bird... oh wait.
13- Orange County: I will hand it to them. Otters, is a name you don't see too often but when I think of Orange County and actually being there before an Otter is the last thing that comes to mind. Orang colors is a huge plus to me though but only good enough for 13th on my list.
12 - Arizona: Outlaws is a solid name for a football team. The colors are solid as well. Just reminds me of the old wild west and it makes a lot of sense. Nothing really pops for me though.
11- Baltimore: Hawks. It's a hawk... I don't really know where else to go or say from here.
10- NOLA: I wanted to rank them higher. I get the whole Second Line for parades and have been in one when I was in jazz band in high school. It's a firm name but may leave people scratching their heads. But then again, who cares! you do you and this is a heck of a logo and color scheme.
9- Honolulu: To have this come in at nine was tough. This could have easily been five for me, but I settled on this. Love the logo and name... I'm actually not a fan of the color scheme. The blue and yellow can certainly work on a uniform but I'm not feeling these shades, I guess.
8- San Jose: We need more Sabercats in leagues. Like a damn power ranger kind of feel. Maybe it's because it's another California team but I put them at eight. Really like the colors and logo.
7- Chicago: Keeping with the theme of well let's chop up some bodies? animals? or people who write stupid articles? It's not the best logo but the colors pop and I enjoy how different it is.
6- Colorado: Finally starting to get into where I didn't know where to rank these teams. The "C" in the background for Colorado is pretty cool but I'm a Harry and the Henderson's kind of guy and Bigfoot or yes... Yeti is only in Washington state... Fight me!
5- Austin: Possibly my favorite color scheme of the bunch. Pretty simple logo and it should not be changed, does well for uniforms and helps the logo pop. Solid. solid. solid.
4- Berlin: At number four just because I really like the overseas teams. We need more teams not in the states. It's a sim league go crazy with it and why stop there. Don't do cities, do territories or get creative. I like the team's name as well. Things you don't see too often. I would be a real-life Fire Salamanders fan!
3- Cape Town: I'm going to be a huge homer here just because of the purple and gold for the University of Washington. This is the best color scheme in all of sports I feel. Can never go wrong with it and the Rhino is a great football mascot.
2- New York: I saw a picture of the uniform and instantly fell in love with this team name and logo. The colors are simple but work so well. The logo instantly pops on the helmet, and it makes you want to wear one in real life.
1- Yellow Knife: I learned a few things about this. Yellow Knife is up near Great Slave Lake and that place is cold as balls in the wintertime. Like Antarctica. The city and the team's name just work so well for me, and I absolutely love it. Again, it's out of the states and Wraiths is hardly ever if ever used.
Just a PSA. This ranking means nothing, and I would feel honored to play for any of these teams. Thanks for reading.
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Joe Bazooka comes from a small town in Ireland named Tullamore. Just about 60 miles west of Dublin the city is not well known by tourist. It does have a unique whiskey company named Tullamore Dew though and has been gaining popularity since it's return in 2014. When Bazooka was a young lad Ireland did not have many football options as Rugby was popular back in the day. Joe excelled in rugby and landed on The Offaly County official team. County Offaly ended up winning with Bazooka as one of their main stars. Still, Bazooka wanted to experience more. He had one offer to play football come in and that was from the great continent of Antartica. Bazooka Turned down not only offers from other great colleges to play rugby but also baseball. He was a lefthanded hurler who could touch 97 by the end of High school. But Football was his love and had to work out.
Playing in Antartica has people wondering. The Continent is cold but not cold enough for some football. The University of Antartica had six different teams running off of it that formed The Antartica Football Union. Most of who attended the University of Antartica were online students, but all the athletes showed up to school. In this Union league the six teams were formed by bases around the Continent.
Team one: McMurdo Base Mountaineers
Team two: Amundson Base Emperors
Team Three: Mawson Base Elephant Seals
Theam Four: Troll Base Vikings
Team Five: Concordia Base Freeze
Team Six: Belgrano Base Reindeer
This league has only been around for a year before Joe showed up and was gaining a little traction as anyone in the world could broadcast this league. Snow games were every day and for a Running back to be successful in this league he needs a solid Offensive line. Bazooka was determined to show his worth. In his first year he led the Mountaineers to a 10-2 record and winning the Antartica Union regular season championship. In those twelve games Bazooka ran for 3,101 yards and 18 Touchdowns earning him easily the regular season MVP award. In the Playoffs he continued his historic season by winning the Antartica Championship and had a combined yardage of 988 yards in three games to get the Mountaineers the South Pole Cup. In the Sout Pole Championship the Vikings had no answer for Bazooka and earned him MVP of the Championship as well. With a clean sweep and an outstanding Rookie year ton of leagues reached out as well as endorsements. The Antartica Union was determined to make Joe the poster boy of their league and did so by signing him to the highest NIL deal anyone was offered at the time. They wanted kids to come to Antartica to play football and what better way than to get Bazooka's name out there.
The following year Bazooka came shooting out of a cannon as some may say. Not only was he gaining yards on the ground he showed his receiving skills out of the backfield have become elite. Joe led the Mountaineers to an amazing 11-1 season and as you can guess he broke his own records set the previous season. Rushing for over 3,600 yards with 22 total touchdowns Joe's receiving game was crazy as well as he caught 66 passes for 866 yards. As you can guess the Mountaineers cleaned swept the playoffs again and Bazooka was named MVP for back-to-back seasons and won another ring.
Joe had accomplished everything he wanted. But one thing was left...
He wanted to take the ISFL by storm. Unfortunately, the Antartica season did not end in time for him to throw his name into the draft where he would have easily been a top five pick even with an unknown league he was coming from. So, Bazooka went straight to waivers where the London Royals came calling. London was a perfect spot for Bazooka to land as he was finally close to home and could fly his family out to watch his every game. An already decorated player is ready to make heads spin in this league.
I really enjoy team names and ranking them for each league. It's always interested me since I was a kid playing NCAA football on my original Xbox. Yes, I am old. I would create my own school and their jerseys. I remember my dad telling me that my grandma was born in Golva, North Dakota and I would make a team from there or a team from Pittsburg Kansas because that's where my grandpa was born. The mascot was always the hardest it always included the Tigers, Spartans or Mountaineers I felt. One of my all-time favorites was a team I made named the Puget Sound Rebels because I grew up and still live in the Great Pacific Northwest.
One thing I don't like but sometimes works is having the same letter start off both the city name and mascot name. Example is Sarasota Sailfish, both starting with "S" it just feels kind of lazy and a lot of teams do this. Again, I am not saying whoever named the Sailfish is Lazy but it's just a pet peeve of mine. Ones that I feel work were the Seattle Super Sonics back in the day.
So, without further ado
ISFL Teams only:
![SAR SAR](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/SAR_thumb.png)
![OCO OCO](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/OCO_thumb.png)
![ARI ARI](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/ARI_thumb.png)
![BAL BAL](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/BAL_thumb.png)
![NOLA NOLA](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/NOLA_thumb.png)
![HON HON](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/HON_thumb.png)
![SJS SJS](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/SJS_thumb.png)
![CHI CHI](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/CHI_thumb.png)
![COL COL](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/COL_thumb.png)
![AUS AUS](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/AUS_thumb.png)
![BER BER](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/BER_thumb.png)
![CTC CTC](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/CTC_thumb.png)
![NYS NYS](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/NYS_thumb.png)
![YKW YKW](https://forums.sim-football.com/images/smilies/isfl/YKWnew_thumb.png)
Just a PSA. This ranking means nothing, and I would feel honored to play for any of these teams. Thanks for reading.
Words: 1643
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