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ProsecutorMilesEdgeworth wrote:
The owners have to be majorly upset with this domination, right? Like, if they win it, someone has to voice the frustration felt league wide.
Well there are 4 Expansion teams coming in a couple years, that'll certainly cut them down to size.
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The narrative going into this series was a lot less about who would win and a lot more about whether Miami could even win a single game against Texas. That narrative was thrown out the window almost immediately, though, as Miami went into halftime of Game 1 with a 12-point lead, with former Redback B/ZB Gerald Hartline scoring 36 of the Palms’ 70 points and swallowing up nearly every pass that came his way on defense. Texas fought back in the second half, narrowing the lead to 2 before who else but B/K Semarias Garcia and W/ZB Larry Whitt scored a 3-point goal and a 5-point bucket respectively to give the Redbacks a six-point Game 1 win. While obviously a win is a win is a win, it really felt like a loss for Texas; the six-point margin of victory was the slimmest they’d had all year, and they hadn’t been down by 12 points at any point in a game in over fourteen months. The Redbacks got a slightly less gut-wrenching win in a rather boring Game 2, but for Miami (and pretty much every dashball fan outside the Lone Star State), there was hope.
A good villain, though, knows exactly how and when to destroy that hope. As Texas head coach Josh Hunter told his players before Game 3, a 3-0 deficit is a million times worse than 2-0, and if the Redbacks could come out, play hard, and grab a win on the road, they’d be in firm control and would only need to avoid four consecutive losses (which they hadn’t done in eight years) to clinch a three-peat. Earning a road win is easier said than done, except if you’re the Redbacks, who made it seem easier done than said. That number one defense shut down all facets of the Palms offense, out-working, out-hustling, and simply outplaying Miami. They made time for a few highlight-reel plays too, including a spectacular fingertip save by Garcia and the most meme-worthy play of the night, where W/C Elide Amigazzi swatted a W/ZB Terry Rothgeb pass so hard that it broke Rothgeb’s nose and sent him reeling to the floor. Rothgeb did actually stay in the game, but it didn’t help the Palms, who set a new NDL postseason record by scoring only 79 points. Game 4 would be slightly less embarrassing, but it would be no more a win than any other team had managed against Texas all year, and with another unexciting but dominant win, the Redbacks completed an unprecedented 62-0 season and earned an unprecedented fifth First Trophy.
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That’s it, i’m Done. I’m serious. I loved this game but the Redbacks f’n ruined it for me.
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No Doubt the Expansion will take away the best players from Texas
Also... ALL HAIL THE REDBACKS!
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Good God, they just can't be stopped! Hopefully the expansion drafts are just from Texas, they deserve to be Browns 2.0 bad for the success they've been having.
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ZO82 wrote:
No Doubt the Expansion will take away the best players from Texas
Also... ALL HAIL THE REDBACKS!
Ok Bandwagon
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Rugrat wrote:
ZO82 wrote:
No Doubt the Expansion will take away the best players from Texas
Also... ALL HAIL THE REDBACKS!Ok Bandwagon
no bandwagon bad
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So for those of you who aren't Redbacks fans, I get it. I'm not a Redbacks fan either (I try not to root for any of my teams so I don't get biased), and I was very shocked and somewhat disappointed when the numbers broke so much in their favor this year, because I knew that the likelihood that they'd lose at all this year was slim to none. That said, I'm trying to be as fair as possible, in that I do what I think is best for each team in terms of player movement, and then I let the numbers tell the rest of the story. When I said "God is a Redbacks fan," I was only half joking, because it seems like the story the numbers want to tell is one where the Redbacks win everything all the time, even if they're just numbers and they don't know that's what they're doing. While I've considered taking drastic measures, it feels disingenuous to me to change the landscape of the entire league just because some people (myself included) don't want the Redbacks to be going 62-0 over the course of a season. (By the way, it could have been worse - Texas could have held on to Gerald Hartline, who beat out several elite former teammates for MVP this year.)
For those of you who are Redbacks fans, I'm sorry you had to read all that, and I'm sure you're anxious to let everyone know just how much better you are than everyone else, so go nuts:
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I can't be too mad at this...audiences enjoy watching a particular sport/league the most when there's a dynasty for locals to be proud of and others to root against.
Besides, if Milwaukee gets a team in the expansion, I will gloat of their successes every bit as much as the Redbacks fans are doing here.