Warrior General Games

Ah yes, that heady smell of history is in the air!

Does anyone else remember their first game on GLB? I do. Season 2 Game 1. I remember the key play of the game like it was 5 minutes ago (yeah, ok, so I re-watched it 5 minutes ago! Sue me!):

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=25430&pbp_id=1256328

Yes indeed, we yawned our way through a completion to Shea Arellano (who?) as he bumped into Coleman Swain (re-who?) and then out-jogged him to the EZ. Even back then Ser Ilyn Payne, that redoubtable headsman, was hacking them wide. We lost this one by a single point and the fires of revenge were awakened, a fiery beast roused, and the icy resolve eh, resolved to utterly crush these zebra-striped whipper-snappers should our paths ever cross again!

Ah yes, those were the days! The days where a startup franchise of level 1s could go 9-7 and slip into some playoff panties. And who should we meet in round 1? Why, it's our good friends the GRD!! So nice to see you again! Now picture this: We have pretty much whipped our kicker for an entire season for losing us Game 1, slagging, joking, and references about his mother are rife on the team boards. What could he possibly do to redeem himself in our eyes?

Ser Ilyn Payne 12 - 10 GRD.

Second-last drive, 1.45 on the clock and SIP boots us ahead by 2 (his third FG of the 4 qtr). Surely there's no time left for GRD to get back into it? Down by 2, 4th and 4.5 on your opponents' 36.5 with 1.12 on the clock. That's a bit far for a FG attempt, you decide to go for it. The season rests on this play.....

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=35210&pbp_id=4668423

Yes, that was yours truely stepping up with the PD. And there was much rejoycing! Whatever else happened in the subsequent playoff games didn't matter, GRD were defeated and many virtual high fives were administered. [FYI, we won out and promoted, in your face Permian Panthers!]

Season 3 was a wasteland of grudge matche dearthiness though we did receive many gifts of our own asses handed to us. Very thoughtful, fellow AAA colleagues! Much to our delight, our "friends" at GRD took a leaf from the book of promotion and left behind them much gnashing of teeth, especially in Permia.

So Season 4 would see the return of our beeaitches to their priviliged position under our thumbs. Apparently they were still smarting from their just desserts and were "up for it"! Jolly good! No sooner had Narkle shouted "Tally Ho!" they were 7 up but this strange turn of events was not to last long. After a gruelling match the dancing teacher, Syrio Forel, put the result to rest whith this little beauty:

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=85856&pbp_id=5032236

Oh there were 3 more TDs in the game after that but they were just padding. By that point we had a dead zebra walking, just not intelligent enough to know it was dead. Kinda like the headless chicken thing. Stupid zebra. We finished the season against a small provincial team from PPP in the Conference Final.

Season 5 came with GRD determined to show it's metal. I'd show you GRD's key score in this one but the replays don't show FGs. "Why was it a key score?" I hear you ask with baited breath! Beacuse it was their only one. 3-1 to the Ice & Fire and a trip to the Conference finals against some guys from Berlin. Was this a trend? Beat GRD: get to the Conf Finals? Maybe it was time to break them off some? What do you think? I mean they hadn't beaten us since a missed PAT on day 1 of season 2!

Unfortunatly the GLB Gods decided that our scheduled game for Season 6 wasn't to be, as we left GRD lagging behind, checking out our butts like a group of highschool nerds as we were shunted up to Pro during The Big Shuffle of Season 6. So we did give the GRD a break, a season sadly lacking in asswhuppery.

And so we come to season 7 and the GLB equivalent to Everton Vs Liverpool, a clash where league form goes out the window and only vitriol, bile, small-minded stubbornness and a certain amount of inbreeding count, as these moderately sized behemoths from WE Pro Zeta go head to head once more.

It's squeaky bum time once again so don't drop the soap!

A Team of Ice and Fire vs. Grass Root Divots
http://goallineblitz.com/game/compare_teams.pl?team1=1900&team2=1903


PS: The management reserves the right to edit any and all parts of this post once the result becomes known. Usual deniabiliy applies.

57 vs 54 - there. The game's decided that you're going to win. There's no way out of it for us. If you don't beat us then you should hang your collective heads in shame.

Beating us is piss easy if you know what you're doing. (Which, apparently, you guys do).

Ps - just looked at the first game highlight. Can't believe we had so many CPUs in on that play. And how slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowly everyone moves. Almost as slow as Bergman nowadays.

Any way, fair play to you Ms Stark. Nice little rundown there. Although it's easier when you've been on the winning side since (after) day one.

I see the editing has already begun. Is your story straight yet?

Tis a good run down there too.

As to the Liverpool/Everton, I wasn't happy that Everton sneaked that late equalizer. It's a bit tough when it's one of your National players doing the point stealing too.

Originally posted by Narkle
Almost as slow as Bergman nowadays.

Aye, my guard is faster than your cornerback.

I've been looking forward to this ever since we got promoted. I have my foam finger and my bear-can-holder hat with the two straws at the ready. Can the Divots reverse the trend, reduce the number of stripey-arsed moments, and pull one back in the series? Only time will tell.

I still can't believe that last quarter in the season 2 playoff game. We had it in the bag...

Looking at the second replay reminds me what a pile of poo that long-named quarterback of ours was. Fucking Pass it to the wide-open Hayes. You ponce!

Thank the lord we got a decent quarterback when we got promoted.

Originally posted by Sonic
I see the editing has already begun. Is your story straight yet?

Tis a good run down there too.

As to the Liverpool/Everton, I wasn't happy that Everton sneaked that late equalizer. It's a bit tough when it's one of your National players doing the point stealing too.

Editing was for spelling but reading back I can see that I probably need to re-edit. :shakes head:

Was watching the derby too. Sick I was. Sick.

Love it...reminds me of Antwerp, Rivals....where specific plays define a rivalry (or what used to be a rivalry )

Man I'm nervous - We've tried something a bit wacky today as otherwise I fear we would have our asses handed to us, this way I have genuinely no idea what will happen... but I suspect it will be 3-2 after today!

Great write up Owen btw!

I'm getting psyched too... 40 minutes to go! This will make or break my day, sad to say.

Come on the Divots! Will our running game finally come to life today? Will our defence hold out? Or will Tiffany's wacky strategy out-whack us?

I've got the game open in another tab, in watch mode, waiting for the clock to tick down to results time.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=290818&mode=pbp&hide=1

Our first season we got to face the Ballers, my how times have changed: http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=5100
We get to face off with them again and yeah Joe, ours was a rivalry for the ages, hopefully one day we can start upholding our end of it again!

Originally posted by Boony
I'm getting psyched too... 40 minutes to go! This will make or break my day, sad to say.

Come on the Divots! Will our running game finally come to life today? Will our defence hold out? Or will Tiffany's wacky strategy out-whack us?

I've got the game open in another tab, in watch mode, waiting for the clock to tick down to results time.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=290818&mode=pbp&hide=1

once the sim starts i'm checking if my guys can train so that i know the game has simmed n then i go to a players game log, block the screen except for yeer team name - move my mouse to the right - and click when i see the http address appear on the bottom right and then click on that still blocking the screen so the box score/play by play links come up and then i quickly click on the first play by play 'replay' link so i see the game early and don't know the result.

i could have typed that much better but evrey second i spend here is delaying me watching the game potentially!

Ouch.

Why couldn't we have a rivalry with a team we could run close every so often? This is like macclesfield deciding their going to be rivals with Man Utd.

I said it was easy to beat us if you know what you're doing. Apparently I was right.

Shocking. I think my punter was our best player today... There's rumours of a quarterback controversy in the sleepy city of Grass Root, as backup Tarkenton is consistently putting up better numbers than incumbent Irons.

Well played, though, Tiffany. Did you grease your jerseys with Vaseline™ before the start of the game?