Mississippi Mud Dogs. Started in Season 9 with no pee-wee experience. Lost our first game in a nail biter to a team that eventually went 16-0 and we won our next 15 games and finished 15-1. I was hooked after that. We got rocked by penalties in our second playoff game and lost and that forever changed how I created lineman for our team. The next season (10) we went 16-0, got the team on the map as a legit pee-wee team, made final four appearances in the two big tournaments of 128 and 64 teams which was cool, but again blew it in the conference conference championship and missed the inaugural Gold invite which blew. Next season we went 16-0 again and this time blew it in the League Championship to a tough Madison Muskies team. We got revenge the next season in Gold.. they got the cooler trophy. But at that time we were 47-1 during the regular season for our first three seasons. Spent the last two seasons in Gold with an overall 23-8 record which isn't bad and improved last season with a playoff win after being one and done the season prior. Still waiting on a big tourney or trophy win... actually gonna do tournies this season after basically taking last season off entirely and still making a decent season out of it.
The story of the Dharma Initiative goes back to season 8 when league 10 was first created. Serenity and I were the original two man (man and woman?) show back in season 8 before there was even a custom defense option and before more than a couple of teams were using rushing QBs. We had a decent season, but were defeated in the second round by (I believe it was) DTMCF.
In season 9 Serenity left and Miller took over the offense while I took over the defense. Custom D was still in its infancy and standard tactics like blitzing the safeties were not widely used. You could still win a lot of games using the QB rollout and we were no exception. By the end of this season, we were 15-1 and favorites to win the conference when we were beaten 20-19 by a team that we had shut out only a couple of weeks prior. We had outscored our opposition 1504-137 that season in a division that DTMCF, Deep South, and CEP all called home.
In season 10 I continued to refine the defense, and eventually took over the OAI after losing a heartbreaker 17-10 to DTMCF in the second round. After we lost we went on a scrimmage spree and challanged the best teams in Pee Wee. We lost to MMD and CEP, but we beat HHM and Short Bus and a few other top ranked teams. It was with this renewed confidence that we entered season 11 with Miller in charge of building the defense and I in charge of building the offense.
Season 11 was the first season of G/S/C leagues and we were eager to fight our way into Gold. It turned out to be not much of a fight, going 20-0 and outscoring our opposition 1710 to 92 and winning a ton of scrimmages that season as well. We lost in a couple of tournaments to Atlanta Apocalypse, Deep South Baby Makers, Short Bus Window Lickers, and He Hate Me (all top playoff Gold teams that season), but we managed to be perfect versus other Gold teams, Silver Teams, and Copper Teams. We won the first Silver Tourny and ended the season with an overall record of 38-4.
Season 12 was the worst sim that Pee Wee had ever presented. The passing game was rotten to the core and games were decided on the run and the penalties. I barely managed to stay in Gold that season and was determined to do more the next season. This was the worst season of the DI, and almost enough to make many of us quit the game.
Season 13 was a much better season. The passing improvements along with the ability to target blitzes and tag players made it a real fun season to manage. New player archetypes were emerging thanks to Bort's changes to create a player and due to the effectiveness of certain players in certain situations. I had a ton of fun, even though I lost to the eventual champs the Crabs in the first round of playoffs.
Season 14 started off rocky with some major sim changes again and with more expecting to arrive. The o-line d-line interactions severely changed again, as did several other aspects of the sim. Despite all of this, the DI went on to have a very successful season, beating the Short Bus in the Championship game due to a miraculous safety late in the fourth quarter.
Originally posted by jkid2 I would like to know from the gold owners when their first season of owning their team was and their first season that they won a conference championship or big tournament(not everyone in gold has won a league championship)
Originally posted by Biodome Originally posted by jkid2
I would like to know from the gold owners when their first season of owning their team was and their first season that they won a conference championship or big tournament(not everyone in gold has won a league championship)
Its all in there along with the rest of the team story...
...My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles. Now, I'd like to digress from my prepared remarks to discuss the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.
...you see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub and...
Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
...Anyway, about my washtub. I'd just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking-bird. We'd always have walking-bird on Thanksgiving, with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called baseball...
I discovered GLB it was season 7 (mid), owner of a pee-wee team since season 9. Season 13 was the most successful for the HHF, winner of the silver #5 league.
The Baltimore Gulls were created in season 8 and were in the Conference finals all 5 seasons and the Championship game 3 seasons. League Champs Seasons 9 & 12.
5 Season Record: Season (73-7) Playoffs (15-3)
Then we came to Gold in Season 13 and got our A$$es kicked around just barely managing to survive our first Gold season. S13 GOLD Record (5-11)