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jrsechelon · 3 years

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Super Bowl XIV

After surviving 2020, the final two remaining teams left in the Elite Fantasy League will look to start the new year on the right foot as Super Bowl XIV is determined. The historic Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, was supposed to be the location for Super Bowl XIV, but like many things in 2020, the year of the pandemic. The Super Bowl has had to change venues. Among the dawning of a new year and Super Bowl week, the EFL had to find a new location that would be available and abide by COVID-19 state protocol. Due to the overwhelming cases in California - as we enter the new year and Super Bowl Sunday, the state of California and the city of Pasadena alerted the commissioner of the Elite Fantasy League. It almost seemed like the Super Bowl may not have happened. Luckily amongst the chaos and the hardships, we have faced in 2020 - the Super Bowl will go on! The Elite Fantasy League will pay the city of Pasadena $2 million to help with its expenses and lost revenue as a result of the game being relocated. But Pasadena officials said the game “will not relocate again in the future when set to be played in Pasadena unless it is forced to due to a national emergency.” With that being said, like one of the teams in the Super Bowl, the Elite Fantasy League has had to find a new location to play their biggest game - inside of AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Back-to-back media days have spawned a surplus of questions heading into this week’s Super Bowl. Can The Canadian Cripplers defense figure out a way to slow down Derrick Henry and Yuba City Sultans' historically potent offense?

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Will the Sultans rejuvenated pass rush continue its recent surge against a Cripplers offensive line that has protected Brady better than any other offensive line has protected their quarterback in the last three weeks? How will Myles Gaskin fare against Kyle Van Noy and Christian Wilkins? How about this one: Will the game even be close? Las Vegas doesn’t seem to think so, and no we're not talking about Black Hole Son; we're talking about the bookies and betting odds of this game. Some want to believe that this Super Bowl will be close, one analyst predicted an 8-point game, with The Canadian Cripplers and Tom Brady capping off a remarkably magical season. Many though have Yuba City Syltans as the favorite. Las Vegas has the Sultans a 20-point favorite, according to Vegas-Insider and if betting lines aren’t your thing, history doesn’t bode well for a close match-up either. In both of their Week 1 and Week 11 games, the winner of those two respective games, won by at least 2-touchdowns or more. Since the creation of the Elite Fantasy League, there have been 13 Super Bowl games. Ten of them have been decided by 21 points or more while, only three have been decided by 3 points. Sure, there have been some thrillers. HellbentKronik's win by 3 points on a game-winning field goal kick over Thunderbuddy4Life in 2017 - Super Bowl X was a classic, while last year's Super Bowl came down to the wire with Black Hole Son narrowly holding on by 2 points over LilShupeScoresBIGPoints. However, most of the Super Bowl match-ups have been duds. Super Bowl I, and II both with The Canadian Cripplers in them, were duds. At the time, known as The Omega Ones, The Canadian Cripplers were embarrassed by Rainelo Hawks in Super Bowl I only to return the next year in Super Bowl II and wipe the floor with Evolution. No one scored as much as the Sultans this season, which scored 1,491.00 in the season, 199.00 more than The Canadian Cripplers. The Sultans averages over 68.7 points a game — 14.5 points higher than The Canadian Cripplers average. Although these teams traded wins in the regular season, Las Vegas bookies seem to believe the Sultans will run roughshod on the Cripplers. Though, the bookies have been wrong before. The history of the Super Bowl is usually a one-sided affair.

While Las Vegas has Yuba City Sultans as the clear favorites, you cannot count out The Canadian Cripplers. After all, they have TB12 leading the way on Super Bowl Sunday. Statistically, Brady's thrown for 36 touchdowns, his highest total since 2015, while totaling 4,234 yards and completing 65.9 percent of his passes. The 43-year-old quarterback has both played well and made a good impression on his team. To borrow a classic song from "Aladdin," it certainly seems like it's a whole new world for Tom Brady and the rest of the Cripplers in Tampa. For starters, Brady's Cripplers are back in the Super Bowl for the first time in 12 years and looking to win it all since their Super Bowl II victory after the 2008 season. The 43-year-old seems to be reinvigorated by his move to Tampa. And that includes his approach to working with younger teammates, something his head coach continues to be impressed with, "It's been a joy. It's been awesome," said Cripplers coach during Wednesday morning appearance on media day. "I didn't know that Tom took so much time with younger players and coached them up. It's been a dream and a wild ride that we're thankful to have been apart of." Regardless of how this season ends, having Brady as their quarterback and the chance to allow him to coach up younger players has been a godsend to a team that seemed unlikely to make much noise this year. While it makes sense that players would want to soak up any information that the future Hall of Famer is willing to pass along, hearing about Brady's enthusiasm for coaching young players might surprise some fans. After all, Brady sometimes was reluctant to throw to young receivers and drew criticism for not participating in OTAs. Through this year of COVID, the lack of OTAs and preseason games hindered Brady's ability to build chemistry early and often. The move from Thunderbay, Ontario, Canada to Tampa Bay, Florida was another hurdle we all believed would hinder this team and their chemistry, for The Canadian Cripplers though, it was a move that would only make them stronger. "We knew we had an opportunity here, an opportunity to build and block out the noise. Many on the outside deemed us as pretenders, a small fish in a pond full of big fish - we knew that if we can band together during these trying times, we could rise above the adversity and prove many people wrong." Canadian Cripplers coach stated. Tom Brady took to media day with a certain calm about him we've seen before. He was his usual calm self on Super Bowl media day.

Brady Is Ready

"I like to think of this as just another game. Yes, it's important. But it's important for me to not allow it to become something bigger than myself, than my teammates, than any other game. I've been here before, I know what it takes to win, other guys don't have the privilege to have that experience, for me, it's keeping the other ten guys in that huddle in the moment. That's what it's all about now." Brady knows he's the one the rest of the team will be looking to in the clutch moments. He knows that it'll fall on his shoulders on Sunday and he's ready for the challenge. "It's all about tempo and knowing when the defense is changing the call at the line, you got to be one step ahead of them. We know how bad these guys want it, we're just going to want it a little bit more." Tom Brady has a great opportunity for huge points this week, too. In clutch moments Brady rises above and beyond the call. Brady has been pretty great since his loss to Buds Bums ins Week 13. He’s had at least two touchdown passes in every game since. He’s had 345-plus passing yards in three of his last four. Brady is playing to win, and we love him for it. The Greatest of all Time is looking to cap off what possibly might be his final Super Bowl in only Tom Brady fashion. While Brady is a big part of the story for The Canadian Cripplers, the offensive line should be getting the majority of the headlines. Recognition can be hard to come by for offensive linemen, so it’s easy to understand why this is a big matchup for rookie Christian Wirfs and the rest of the Cripplers line. When it comes to evaluating the men on the Cripplers roster tasked with protecting Brady, it would be easy to feel some pessimism or uncertainty about this unit. But when you break things down, there's plenty to like about the group that they've assembled. Brady has been sacked the least out of any quarterback this season - he's been able to have time in the pocket to stretch his receivers downfield, and it's all thanks to the linemen in front of him. Although the praise is thrown Brady's way, the line should get the nod and a round of applause. Adding Tristan Wirfs has helped a great deal but beyond that, this stretch of protection has simply helped Brady play better. The opportunity to showcase the elite core in front of Brady on Sunday isn't lost on Wirfs, he will have excellent help from Guards Zack Bailey and Aaron Stinnie, Center Anthony Fabiano, and Tackles Brad Seaton and Josh Wells who will all be looking to make a statement come Sunday. The offense isn't just built on Brady and the offensive line, this team has solid receivers, a great running game that is versatile in the backfield on the ground and through the air. The defense looked promising last week in the Championship game against a stout offense led by Josh Allen. They are in a prime position to shock the world - but they will need to be near perfect against a team across the field that can strike at any time, not just on offense, but defense and special teams. The Canadian Cripplers were an afterthought early in the year, ranked as one of the worst teams, they have undoubtedly proved the doubters wrong already. Win or lose they have had a remarkable season, a season that many believed was over after the draft. The Canadian Cripplers are playing their best ball in years and even though they've had hurdles to jump over, they've been able to clear them all so far. Their biggest hurdle is in front of them, can they clear one last and clear the finish line come Sunday?

Yuba City Sultans were thought to be all but finished. November 20th was the trade deadline, Yuba City Sultans were selling and selling hard. They had trades lined up to send Derrick Henry, Nick Chubb, and several others to teams that were vying for a postseason berth. The Sultans had trades lined up but they fell through in the final hours as the deadline came and went. The Sultans had a healthy Nick Chubb returning and a ticked-off Derrick Henry knowing he was about to be traded. Instead of imploding, they like The Canadian Cripplers rose above the adversity and began to work. At 5-6-0 as the trade deadline came and went and Week 12 began, Yuba City Sultans were on a 3-game winning streak which extended to a 6-game winning streak and even more so counting postseason games. With a total of an 8-game winning streak now, Yuba City Sultans have completely turned their season around. While they dug their heels into the ground and worked to turn their season around, Derrick Henry has been a huge contributor to their late-season success. Derrick Henry has reached a milestone that has been a storyline since the start of this season but truly came on after Week 12. In his last seven games, Henry has stormed away with it, rushing for 100 yards or more four times and more than 200 yards once. Not only has Henry been leading this backfield, toying with defenders and punishing them with violent stiff arms - but Nick Chubb has helped lift a lot of the weight Derrick Henry was feeling early in the season off his shoulders. I'm not clued into the game plan for Sunday's game, but the Sultans want to be better on the ground than they were last week and in their previous meeting with the Steelers (75 rushing yards, the second-lowest total of the season). It's never been about yards and stats for Yuba City Sultans. It's about keeping the opponent on its toes and unable to surmise what you're going to do on a given play. So when the Sultans are struggling on the ground, their ability to keep teams guessing decreases. Still, there's plenty to like from what Chubb and Henry have been able to accomplish as one of the EFL's best running back duos.

Henry/Chubb Duel Threat

They're the only duo of RBs in the league with 800+ yards apiece. Their 22 combined touchdowns are the third-most in the league, Chubb is quick and able to fake out defenders creating wide-open lanes to run through, he not only has quick speed, but he is also able to catch out of the backfield - an excellent change-up compared to Derrick Henry's black and blue bruising running style. Although this team relies heavily on the run, another reason why they were able to turn their season around and push to their first Super Bowl was the unique play at quarterback over the last few weeks. Although Jalen Hurts has taken the reigns and gives this team the RPO play-action - Tysom Hill is the guy you have to give credit to where credit is due. Hill was able to lift this team out of the basement of the South-East division and position them into a Wildcard berth. Although Tysom has a playmaking ability that is unique to himself, Jalen Hurts gives you more options. Tysom should and deserves credit for placing this team in the spot they find themselves in just Hurts took the reigns two weeks ago and haven't looked back. Some have complained about Hurts' fumbles over the last two weeks but Tysom Hill led the league in fumbles while playing quarterback for Yuba City Sultans - you never heard anyone complain then. Perhaps because people didn't expect this team to make it to the Super Bowl then. Expecting Hurts to be a finished product right now is just silly. Expecting any rookie to come out in his first few starts and play mistake-free football is ridiculous. I don’t know how good Hurts will wind up being. I don’t know if he’ll ever be a star or even a full-time starter. Heck, maybe Sunday will be his last career start. Maybe he’ll spend the rest of his career as a backup. I don’t know. Nobody knows. But I do know that anybody who’s watched him play these last few weeks and can't see the positives is delusional and has some impossible expectations. Yuba City Sultans coaching staff knows how to plug players into their respected position and get the best out of them. We've seen it throughout the years, but this year we've seen it in ways we hadn't. At 5-6-0 they were able to reset and push their players to perform in optimal performance. Many coaches can't just reset like that - but this staff can. Hurts has been thrown into a system he didn't know four weeks ago, since being thrown in he’s passed for 847 yards, completed 55 percent of his passes, averaged 7.5 yards per attempt, hit on seven passes of at least 30 yards, and thrown five touchdowns and two interceptions. His passer rating in these three starts is 86.4 and on top of all that he’s rushed for 238 yards with a 6.3 average. He’s fumbled six times, losing one of them. And he’s done it all in an environment where the offensive line has struggled to protect him, he hasn’t had the benefit of an elite wide receiver and he's been able to continue to make plays extend with his feet. Although Hurts isn't the quarterback you'd like to have to go into the Super Bowl, he isn't the worst quarterback you can have either. What’s most important is that Hurts has played with confidence, poise, and swagger. He’s put points on the board. He’s moved the offense and he's kept his defense fresh. Jalen Hurts has shown promise, whether Yuba City Sultans will keep him for the foreseeable future or go in a different direction next year is yet to be seen, but what we do know is Hurts is doing things that many 22-year-old rookie quarterbacks can't even fathom doing. The last loss Yuba City Sultans suffered was in Week 8 to Evolution who barely beat these Sultans, they haven't had a disappointing loss since Week 5 against The Busy Killers who defeated them by over 20-points. During those losses, their team looked completely different from what it looks like now. A defense led by Xavien Howard, the leading interception corner, strong front four-play, and defensive schemes where you never know where the blitz is coming from, Brady is sure to have his hands full on Sunday. Yuba City Sultans is a complete team and has a general manager who knows how to make moves, in the draft, through free agency, and through trades. They are a team that should contend every year. Entering their first Super Bowl against a division rival, one who players in your locker room talked smack to early in the season is something only written in sportsbooks.

The rivalry between these two has been gaining steam since the draft, it is only fitting that these two teams are the last two standing. Yuba City Sultans and The Canadian Cripplers split in the regular season, the Sultans lead the all-time series in the regular season at 6-4-0 but this is the postseason, this is the Super Bowl, anything is possible. Las Vegas has the odds stacked against The Canadian (Tampa) Cripplers, Yuba City Sultans is heavily favored but that won't stop these two from battling it out and clashing in a battle for grit, will, and drive. This game is only going to build this rivalry for the 2021 season and beyond. Henry and Chubb will have to have big games and Hurts will need to hold onto the ball and continue to extend plays with his feet. Brady will need to be able to execute precision passes against a stout defense and allow for his offensive line to protect him and create holes for Gaskin. It's going to be a barnburner ladies and gentlemen. I hope you're ready because Super Bowl XIV is upon us. No matter what happens both teams should hang their heads high. Neither team was expected to make it here, so being here is an accomplishment in itself.

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that-kid-aura-blog · 7 years

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The Cycle of Love

Love is a fire that burns within us all, each person their own intensity and color. Love burns in the soul, giving us the fuel to feel. Love can explode with passion, the heat and powerful vigor engulfing everything around, a warming, caring fire.

Love is the color of your significant other’s eyes, the sentiment you obtain as their irises gaze into yours, the swelling of the heart and the tingling creeping up your spine as your mind melts and all you see is them. Love is a consumption of your being entirely; time no longer exists and minutes could very well be hours or seconds and you wouldn’t be able to tell, as long as you are in the company of their embrace.

Love is to hear their voice, even though texts or thinking of past memories, seeing their beautiful smile as you hear them laughing into the phone after a corny joke. Love is simply sitting next to them and, while they may be focused on something else, to intently gaze upon them and sense a warmth soar up from your toes to your head. Seeing them in unknowing bliss, their ignorance to your loving study breeding an untamable desire to protect them from the world forever and ever: that is love. The need to shield them, to keep that prepossessing smile of theirs on their face for eternity, that is love. To love is to want nothing but that person, to throw your entire being on to theirs, just to shelter them from the cold, scary world around us.

To love is to dedicate yourself to another and the ability it gives of a bad day melting into perfection just by feeling their warm embrace. To love is to spend hours on a gift for someone to only receive a “thank you” and never having felt so fulfilled.

Love is something that cannot be bought or sold; it is earned. Through opening yourself up to someone else, to give that person a piece to your charmingly unique puzzle is love.

Love is the tough stuff that hurts but helps you grow. Love is admitting your faults to someone, or admitting you’re weak. Love is when after confessing those items, you’re taken close, held tightly with support and promised a better tomorrow. Love is always being there for someone, even when the going gets tough.

Love is a midnight phone call when the nighttime terrors kick in. Love is the outstretched hand when you feel an advancing wave of depression, or the shaky uncertainness that comes with anxiety attacks. Love’s the random messages out of the blue of kind words of encouragement, to keep fighting, to “smile, things are looking up.” Love is unending support, even through the most troubling of times.

The value of love is more easily realized as it’s being taken away. To lose someone you love is having your heart ripped from your chest. The world loses all color and to you, life becomes meaningless. Everything you do can’t help but remind you of them and nothing on this Earth can hold back the tears you know are coming. It gives you shick almost, your mind in awe of how someone you meant so much to you really is gone.

The fire in your chest burns hotter but this time, instead of comforting heat, it burns, dragging smokey, thick pain all the way up your throat. You try to scream, but nothing comes out. The desire for those noises to exist fade away into the darkness that has now become your very being. Air no longer exists, words no longer register; the scary, cold and dark world you were trying to shield your love from has now switched its target to you, and now, you’re completely alone, vulnerable to its terror.

Love is only truly realized in its full, awe-inspiring greatness just as you lose it. Only after the person you love is gone do you fully understand how much they meant to you and impacted your life. Now, without them, they consume you. You genuinely grasp how often you thought of them or saw them, and the pain is more overwhelming than any physical suffering ever could be. The stealing of love is an experience compared to that of torture, and is something that shouldn’t even be wished upon the worst who walk the Earth.

To attempt to gain love after a severe loss takes time. The heart, previously shattered, needs time to mend. The brain, recalling the times before, needs to earn back the trust formerly eradicated. The brain is terrified, petrified even of the seemingly equivocal world and the future damage it could bring.

Exposure to a new possibility, the enigma of what accepting could bring: broken and lost, wanting to feel how you once felt again. You yearn for the loving touch of another; the fire in your chest lights anew, a hopeful, young flame.

It’s feasible, falling back into love. But do you want to? Love isn’t meant to be painful, yet that’s all it’s become. Deeper, darker feelings hidden within the crevasses of your body are masked by what appears to be love. It’s not love anymore, but that’s what you body and mind chooses to call it. Your head can’t tell the depression of losing someone to the love you had for them apart and it destroys whatever sensibility you had left. This new “love” has left something to be desired- passion, a way to fill the void that replaced your body. You know if you don’t try again, you’ll be safe from future heartache and abuse. Yet, if you don’t try, would you be missing out on the one thing you missed most? This is love’s most painful aspect, the debating of what could be, or whether it’s worth it to even try.

You fall into love like falling asleep, slowly, and then all at once, sometimes not even by choice. Love is enigmatic, an unfathomable occurrence that really has no clean-cut definition. It’s sitting next to the person you care most, no spoken words necessary, the bond felt like electricity between the two. Love is falling asleep and waking up with them on your mind, being unable not to smile as fond memories float through your recollection.

To love someone is to sign a sort of contract between the two, to promise to care and look out for each other when the going gets tough, to be tasked with making magnificent memories together to enjoy reminiscing in the future. The fire of love can only grow stronger with each passing day, every new memory formed, every breath of life, and every smile brought to your faces.

Love is beautiful and strange; the recipient is never aware of when it could strike next and with whom. Love is a blessing, a gift by some other worldly power when you need it most. It is the reason why we as a people have sympathy, empathy, compassion, consideration, honesty, loyalty, and so many others. The drive to help others is fueled by love for the world, a need to help our fellow man. It is a force to be reckoned with as it can stop wars and bring even the worst to their knees.

Love exists to make living into being alive. It drives humanity- preventing us from believing that life is pointless- that it is fun and quirky and that mistakes happen, but that’s how you grow. The memories, friends, people in your life together, everything that makes you stop and think of the world as beautiful and amazing as one- that is love.

This was an essay I typed for my WRT 100 class last week. The premise was on defining a word that might have a deeper meaning than it seems to. I tried tackling it with my own recent heartbreak and the new chances I’m experiencing at learning to move on. The pain sucks but I promise it doesn’t last forever.

Much love,

Ari <3

“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.”

-Stephanie Bennett-Henry

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