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Seventy eight year old Buddy Landry has been known as the Father of Sarzonian Football for his role in the founding of both the Incorporated Football Federation and the Sarzonian Football Confederation, serving as both the chairman of Sarzonia's governing body for football and the commissioner of the first top flight professional league of any kind in Sarzonia's history.
Now he has chosen to undertake perhaps his greatest challenge: To increase the exposure of the sport of gridball, which is Sarzonia's name for American football. Well, technically, it's the nickname of the sport, as its official Sarzonian name is "Gridiron Football, Formerly Known as American Football."
But no one, including the people who named the sport thusly calls it by that cumbersome title. Media outlets always use gridball. Even the sport's governing body relegates the official name to barely a footnote in its history. Lawmakers have never legally changed the name to gridball for fear that they would be lampooned in the media for debating a sporting matter when "they have better things to do."
It is in this backdrop that sees the founding of the Incorporated Gridball League, the latest effort toward a top flight professional gridball league in Sarzonia. Previous leagues failed due to lack of attendance and the expense involved in equipment, training facilities, salary payments, et. al. This time, Landry swears he has the right formula to succeed.
"Old broadcasts of NFL games are still very popular in Sarzonia," Landry said. "College gridball is the second biggest sport in Sarzonia behind football. We have a conservative business model that we believe will work to give it a modest beginning to see some stability."
Landry is also gambling on one other effort to get the league off the ground: The establishment of a gridball tournament to be held in Sarzonia pitting the best teams from leagues throughout Atlantian Oceania in a new tournament called the AO Bowl. The SFC and IFF reached a deal with Landry to allow its stadia to be used for the tournament, so Bryan Marshall Stadium in Woodstock, the Iron Bowl in Portland, and the Round Table in Nicksia are all available as venues for preliminary round games.
"We would like to see this become a successful tournament in addition to the AOCAF," Landry said. "We think we have the interest to make this work."
OOC: If you're interested in signing up, please indicate by posting to this thread. |
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It's all about the Navy. |
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I would be interested in signing up. Just list the positions you want (I'm not sure if this is different from regular football so that's why I'm asking) and I'll post my roster.  |
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Milchama can't wait to have their old NS Bowl team go at it and lose one more time. |
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Sign me up! |
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Pacitalia |
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The best place on earth. |
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Hey that was a better response that I thought there would be.  |
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With three countries having already signed up, namely Pacitalia, Milchama, and Space Union, Landry cracked a wide smile.
"Looks like we have a Cup ready to go," he said. Of course, he knew that there was a possibility that more teams wanted to play in the tournament. There was the logistical issue of having to figure out a format, which itself would depend on the number of teams that actually took part.
Landry walked over to his desk with the proposal outline he had designed and was prepared to implement that had contingency plans for small groups of teams to large contingents of teams. He sat down and sent a copy of the proposal to the gridball association chairmen.
| CODE | Proposal:
Should the AO Bowl take place with four to seven teams, the qualifying stage will consist of one games for each team against each other team in the tournament. After the qualifying stage, the top four teams will advance to the semifinals, where the top seeded team will play against the fourth seed and the second seed will face the third seed. The winners of each semifinal game will play in the AO Bowl championship game.
Rosters will be limited to 40 players per team with no more than 11 coaches on a coaching staff. Many rules will be similar to those of gridball leagues in the United States; in particular, the National Football League. [OOC: 11 players per side on the field at any time.] Considering the compressed time we have to play these games, there will be four 12 minute quarters. Each team will have a total of five time outs per game, with teams able to use up to three time outs in a half. However, if a team uses three times out in the first half, they are only entitled two times out in the second half.
In the event of a tie at the end of regulation, qualifying games will end in a tie. In the event of a tie game in the semifinals or the finals, another simulation will take place until the tie is broken.
Group stage games will take place at Bryan Marshall Stadium in Woodstock; the Iron Bowl in Portland, Somerset; and the Round Table in Nicksia, Benatar. |
We look forward to a spirited competition from the gridball teams that participate!
Buddy Landry
[OOC: If you have any other questions, please feel free to PM me!]
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Lamoni will participate. |
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Lamoni |
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Democratic Maniac |
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Holy -explicitive removed-, a sport I actually know  Though I do a good BS job in the worldwide version of futbol.  (I have watched more of it this year than the NFL- shocker)
ASMV will definately participate. |
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Bettia's gridball team (predictably nicknamed the Aroras) are more than ahppy to flex their muscles on the AO sports scene... and they might end up playing some gridball too! |
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Bettia |
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We don't do defence |
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Nedalia is ready to PLAY SOME FOOTBALL!!!! |
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Nedalia |
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Emperor in Training |
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The Oliverrian Football Association's president, Olivier Chaussé, is against Sarzonia's initiative to start this cup. He told us that only him has the right to start a Football tournament and that Oliverry will not participate to this cup.
A hour later, the General manager of the team, Arthur Fournier, told us that the team will participate to the cup. If they can't under Oliverry's name, they will under another nation's name.
Mr. Chaussé accepted to let Oliverry participate in the AO Bowl, simply because Football is having problems in the nation right now. "We need to get it back to the popularity it had before the spectacular World Cup 25 the Oliverrian Soccer Team had." he said.
OOC: That means we sign-up |
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Count on Nojika participating. |
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Nojika |
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Senator in Training |
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