New Orleans Second Line
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First season: 2017 Play in and headquartered in The Meme Coliseum New Orleans, Louisiana | |||
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| Team colors | Purple, Teal, Gold[1] | ||
| Mascot | Max | ||
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| General manager | Beaux Veaux (bovovovo) | ||
| Head coach | Bovosexual Kiwi | ||
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The New Orleans Second Line professional American football franchise based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Hawks currently compete in the National Simulation Football League (NSFL) as a member club of the league's American Simulation Football Conference (ASFC) which currently only has one division. The franchise was established in 2017 (S2) in the league's first expansion as the Las Vegas Legion before relocating for 2021 (S6).
New Orleans has not been very competitive during its franchise's tenure, still seeking its first winning season. The franchise peaked in 2017 (S2) and 2019 (S4) with records of 3-11. After a mass retirement scandal led to the team's relocation and a change in management, New Orleans has acquired some exciting young talent and looks to begin a new chapter in their history while expanding their reputation as the league's meme team.
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History of the New Orleans Second Line
After being awarded an expansion team after the league's inaugural season, Las Vegas GM RFFO saw an opportunity to be a playoff competitor immediately. He dealt most of the team's draft picks and pursued free agents aggressively, highlighted by signing quarterback Josh Bercovici to a 5-year, $33 million contract. This bold strategy backfired quickly and the franchise has been bad ever since. A few weeks before the 2019 NSFL Draft the GM notified the head office that he would be stepping down effective immediately, tapping his co-GM Ben to replace him, which the league agreed to. Ben hired Keygan as his co-GM just in time for the 2019 Offseason to begin.
The new duo dedicated the team to building through the draft but unfortunately the timing could not have been any worse. With the establishment of the Developmental Simulation Football League for new prospects, the 2019 draft was the smallest and worst in league history. The Legion went into the draft with 5 of the 8 first round picks, the first 5 picks in the franchise's history and just the second time the franchise would pick in the top 40. In particular, Ben and Keygan targeted well-known and reliable-earning players from the SHL to create a cohesive, active locker room and discord. The actually worked out pretty well. Even though the NSFL was, at best, second priority for most of the team the discord was very active and Keygan spent the entire season pointing out how Las Vegas had more users online in the main NSFL discord than any other team.[2] After that season, though, a culmination of events led to many of those SHL users getting fed up with the league which eventually led to Keygan posting a retirement thread for 7 players on the team, including himself.[3] Only 6 of those players actually retired - Wallace Stone did not intend on retiring[4] - but 2 other players posted separate topics. This mass retirement sent shockwaves through the league and the head office scrambled to deal with the fallout since Ben, the head GM, was on vacation in Europe at the time and while aware of the developments in general he was in no position to take action.
However, as the head office found during their deliberations, this wasn't as bad as it appeared initially. Only one of the retiring players had updated regularly that season and by waiting to post the topic after the offseason began, this gave Las Vegas a bunch of expiring contract that they could trade for assets to build the team. A few days after the topic the head office announced the cosbornballboy would take over as GM of the team. In one of his first acts as GM he traded for a quarterback without consulting the team's current quarterback, Wallace Stone, about a position change which caused a falling-out between the two. After a couple days of similar mis-steps that grew from that initial mistake, Cosborn stepped down as GM and was replaced by Bovo.
Bovo oversaw the selling-off of the assets that hadn't yet been traded and soon hired tbone as his co-GM. The team headed into the 2020 NSFL Draft with a decent amount of mid-round picks to start the rebuild anew. To complete the fresh start they desired for the team they also began exploring relocation options and the following offseason the team, after much consulting with the team, announced it would become the New Orleans Second Line starting in 2021 (S6). Like Ben and Keygan, Bovo and tbone put an emphasis on building through the draft and strove to have the best scouting in the league by targeting DSFL GMs. As a testament to this strategy the franchise has seen its players win 3 consecutive rookies of the year.
Rivalries
As a franchise that has spent its entire existence dwelling at the bottom of the standings, strong rivalries haven't had the opportunity to develop. However, any time a Second Line player begins acting up in the discord they're threatened with being traded to the other perennial cellar-dweller, the Colorado Yeti.
Team Colors and Uniforms
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Season-by-season records
| Season | Wins | Losses | Ties | Win% | PF | PA | Standings | Playoffs |
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| 2017 (S2) | 3 | 11 | 0 | .214 | 211 | 335 | 4th | N/A |
| 2018 (S3) | 2 | 12 | 0 | .143 | 199 | 444 | 4th | N/A |
| 2019 (S4) | 3 | 11 | 0 | .214 | 234 | 439 | 4th | N/A |
| 2020 (S5) | 1 | 13 | 0 | .071 | 296 | 453 | 4th | N/A |
| 2021 (S6) | 2 | 11 | 1 | .179 | 239 | 377 | 4th | N/A |
| 2022 (S7) | 3 | 7 | 0 | .300 | 232 | 280 | 3rd | N/A |
Franchise Records
Career Records
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Regular Season Records
Passing yards: 3,792 Logan Noble, 2020 (S5)
Passing touchdowns: 20 Logan Noble, 2020 (S5)
Passer rating: 78.1 Logan Noble, 2020 (S5)
Completion percentage: 62.7 Logan Noble, 2020 (S5)
Rushing attempts: 409 Ardie Savea, 2019 (S4)
Rushing yards: 1,276 Ardie Savea, 2021 (S6)
Rushing touchdowns: 7 Ardie Savea, 2022 (S7)
Receptions: 85 Fresh Booter, 2020 (S5)
Receiving yards: 1,504 Dustin Evans, 2020 (S5)
Receiving touchdowns: 8 Stormblessed, 2017 (S2)
Pancakes: 63 Jelly Roll, 2019 (S4)
Interceptions: 6 Shoane Maddox, 2017 (S2)
Interception Yards: 134 Terrell Brister, 2020 (S5)
Tackles: 130 Wallace Fulton, 2019 (S4)
Sacks: 17 M. Ramrio, 2017 (S2)
Tackles for loss: 16 B. Crocker, 2017 (S2)
Punt return yards: 363 Stormblessed, 2017 (S2)
Punt return touchdowns: 1 Dustin Evans, 2021 (S6)
Kick return yards: 1,264 Dustin Evans, 2020 (S5)
Kick return touchdowns: 1 Stormblessed, 2017 (S2)
Field goals made: 29 Bojo Kicksit, 2020 (S5)
Field goal percentage: 95.7 Wayne Gooney, 2019 (S4)
Punt average: 46.8 Peg Leg, 2021 (S6)
Single Game Records
Passing yards: 377 Borkus Maximus III (Week 5 2022 (S7) vs San Jose Sabercats)
Passing touchdowns: 3 Josh Bercovici (Week 11 2017 (S2) vs Orange County Otters)
Passer rating: 140 Josh Bercovici (Week 10 2018 (S3) vs San Jose Sabercats)
Completions: 38 Logan Noble (Week 13 2020 (S5) vs Yellowknife Wraiths)
Rushing yards: 144 Ardie Savea (Week 9 2021 (S6) vs Baltimore Hawks)
Rushing touchdowns: 3 Ardie Savea (Week 10 2018 (S3) vs San Jose Sabercats)
Longest rush: 18 Ardie Savea (Week 7 2018 (S3) vs Philadelphia Liberty)
Receptions: 12 Poopyface Tomatonose (Week 12 2021 (S6) vs San Jose Sabercats)
Receiving yards: 165 Alexandre LeClair (Week 2 2018 (S3) vs Baltimore Hawks)
Receiving touchdowns: 3 Alexandre LeClair (Week 9 2018 (S3) vs Orange County Otters)
Longest catch: 65 Jon Ross (Week 1 2019 (S4) vs Philadelphia Liberty)
Most Pancakes: 12 L. Armstrong (Week 4 2019 (S4) vs Colorado Yeti)
Interceptions: 2 D. Speed (Week 12 2017 (S2) vs Colorado Yeti)
Interception Yards: 91 Blackford Oakes (Week 3 2022 (S7) vs Yellowknife Wraiths)
Tackles: 15 Leon Washington (Week 12 2020 (S5) vs Colorado Yeti)
Sacks: 3 B. Blade (Week 1 2018 (S3) vs Colorado Yeti)
Tackles for loss: 4 Big Bot (Week 4 2019 (S4) vs Colorado Yeti)
Punt return yards: 143 Dustin Evans (Week 5 2022 (S7) vs San Jose Sabercats)
Longest punt return: 73 Dustin Evans (Week 10 2021 (S6) vs Colorado Yeti)
Kick return yards: 200 Dustin Evans (Week 4 2020 (S5) vs Arizona Outlaws)
Longest kick return: 99 Dustin Evans (Week 4 2020 (S5) vs Arizona Outlaws)
Field goals made: 5 Peg Leg (Week 10 2022 (S7) vs Baltimore Hawks)
Longest field goal: 57 Wayne Gooney (Week 9 2019 (S4) vs Arizona Outlaws)
Punt average: 54.5 Bojo Kicksit (Week 6 2020 (S5) vs Yellowknife Wraiths)
Longest punt: 71 Bojo Kicksit (Week 6 2020 (S5) vs Yellowknife Wraiths)
Career Playoff Records
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Single Game Playoff Records
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Team Records
Wins (season): 3 - 2017 (S2), 2019 (S4), and 2022 (S7)
Margin of victory (game): 35 - 2022 (S7) Week 8 vs Colorado Yeti
Points scored (game): 38 - 2022 (S7) Week 8 vs Colorado Yeti
Points allowed (game): 3 - 2022 (S7) Week 8 vs Colorado Yeti
Yards gained (season): 4,887 - 2021 (S6)
Yards allowed (season): 4,760 - 2017 (S2)
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Players and Personnel
Current roster
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New Orleans Second Line roster
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Current management
Draft History
Honored Members
Retired Numbers
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Hall of Famers
None yet
Team Captains
do we have these?
Management
General Managers
S2-3: RFFO
S4-5: Ben
S5: cosbornballboy
S5-present: Bovo
Assistants
S2-3: Anti-Hype
S3: Ben
S4: Keygan
S5: tbone415
S6: Ben(?)
S7: AsylumParty
Awards Won
| NSFL Award Winners | ||
| Season | Player | Award |
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| 2019 (S4) | Blackford Oakes (FS) | Defensive Rookie of the Year |
| 2020 (S5) | Terrell Brister (CB) | Defensive Rookie of the Year |
| 2021 (S6) | Poopyface Tomatonose (TE) | Offensive Rookie of the Year |
References
- ↑ "New Orleans Second Line Team Info". Official New Orleans Second Line Info Page. National Simulation Football League. February 10, 2018. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
- ↑ "Discord". Discord. National Simulation Football League. November 3, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
- ↑ "Legion retires many!". Legion retires many!. National Simulation Football League. December 8, 2017.
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