Sunday, August 31, 2008

Two games in and we finally got ourselves a win. It was a marvellous piece of work by Jan Markic (our quarterback) who passed for 3 touchdowns and ran to the 1 yard line for the fourth one. This brings his total passing yards to 315 in 38 attempts, which is quite good. Our defence as is usual by now held their own and the opponent failed to score even a point.

Final score was 0-28.

Our next game is a friendly against Bills Forever, a Brazilian team. The kickoff is at 21:00.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

One day to league start

With one day to go all the "bot" teams have been replaced and we finally have an active league. As the nationalities go, there's 7 Serbian teams, 2 Bosnian and 1 Slovenian (us). Most teams didn't yet go searching for new players and we have quite some depth in that department, that we hope will give us an edge.

Our first match is against Vojvode at home. Vojvode have a solid team - one of the few that went "shopping". Thus far they played 1 friendly match against LoRdS and won 35-7. Both their rushing and passing plays worked great in that game. We set up our defensive tactics in a way that will allow us to stop them (hopefully). Our attacking play is centred around the senior players and hopefully their experience will prove to be the deciding factor in tomorrows match.

Our manager, big chief Banana, the voice of the great Banana was not available for an interview today. Sources put him in the local hospital visiting a nurse of all things...

Monday, August 18, 2008

Tonights game

Today we had our first match, a friendly game against RBC united. It was a tough game but we managed to come out victorious (14 RBC United - 21 Banana Warriors).
Big chief Banana, the ever present reminder of the great power of The Banana, was pleased with the performance. One of the third world people caught him while talking to himself; "Marvelous, marvelous, I will be the talk of the lands tonight. Hey, what are you doing here? Give that tape recorder to me. Hey! Don't you dare run away! Don't you..."

The next game will be on sunday, our first league match.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

New signings

Yesterday we managed to strike deals with M. Ciappara (DL), M. Bachschmied (WR), E. Schettino (DL), A. England (OL), Z. Zeljkovic (WR), E. Ertem (OL) and J. Ricard (TE) for their services. We are especially proud that Maurizio Bachschmied decided to come to our team as he is (now) the most perspective young player in our team.

For now this is the last big package of players we are going to buy. From now on we're going to put most of our energy into upgrading our stadium. The goal is to have a stadium of 10.000 within a few seasons.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Current team status

At the moment we are in the process of establishing a good player base. This involves finding hardworking players whith which we can progress faster than our opponents. Today we are hoping to bring in M. Bachschmied (WR), Z. Zeljkovic (WR), I. Gorjup (LB), E. Schettino (DL), M. Ciappara (DL), J. Ricard (TE), A. England (OL), S. Zemljak (WR) and E. Ertem (OL)

Our current roster
Defensive team
  • Defensive Linemen - W. Himberger, A. Barents, T. Tobas, R. Bura, N. Nisioiu, A. Ercin, L. Delac, U. Bucar, J. Martinkovic (currently in the process of being sold) and V. Leskovar
  • Line Backers - C. Demirtas, J. Mrak, A. Kocjan and M, Gomboc
  • Corner Backs - Z. Conyers, E. Howard and H. Acikgoz
  • Safeties - R. Bentele, R. Ghimpau, C. Kusmenoglu, K. Pegan and Z. Sega
Offensive team
  • Quarterbacks - K. Jakab and J. Markic
  • Running Backs - Z. Zeleznik, S. Kotnik and R. Ivanec (our new youth player)
  • Wide Receivers - L. Castro, D. Faragao, T. Moutsitsis, C. Broomfield and M. Hocevar
  • Offensive Linemen - E. McAnew, P. Niculae, A. Pongracic, D. Pintea, J. Jarsic, B. Hribar, G. Kolaric (currently in the process of being sold), A. Lavric and G. Podgorsek
  • Tight Ends - None at the moment
Special Team
  • Kickers/Punters - T. Krznar

Facilities
Our stadium the Fruit Bowl has 500 seats. We are building the Western stand to accomodate 100 VIP boxes, which should greately increase our earnings when we play at home.


Currently we have no other facilities.








Curent Sponsors
We already struck a deal with OrangeSkin for $ 76,545 per week. OrangeSkin also agreed to give us a fair amount of money if we win a league match and from the matchday sponsors.

Of beginings

Big Chief Banana, the voice of the great Banana, the interpretor of her holy words, decided on 11th of August 2008 to form an American Football team. The team was created in the III. level 8 division of the Balkan region.
This is far lower than what the big chief wanted so he held a rousing speech to his players:
"We Must be the best and earn our place among the gods of football. I, nor the Great Banana, will stand for such a low league. We are better than the others. And we are going to win! You all just remember that."
With those words he orderd his sedan chair carriers to turn around and head to the palace.

This was the start, what is to come no one knows.