This is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I've always been intrigued by MUT but never really connected with the mode before. I thought a great way to connect would be to give it a story line. Please let me know what you all want to see here. I think it'll be entertaining. I'll be selling everything I have accumulated in MUT (Not much, Ill let you know how many coins I end up with.) To simulate Michal taking over a team that doesn't exist when he's hired as GM and letting you guys know what scrubs I get to fill out the team. Where we go from there is still a little up in the air, we'll play some solo challenges, play a MUT season if you guys want to see that, and just follow the story of Michal Roland as he tries to become the most powerful GM in the MFL. Hope you all enjoy! 
From the personal journal of Michal Roland.
July 25th, 2015
The mercenary Football League is the game of the future, Football at it's highest level. In a way the NFL never could. Dynamic movement of players, teams, coaches, even stadiums week to week. The rock of your franchise now is your main personnel man. Because any player, team name, stadium, uniform, coach, or playbook is now available for a price. The prices are fluid and the deals are done lightning fast. These personnel men are now the center of your franchise. The owners put their faith and trust in these men and women and expect them to deliver a winning team every week, or find a new job.
Personally I never thought we'd see the day. Something personnel guys, fantasy football fanatics, and lounge chair GM's had dreamed about for years. A completely fluid league. No longer are players locked into multi-year contracts, If you can keep a player on your team for more than 10 games these days you consider it a blessing and hope they play well or else it's your job on the line and you'll be looking for a new one real quick.
I love the new league, I love everything about it, it's dynamic and fast paced, and for once it puts as much a spotlight or even more of one on the GM as it does on the coach or the players. Growing up I was slow, a little doughy, and very unathletic. My love for football never got further than a dangerous obsession with madden football, That is until my freshman year in college. The year the MFL was born, The NFL had been in a lockout that had just cost them a whole season, unheard of but the players were dug in as were the owners. People wonder if they would have worked it all out had it not been for Trump. The Donald life long football fanatic put out an open call to other multi billionaires who loved football, Let's call up some players and a coach get a couple teams together and do some exhibitions.
People went wild, Football was back after a whole year, and watching their favorite players bounce between different teams was exhilarating. The MFL was born, and no one has looked back since. I spent four years of college interning with, calling, begging, writing, any and every MFL GM who would bother to speak to me. I knew this new league could be my ticket to a lifetime involvement with the game I loved.
The summer after I graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan Adam Brice called me GM of a team owned by Elon Musk, The Tesla Titans. He needed an assistant, someone to bring him coffee, follow him around, and do whatever he was told. He had found his man. I followed him around for two years until he got canned for a seven game losing streak where Elon claimed he wasn't able to evaluate talent properly. The Titans cleaned house and I got axed. Luckily I had made friends in two years and Robert Kraft one time NFL owner and new owner of the Kraft Krusaders needed a numbers guy to keep track of the books and make sure everyone got paid. It wasn't much but it was a step up so I moved out to Boston where the team was based and spent 18 months under the supervision of Pedro Gonzalez a one time power agent who had moved into the front office during the birth of the MFL. He taught me everything there was to know about team chemistry and understanding how all the players had to mesh well especially in a league where players were with a team on average for only 6 games.
Pedro recommended me for my first real power position last year. Assistant GM of Mark Cuban's Dallas Sharks, They weren't a very good team, mostly because Mark had been the acting GM for the past two years. While a solid football mind he had too many other things on his mind to be worrying about the day to day operations of a football team. We could have made something great there in Dallas if he had given me a little more leeway, but every move I suggested had to go through him and his board and it was just to clunky to get in and out of the player market in a league like this. Things move to fast for a team to run as anything other than a dictatorship.
Regardless Herbert Simon, the Simon mall guy, who just bought a stake in the league after the last season closed has offered me the job of GM of his new team. Only problem? The team has nothing. No players, no coach, no playbooks, no stadium, nothing. He wants me to start from scratch. And he wants me to win 6 of our first 16 games. Or else I get the boot.
Sounds like a challenge if I ever heard one. Never one to shirk a challenge, I happily accepted my first position as GM of a football team. Now I just had to give it a name, and a logo, and a coach... players.... stadium.... I have a lot of work to do!
From the personal journal of Michal Roland.
July 25th, 2015
The mercenary Football League is the game of the future, Football at it's highest level. In a way the NFL never could. Dynamic movement of players, teams, coaches, even stadiums week to week. The rock of your franchise now is your main personnel man. Because any player, team name, stadium, uniform, coach, or playbook is now available for a price. The prices are fluid and the deals are done lightning fast. These personnel men are now the center of your franchise. The owners put their faith and trust in these men and women and expect them to deliver a winning team every week, or find a new job.
Personally I never thought we'd see the day. Something personnel guys, fantasy football fanatics, and lounge chair GM's had dreamed about for years. A completely fluid league. No longer are players locked into multi-year contracts, If you can keep a player on your team for more than 10 games these days you consider it a blessing and hope they play well or else it's your job on the line and you'll be looking for a new one real quick.
I love the new league, I love everything about it, it's dynamic and fast paced, and for once it puts as much a spotlight or even more of one on the GM as it does on the coach or the players. Growing up I was slow, a little doughy, and very unathletic. My love for football never got further than a dangerous obsession with madden football, That is until my freshman year in college. The year the MFL was born, The NFL had been in a lockout that had just cost them a whole season, unheard of but the players were dug in as were the owners. People wonder if they would have worked it all out had it not been for Trump. The Donald life long football fanatic put out an open call to other multi billionaires who loved football, Let's call up some players and a coach get a couple teams together and do some exhibitions.
People went wild, Football was back after a whole year, and watching their favorite players bounce between different teams was exhilarating. The MFL was born, and no one has looked back since. I spent four years of college interning with, calling, begging, writing, any and every MFL GM who would bother to speak to me. I knew this new league could be my ticket to a lifetime involvement with the game I loved.
The summer after I graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan Adam Brice called me GM of a team owned by Elon Musk, The Tesla Titans. He needed an assistant, someone to bring him coffee, follow him around, and do whatever he was told. He had found his man. I followed him around for two years until he got canned for a seven game losing streak where Elon claimed he wasn't able to evaluate talent properly. The Titans cleaned house and I got axed. Luckily I had made friends in two years and Robert Kraft one time NFL owner and new owner of the Kraft Krusaders needed a numbers guy to keep track of the books and make sure everyone got paid. It wasn't much but it was a step up so I moved out to Boston where the team was based and spent 18 months under the supervision of Pedro Gonzalez a one time power agent who had moved into the front office during the birth of the MFL. He taught me everything there was to know about team chemistry and understanding how all the players had to mesh well especially in a league where players were with a team on average for only 6 games.
Pedro recommended me for my first real power position last year. Assistant GM of Mark Cuban's Dallas Sharks, They weren't a very good team, mostly because Mark had been the acting GM for the past two years. While a solid football mind he had too many other things on his mind to be worrying about the day to day operations of a football team. We could have made something great there in Dallas if he had given me a little more leeway, but every move I suggested had to go through him and his board and it was just to clunky to get in and out of the player market in a league like this. Things move to fast for a team to run as anything other than a dictatorship.
Regardless Herbert Simon, the Simon mall guy, who just bought a stake in the league after the last season closed has offered me the job of GM of his new team. Only problem? The team has nothing. No players, no coach, no playbooks, no stadium, nothing. He wants me to start from scratch. And he wants me to win 6 of our first 16 games. Or else I get the boot.
Sounds like a challenge if I ever heard one. Never one to shirk a challenge, I happily accepted my first position as GM of a football team. Now I just had to give it a name, and a logo, and a coach... players.... stadium.... I have a lot of work to do!
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