Two days after Centurions vs Zombies game.

Centurions Head Office

Angela Wagner is going about her day, doing the things she needed to do as owner of the Centurions and her other business ventures. It is Saturday, both Division Four and Three have played on their respective days. Like many of the others in the office, the celebration over their victory over the New Orleans Zombies had extended past the night it happens, going well into Friday. Angela not only got vindication that her team wasn't a wasted spot, like some people thought, but also her team managed to one up that slimy pig of an owner of the zombies, Bubba LeBlanc. But now it was time to get back to work.

Angela took the time to look over the other scores to see how the other teams did within Division Four. She saw the Dallas Lawmen completely dominated the Hawaiian Barracudas, 42 to 3. Before the season, the Lawmen were the favorites to be the first team to win the D4 championship and being the first team to move up into Division Three. The League favored this, being the team, they highlighted the most. However, it wasn't blatant favoritism and stacking like Clive Hanson did all those years ago with the LA Riots. Angela knew that Dallas is a "Big City Market" and had money to attract better talent and they had a built-in fan based of the old Aztec team that played there.

She saw that the Utah Raptors also win quite handily, beating the Oklahoma Twisters 35 to 10. They were the main competition for the Lawmen and what some analysts thought, the other team in the championship. The last match up is the San Diego Orcas and the Knoxville Rattlers, which seemed to go back and forth until a last-minute field goal sealed a Orcas victory of 17 to 14. It was this team that interested Angela the most, since they were playing them next week at their home opener. It seemed like San Diego would be a good match.

While Angela was happy with their victory over the Zombies, she had hoped for a bigger win to show the League that her team meant business. But the Zombies put up more of a fight than she and the coaching staff had thought, however that is the nature of the game, sometimes unexpected things happen.

She took a look at other news around the League. The one she noticed is the confirmation that the Cleveland Steamers, the unlucky team from the northern part of Ohio has decided to move to a new city. This didn't surprise Angela all that much, it was one of the reason Columbus was given a franchise. The writing was on the wall and in her only meeting with Commissioner Eckhart, he told her that Cleveland was likely to move and that the League wanted to keep two teams in Ohio.

From what Angela is seeing, three more cities are making pitches other than Santa Fe. Those cities are Anaheim, California, Trenton, New Jersey, and San Antonio, Texas. Angela kind of hopes that the decision will be put off for a while, she wanted the Steamers to go down to Division Four so the Centurions could humiliate them. It was a possibility; Commissioner Eckhart had changed the rules so a team can't just up and run like the Steamers did when they were the San Diego Cyclones.

She decided to check on other things, a few emails of congratulations from stockholders, a message from Kalvin Skinner about how he is keeping an eye out for the best talent in the collage football world. It was still too early to see who the Centurions would pick but there has been serious talk about getting a quarterback to supplement Nick Wexler and possible solidify a future in case Nick retired early or was injured.

Soon her desk phone rang, which was used only for business within the Centurions organization, Angela picked it up quickly and put it to her ear.

"Wagner here."

"It's me," GM Todd Adamson answered, "I've gotten a very intriguing offer from the Philadelphia Brawlers."

"What is it?"

"It seems Dominic Ranger is unhappy with the Brawlers and is looking to get out…" Todd started.

The name grabbed Angela's attention. He was once considered to be one of the better running backs in the League before a string of injuries lowered his stock. He is, or was, considered a franchise player for the Brawlers but seeing as they were considered the one of the weaker teams in Division Three, they never got anywhere. Angela continued to listen.

"...Thing is, they couldn't get anyone to bite in either the upper Divisions or the D3. And from what his agent has told me, nobody else in our Division wants him either. I talked with Coach Marcus, and he agrees that adding him would help out our ground game considerably," Todd finished.

"Alright, what do we have to give them in return?" Angela questioned.

"A third-round draft pick and one of our linebackers, they knew we wouldn't give up Torro."

Angela sighed in relief on that, had the Brawlers asked for Torro, it would have been a no-go from the start. With that, she came to a decision quickly.

"Alright, they have a deal," Angela said with a smile, "Get PR on the phone and call a press conference."

A Days Later

Blitz League News

"Hello Blitz fans, this is Chris Newman with news from around the league! Breaking news, the Philadelphia Brawlers have traded running back Dominic Ranger to the Columbus Centurions for a third-round pick and Linebacker Curtis Cage," Newman said while footage played of the press conference held by the Centurions, with Angela, Coach Marcus and Adamson sitting at table surrounded by the press. Angela will stand up and hand a Centurions jersey with the number #28 on it, who Dominic, an African American man with an athletic build, would take and display it to the crowd.

"With us right now is Blitz League analyst Grant Tanner with his thoughts on this situation, Grant."

"This is a good move on the Centurions part, their running game against the Zombies wasn't as stellar as their sky game. With Ranger, they improve their chances against the Orcas this coming week. It will give QB Nick Wexler a little rest as well," Grant explained.

"We'll see how the Centurions fair against the Orcas in their home opener on Thursday! This is Chris Newman for Blitz League News wishing you a good day!"

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Sorry for the delay for this story, been busy with other projects and life in general. Also, I had accidentally deleted the chapter mid-way through trying to transfer files over to a new external hard drive.

This chapter is meant to show how the other teams did in the League, as you can see, the Lawmen and the Raptors will be big problems for the Centurions this season.

As you can see, the whole Cleveland Steamers leaving is now official. A bit of self-deprecation on my part seeing is how I live in roughly Northeastern Ohio, which is traditionally Cleveland Browns territory. Now there is four cities looking to get the Steamers to move to their respective city. Right now, the names for those teams are the Santa Fe Scorpions, Anaheim Avengers, Trenton Templars and the San Antonio Stallions.

I wanted to clarify how games are played in my story, Division Four plays on Thursdays, Division Three on Fridays, Division 2 on Saturdays (along with Collage football.) and Division One on Sundays. I'll also get into how the draft works at a later date.

As you can see, the Centurions decided to get a good player to bolster their offense with a running back. We'll see how that works out for them in their game against the Orcas.

And lastly, I decided to bring back Grant Tanner from the games as an analyst for the League, since a lot of players in the NFL do that after they retire, I see Grant doing this after retiring.

Next up is the practice leading up to the match up against the San Diego Orcas!