MSR Player Tribune

"MSR can be as big as...." That was my belief at the time and that is my belief today. Madden Sim Revolution aka MSR was my very first home in the Madden Sim Community. Call me naïve, tell me that I don't know what I am talking about (which my boys did), tell me what you want. That was my belief and it was a belief that never faded.

I have heard a few folks wonder who the hell I am, and some just flat out say they have never heard of me. And to be fair why in the hell should you. I am nobody special, I am not LeBron James, I am just me. Redemption or Demetrius as the government likes to refer to me as. But since so many of you don’t know who I am let me give a brief introduction. I am Coach Redemption, yes I do like honey buns, yes I like to talk way too much, which can lead to conflict in certain situations, and yes I really don’t give a damn about opinions I find to be stupid.

But do you know who else I am? I am a man who spent three years of his life helping to build the foundation that attracted so many of you to this place we call MSR. Three years of thinking I was dedicating myself to something that in reality probably should not have mattered as much as it did. But here is the thing, it did matter, MSR mattered to me maybe more than it should have. And it wasn’t just the content, but it was the brother hood. I spent hours like so many of you in DM’s counseling and doing my best to help those that were a part of this community.  I made sacrifices in the name of advancing a community that I really had no ownership over. All because I believed this place could be the greatest Madden Sim Community ever. 

So when I hear guys say “This is a privilege” “Being here should be an honor” “If you want the spot you have to come get it” all I can do is smile and agree. Why? Because those are the exact words that I uttered every day for three years. Until I wasn’t, because I left, the place I called home. And not a day goes by where there isn’t a small tiny piece of regret.  So you 31 honored individuals who say that “y’all do not know what it means to be a part of this”. I just want to tell you that you are wrong, because I do, because I have lived it, because I fought for it.

And that is why I came back, because no matter if you leave it, no matter how you left it, some places are still just home. And there isn’t a damn soul in this community that can take that from me (meet me at Temecula if you want to try). I came back because missed home, I came back because there is no better place than home.

Home has changed though some, home seems to be full of more vocal about that action type of individuals. Home seems to be everything I thought it could become one day, and that is because of you guys. You all have made home what it currently is, and that is a home I want to be a part of again. So yes I came back, but I didn’t come back just to be home. I came back for myself, and nobody else, because I know this is where I belong, and have always belonged.

I say that to say this. I am coming, I am coming and I am coming with some redemption. I am coming to show you why I will always call this place home, why this is a place I should never have left. I am putting foots to necks on the field, and energy and concentration to content off the field. But you best believe I am coming, so be ready, be prepared as I am out to prove to myself that when my mind is set to it, and my heart is in it, nobody and I mean NODBODY represents the brand like I do.

We all have a home, a place we all started. But let me assure you of one thing, when I pull out my Sim Community birth certificate, it says place of birth Madden Sim Revolution. What does yours say?

I am coming!!!!!!!!