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Your 2023 OIL and Blue Sky Conference Champions are the Warriors, while the Norman Nobodies won the Evergreen Conference and the Redlegs won the Red Dirt Conference. Check out the season at our new home on MyFantasyLeague.com: The OIL 2023.
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The Boomtown Brawlers won their second championship in three years in 2017, and today the OIL received the Brawlers championship jersey. It was produced, as always, by HopcoSports.com.
The commissioner has placed the orders for the championship mini-helmet and championship jerseys. Because the 'Mericans already have a helmet, their manager gave the prize to the Liberty Bowl runner-up Boomtown Brawlers. The Redlegs finished third in the Liberty Bowl. Below are the mockups for the helmet and the three conference champions' jerseys. View previous years' helmets and jerseys here. The helmets are made by HelmetNation.com and the jerseys by HopcoSports.com.  Boomtown Brawlers helmet  AFC Champion Redlegs (second jersey)  NFC Champion Arrogant Americans (third jersey)  PFC Champion Boomtown Brawlers (second jersey) By OIL Commissioner Justin C. Cliburn    Congratulations to Christopher Trovillo, whose Dirty Hippies won the 2016 Liberty Bowl. He will hold the Tenequer Memorial Trophy in trust until a new champion is crowned. He also earned a custom mini-helmet with the win, and the Commissioner awaits his instructions regarding said helmet. As far as Lance Zerger goes, his Redlegs fell short in their quest to win their first week 17 championship. But the season was a monstrous success regardless. The Redlegs set a record for most points in single season, won 12 games, and won the AFC's Thunder Bowl. He will have his name engraved on the Killman Memorial Trophy and his custom jersey has been ordered.  Well, that's it for the 2016 OIL season. Congratulations to the three conference champions: Buehre, Trovillo, and Zerger. The 2017 draft order will be posted soon, and I'll get started on the 2016 edition of the Book of OIL. Be prepared for lots of emails soliciting your feedback on the 2016 draft party, trades, rivalry week, season, and playoffs. Zerger has plans to coordinate an OIL March Madness pool, and we'll be finding ways to raise money for the 2017 draft weekend, which will again occur at the Roberts Retreat Lodge north of Ada. Our deposit has been paid, and we need to pay $3,100 by August to keep the rental (and not lose the $780 deposit). Anyone who was at the 2016 draft can vouch for how amazing the venue is: 5,000 square-foot cabin; private lake; ATV trails; shooting range; ping pong table; big screen TVs; huge wrap-around porch; and the company of your SECFOR brothers. If you'd like to make your donation now, the link is here. You can view photos, videos, and audio clips of the 2016 draft weekend here. If you encounter a password prompt, the password is oklahoma*** with the *** being the number of our military unit. Happy New Year, brothers. Something tells me we'll keep in touch all offseason using the GroupMe chat (thanks to Zerger for suggesting that). For all of those who didn't win a championship in 2016 (including me), the new year provides new hope. In the meantime, check out the championship banners hung at the top of each champion's manager page:  The 2015 championship jerseys have arrived, and they look fantastic. As always, Earl at Hopco Sports did a great job. Congratulations to three-time champion Jack Bruesch, two-time champion Jimmy Venable, and first-year champion Zack Brake. You can check out all 13 championship jerseys here. This is the ninth installment in our ongoing oral history project. You can read previous chapters here. 2014 was a big year. Alpha and Bravo Battery deployed again, this time to Afghanistan. The OIL joined the Yardbarker Network. Two longtime rivals chronicled their rivalry in an oral history. The league, fresh off losing a SECFOR brother, added 14 new teams as the league moved to a conference model. Cliburn spearheaded an oral history project to document the year in Iraq the men shared, and the men lost another brother-in-arms. The OIL Heads to AfghanistanROGERS: This was my fifth season in the OIL, but it was my first deployment. I was in the 158 before their 2006 deployment and re-joined later. I wasn't sure how well I'd do competing from overseas, but I knew everyone else in the league had done it at some point. ZERGER: This was my first year in the league and my first and only time in Afghanistan (although I'd been to Iraq twice). It brought back a lot of memories seeing familiar names that I hadn't necessarily forgotten but hadn't talked to in a while. I do believe that systems such as our league keep veterans in touch and might help some of our brothers reach out if they need help or something.  Chronicling a Rivalry The Killman Memorial Trophy and the inaugural AFC championship jersey have made their way to the Pacific Northwest. War Pony manager Jimmy Venable will keep the Killman until a new champion is crowned. The jersey is his to keep, hang, mount on the wall or wear as a pajamas top.
 2014 NFC and overall OIL champion Christopher Trovillo received his championship jersey this week. Here he is showing off the Harrington Trophy, the Tenequer Memorial Trophy, his Dirty Hippies jersey, his Dirty Hippies mini-helmet, and his son.
Attached are the full uniform sets for all 14 OIL1 franchises. Click on the image to go to the team page with full size images. Which one is your favorite? If you could change anything, what would it be? What color schemes would you like included in any future rebrands? Do you have suggestions on how to recreate the Hard Targets' camouflage helmet in real life? What about the Dirty Hippies' tie-dyed helmet? Normally, the OIL goes to HelmetNation.com for their helmets, but those two helmets present greater difficulty. Please let us know in the comments if you know how to procure a digital camouflage mini-helmet or a tie-dyed helmet. The league champion each year gets a custom jersey made by HopcoSports.com (in addition to the Harrington Trophy), and these serve as the templates for those championship prizes. Each uniform mockup was developed by Andrew Krause Design.
Henderson's DARC NARCS unveiled their uniforms today. They were designed by Andrew Krause Design. They've been added to Henderson's manager page.
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