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OIL Countdown: Fact #34
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Hillier FF manager Thomas Hillier is the only OILer to ever draft a kicker in the first round. In 2014, Hillier drafted Stephen Gostkowski in round one, although he did it by mistake. There was a site-wide draft glitch that year on Yahoo!, but the AFC voted to keep the draft results (why? I have no idea; maybe they wanted to sabotage Hillier). But Hillier outperformed expectations, and he and Gostkowski made it to their first championship game anyway, losing to Venable's War Pony in the Thunder Bowl.
Unfortunately, Hillier was so traumatized by that loss that he quit caring about his team . . . afraid to get his hopes up again just to have them smashed to pieces by heartless senior NCOs. His team is the fantasy equivalent of a man who had his heart broken and now refuses to shave or shower, determined to never again get close enough to a woman to run the risk of having his heart broken a second time. "Fool me once . . ." is his unofficial team motto. Sad, really.
Unfortunately, Hillier was so traumatized by that loss that he quit caring about his team . . . afraid to get his hopes up again just to have them smashed to pieces by heartless senior NCOs. His team is the fantasy equivalent of a man who had his heart broken and now refuses to shave or shower, determined to never again get close enough to a woman to run the risk of having his heart broken a second time. "Fool me once . . ." is his unofficial team motto. Sad, really.
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