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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: No, you can't just snap a broken fibula back into place or shrug off torn ligaments with a single steroid injection and act like nothing happened. Naturally, this is all for the sake of gameplay, and in all fairness, there are some injuries that are too severe to power through. Then again, a lot of the doctors you can hire are morally questionable at best, so who knows what they could be doing behind closed doors?
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Compare this to the earlier ''NFL Blitz'' games and you'll find this series to be in a [[{{Pun}} league]] of its own. Licensed hard rock/rap soundtrack? Check. Politics and gambling influencing game outcomes? Check. Shady characters trying to screw other teams from the sidelines? Check. [[HotterAndSexier Gratuitous sexiness from cheerleaders and prostitutes]]? Check. Having enough blood and gore to rival ''Mortal Kombat'' while coming up with the concepts of X-Ray Attacks first? ''Hell yes''.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Compare this to the earlier ''NFL Blitz'' games and you'll find this series to be in a [[{{Pun}} league]] of its own. Licensed hard rock/rap soundtrack? Check. Politics and gambling influencing game outcomes? Check. Shady characters figureheads trying to screw other teams from the sidelines? Check. Casual drug use? Check. [[HotterAndSexier Gratuitous sexiness from cheerleaders and prostitutes]]? Check. Having enough blood and gore to rival ''Mortal Kombat'' while coming up with the concepts of X-Ray Attacks first? ''Hell yes''.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Compare this to the earlier ''NFL Blitz'' games and you'll find this series to be in a [[{{Pun}} league]] of its own. Licensed hard rock/rap soundtrack? Check. Politics and gambling influencing game outcomes? Check. Shady characters trying to screw other teams from the sidelines? Check. [[HotterAndSexier Gratuitous sexiness from cheerleaders and prostitutes]]? Check. Having enough blood and gore to rival ''Mortal Kombat'' while coming up with the concepts of X-Ray Attacks first? ''Hell yes''.
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* UpdatedReRelease: The [=PSP=] exclusive ''Blitz: Overtime'', which contains additional balance updates, teams, and game modes.
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* RatedMForManly: Blitz is a more brutal form of football, with the offense and defense alike getting in on the violence in front of seemingly apathetic referees. Highlights include the player earning points for illegal moves like Horsecollars (a grab by the shoulder pads) and facemasks (grabbing the front of the helmet). During extremely brutal tackles, X-ray cutaways show ''how'' exactly the unfortunate player is going to be injured, ranging from showing the nerves in his shoulder tweaking, to his vertebrae shattering.
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* UnnecessaryRoughness: Actions that would result in fouls in the NFL go completely uncalled in The League, with the player earning points for illegal moves like Horsecollars (a grab by the shoulder pads) and facemasks (grabbing the front of the helmet).
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[[caption-width-right:220:[[TabletopGame/BloodBowl Less elves, more steroids]].]]
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** There are no real world counterparts to ''Blitz II'''s Mexico City Aztecs and Vancouver Beavers. Currently, there are only US-based teams in the NFL, and there legally cannot be a Canadian NFL team due to a law prohibiting NFL franchises while the CFL (Canadian Football League) still exists and many think a Mexican franchise is not feasible.
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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Many of the tackles and tackle breaks look more like moves from the WWE than the NFL, with suplexes and flying elbows aplenty and many opportunities to [[KickThemWhileTheyreDown continue the carnage after the whistle]].
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In this alternate version of the NFL, unsportsmanlike conduct isn't punished, it's encouraged. The League is American Football as a BloodSport, with no penalties for late hits, illegal grabs or even bench clearing brawls that would have gotten teams disqualified in hockey.
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** The Commissioner's relentless promotion of the LA Riot means nothing in the end despite his continuous efforts to sabotage Franchise's career. The Commissioner starts the Riot in a higher division than Franchise's new team, bends the rules to ensure the Riot make the qualifiers and fakes a positive drug test on Franchise that almost ruins him. For all his efforts, Franchise's team manage to beat the Riot in the finals [[spoiler: and Sands convicts him of insider trading]].
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** There are no real world counterparts to ''Blitz II'''s Mexico City Aztecs and Vancouver Beavers. Currently, there are only US-based teams in the NFL, and there legally cannot be a Canadian NFL team due to a law prohibiting NFL franchises while the CFL (Canadian Football League) still exists and many think a Mexican franchise is not feasible.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Naturally. None of the violence players in The League commit would fly in the NFL. One such example of this contrast is defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who was fined over $200,000 during the first four years of his career for unnecessary roughness, late hits and attacking other players, all things that are encouraged in ''Blitz''.
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** Players can also take steroids for performance boosts, and the player character even gets sent to jail for a drug offense as an excuse for a brutal game of prison ball.
** Players can also take steroids for performance boosts, and the player character even gets sent to jail for a drug offense as an excuse for a brutal game of prison ball.
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* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: In the second game, if Franchise sustains a major injury, it is an automatic GameOver.
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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Many of the tackles and tackle breaks look more like moves from the WWE than the NFL, with suplexes and flying elbows aplenty and many opportunities to [[KickThemWhileTheyreDown continue the carnage after the whistle]].
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Many of the tackles and tackle breaks look more like moves from the WWE than the NFL, with suplexes and flying elbows aplenty and many opportunities to [[KickThemWhileTheyreDown continue the carnage after the whistle]].
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** Players can also take steroids for performance boosts, and the player character even gets sent to jail for a drug offense as an excuse for a brutal game of prison ball.
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** Cookie Wallace, a diva receiver on the downswing of his career and carrying a rep as "Locker room cancer" is based on Terrell Owens. Who carried a similar reputation as his career went on.
** Shane Spain is basically Brett Favre. The veteran gunslinger QB who just refuses to retire, and even came out of one retirement to keep playing.
** Tito Maas is based off Washington wide receiver Santana Moss. Both famous for being not the biggest guy on the field, but being very hard to catch and bring down.
** Shane Spain is basically Brett Favre. The veteran gunslinger QB who just refuses to retire, and even came out of one retirement to keep playing.
** Tito Maas is based off Washington wide receiver Santana Moss. Both famous for being not the biggest guy on the field, but being very hard to catch and bring down.
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Whatever success the Player-Created Team had in the first game ended up being undone by the events of the sequel, as Lyman Strang was indicted for gross misuse of public funds and forced to sell the team to The League due to his newfound bankruptcy, who would move them to Philadelphia and rebrand them as the Brawlers. The team dropped back to Division III and developed a reputation as sloppy hacks who can't win without cheating.]]
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* BadassDecay: By the time the sequel rolls around, Cookie Wallace, captain of the Detroit Devils, gets hit with this so hard as he starts to get past his prime and his ego inflates in response that he drags the whole team down with him. They go from Division I in the first game all the way down to Division III in the second.
** The Philadelphia Brawlers get it even worse, but not for an immediately obvious reason. [[spoiler:They're actually the result of all the corruption of Lyman Strang, the owner of the created team from the first game's campaign, coming back to bite him in the ass, forcing him to sell the team to the League. They promptly move and rename the team, who quickly drop back to Division III, develop a reputation as sloppy hacks who have to cheat to win, and wind up as Franchise's team's first opponents of the season. Yeesh!]]
** The Philadelphia Brawlers get it even worse, but not for an immediately obvious reason. [[spoiler:They're actually the result of all the corruption of Lyman Strang, the owner of the created team from the first game's campaign, coming back to bite him in the ass, forcing him to sell the team to the League. They promptly move and rename the team, who quickly drop back to Division III, develop a reputation as sloppy hacks who have to cheat to win, and wind up as Franchise's team's first opponents of the season. Yeesh!]]
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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: At the start of ''II'', Kid Franchise refuses to play for the Los Angeles Riot, insisting on going to his hometown team. But when it's time for the player to create the team's identity, they can just put the team in LA anyway.
** In the original, Lyman Strang insists on a total rebrand of the player's team after they get knocked back down to Division III, but if you look closely at the team's helmets, you'll see a variation on the eagle logo the game allows you to use. You can also stick with the team's old blue, orange, and white if you want that aesthetic connection to stay.
** In the original, Lyman Strang insists on a total rebrand of the player's team after they get knocked back down to Division III, but if you look closely at the team's helmets, you'll see a variation on the eagle logo the game allows you to use. You can also stick with the team's old blue, orange, and white if you want that aesthetic connection to stay.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: Karl Tirpitz, a Supermax prisoner who was convicted of [[AxCrazy 23 counts of aggravated assault]] and the captain of that facility's team, ends up joining Franchise's team after his early release.
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** Karl Tirpitz, a Supermax prisoner who was convicted of [[AxCrazy 23 counts of aggravated assault]] and the captain of that team's facility, ends up joining Franchise's team after his early release.
* PrisonEpisode: At one point in Franchise's career, he gets sent to the Milltown Correctional Facility for testing positive for Ultranol, an illegal performance enhancing drug. It just so happens that the prison holds an annual football game against the Supermax Prison Facility, and the unnamed warden promises Franchise an early release if he wins.
** Unsurprisingly, the "stadium" has a distinct prison flavor, from the poorly-kept field and jumpsuits, to the ambiance and the cheerleaders wearing stripper cop outfits.
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* TheUnfought: Whenever you win a lower division and move up to the higher one, you replace the team that came in last in the higher division. As such, you end up skipping a couple teams in both campaign modes.
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* {{Stripperific}}: Cheerleaders in this series usually wear little more than bikini tops, g-strings, mini-skirts, stockings and high-heels. They make the NFL's cheerleaders look wholesome in comparison.
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** The Philadelphia Brawlers get it even worse, but not for an immediately obvious reason. [[spoiler:They're actually the result of all the corruption Lyman Strang, the owner of the created team from the first game's campaign, coming back to bite him in the ass, forcing him to sell the team to the League. They promptly move and rename the team, who quickly drop back to Division III, develop a reputation as sloppy hacks who have to cheat to win, and wind up as Franchise's team's first opponents of the season. Yeesh!]]
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** The Philadelphia Brawlers get it even worse, but not for an immediately obvious reason. [[spoiler:They're actually the result of all the corruption of Lyman Strang, the owner of the created team from the first game's campaign, coming back to bite him in the ass, forcing him to sell the team to the League. They promptly move and rename the team, who quickly drop back to Division III, develop a reputation as sloppy hacks who have to cheat to win, and wind up as Franchise's team's first opponents of the season. Yeesh!]]
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** The Philadelphia Brawlers got hit with this ''hard'' by the time the sequel comes around, but not for an immediately obvious reason. [[spoiler:They're actually the result of all the corruption Lyman Strang, the owner of the created team from the first game's campaign, coming back to bite him in the ass, forcing him to sell the team to the League. They promptly move and rename the team, who quickly drop back to Division III, develop a reputation as sloppy hacks who have to cheat to win, and wind up as Franchise's team's first opponents of the season. Yeesh!]]
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** The Philadelphia Brawlers got hit with this ''hard'' by the time the sequel comes around, get it even worse, but not for an immediately obvious reason. [[spoiler:They're actually the result of all the corruption Lyman Strang, the owner of the created team from the first game's campaign, coming back to bite him in the ass, forcing him to sell the team to the League. They promptly move and rename the team, who quickly drop back to Division III, develop a reputation as sloppy hacks who have to cheat to win, and wind up as Franchise's team's first opponents of the season. Yeesh!]]
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* BadassDecay: By the time the sequel rolls around, Cookie Wallace, captain of the Detroit Devils, gets hit with this so hard as he starts to get past his prime and his ego inflates in response that he drags the whole team down with him. They go from Division I in the first game all the way down to Division III in the second.
** The Philadelphia Brawlers got hit with this ''hard'' by the time the sequel comes around, but not for an immediately obvious reason. [[spoiler:They're actually the result of all the corruption Lyman Strang, the owner of the created team from the first game's campaign, coming back to bite him in the ass, forcing him to sell the team to the League. They promptly move and rename the team, who quickly drop back to Division III, develop a reputation as sloppy hacks who have to cheat to win, and wind up as Franchise's team's first opponents of the season. Yeesh!]]
** The Philadelphia Brawlers got hit with this ''hard'' by the time the sequel comes around, but not for an immediately obvious reason. [[spoiler:They're actually the result of all the corruption Lyman Strang, the owner of the created team from the first game's campaign, coming back to bite him in the ass, forcing him to sell the team to the League. They promptly move and rename the team, who quickly drop back to Division III, develop a reputation as sloppy hacks who have to cheat to win, and wind up as Franchise's team's first opponents of the season. Yeesh!]]
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** [[spoiler:Quentin Sands himself makes a face turn in the second campaign, once he realizes that taking down the Riot and winning another championship is more important than feuding with Franchise over which one should be the star player. He ultimately proves instrumental to not only winning the League Championship, but getting the evidence needed to arrest Commissioner Clive Hanson and have him removed from power.]]
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** [spoiler]Many of your potential options for the rookie and veteran protagonists from the first game's campaign also go bad by the time the second game comes around. Clayton Wescott becomes a full-blown egotist as the Washington Redhawks' QB[=/=]captain, Ted Lawless and Kurt Shock both end up on the cheating New England Regulars, Justin Jonas and Darryl Kinsman both end up on the LA Riot's overpowered roster when you hit Division I, and even Tyrone Kilgore signs with the New York Nightmare--though, considering the Nightmare aren't the enemy anymore, it's more of a betrayal to the old player-created team's fanbase than anything.[/spoiler]
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* HeelFaceTurn: In the sequel, multiple teams trade their more obnoxious captains from the first game for relative nice guys. The Las Vegas Aces, for instance, replace the egotistical Kelvin Diggs, who didn't gel with the rest of the roster's team-first mentality, with respected veteran Amos Newell, while the New York Nightmare's new captain, Kyle Carlson, proves much more of an introvert and quiet professional than Quentin Sands.
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* FaceHeelTurn: In the sequel, some teams change captains and end up with more antagonistic guys in that spot than they did before. For instance, the New England Regulars' original captain, Vonnie Treonday, was a trash-talker who could back it up, but by 2008, they've got a championship win with the dark clouds of cheating allegations over it, and their new captain, "Packrat" James, is implied to have been arrested on felony weapons charges--only to have them dropped because he has lawyers.
** [spoiler]Many of your potential options for the rookie and veteran protagonists from the first game's campaign also go bad by the time the second game comes around. Clayton Wescott becomes a full-blown egotist as the Washington Redhawks' QB[=/=]captain, Ted Lawless and Kurt Shock both end up on the cheating New England Regulars, Justin Jonas and Darryl Kinsman both end up on the LA Riot's overpowered roster when you hit Division I, and even Tyrone Kilgore signs with the New York Nightmare--though, considering the Nightmare aren't the enemy anymore, it's more of a betrayal to the old player-created team's fanbase than anything.[/spoiler]
* HeelFaceTurn:In the sequel, The sequel also sees multiple teams trade their more obnoxious captains from the first game for relative nice guys. The Las Vegas Aces, for instance, replace the egotistical Kelvin Diggs, who didn't gel with the rest of the roster's team-first mentality, with respected veteran Amos Newell, while the New York Nightmare's new captain, Kyle Carlson, proves much more of an introvert and quiet professional than Quentin Sands.
** [spoiler]Many of your potential options for the rookie and veteran protagonists from the first game's campaign also go bad by the time the second game comes around. Clayton Wescott becomes a full-blown egotist as the Washington Redhawks' QB[=/=]captain, Ted Lawless and Kurt Shock both end up on the cheating New England Regulars, Justin Jonas and Darryl Kinsman both end up on the LA Riot's overpowered roster when you hit Division I, and even Tyrone Kilgore signs with the New York Nightmare--though, considering the Nightmare aren't the enemy anymore, it's more of a betrayal to the old player-created team's fanbase than anything.[/spoiler]
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* AscendedFanboy: H.J. Latshaw, of the second game's Philadelphia Brawlers, went from ordinary FootballHooligan to team captain in less than a year because he got in a fight in the stands and the team decided to give him a tryout instead of kicking him out.
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* AscendedFanboy: H.J. Latshaw, of the second game's Philadelphia Brawlers, went from ordinary FootballHooligan fan to team captain in less than a year because he got in a fight in the stands and the team decided to give him a tryout instead of kicking him out.out.
* BulletTime: On offense, Clash Mode sends the game into this, making it much easier to shake off defenders.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the sequel, multiple teams trade their more obnoxious captains from the first game for relative nice guys. The Las Vegas Aces, for instance, replace the egotistical Kelvin Diggs, who didn't gel with the rest of the roster's team-first mentality, with respected veteran Amos Newell, while the New York Nightmare's new captain, Kyle Carlson, proves much more of an introvert and quiet professional than Quentin Sands.
* BulletTime: On offense, Clash Mode sends the game into this, making it much easier to shake off defenders.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the sequel, multiple teams trade their more obnoxious captains from the first game for relative nice guys. The Las Vegas Aces, for instance, replace the egotistical Kelvin Diggs, who didn't gel with the rest of the roster's team-first mentality, with respected veteran Amos Newell, while the New York Nightmare's new captain, Kyle Carlson, proves much more of an introvert and quiet professional than Quentin Sands.
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* TheUnfought: Whenever you win a lower division and move up to the higher one, you replace the team that came in last in the higher division. As such, you end up skipping a couple teams in both campaign modes.
* TheUnfought: Whenever you win a lower division and move up to the higher one, you replace the team that came in last in the higher division. As such, you end up skipping a couple teams in both campaign modes.
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The year is 2004, and Creator/MidwayGames has a problem. Last year's edition of their popular ''VideoGame/NFLBlitz'' series, ''NFL Blitz PRO'', was the most toned-down, realistic ''Blitz'' yet thanks to UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague lobbyists forcing them to dial back the games' signature violence, and the result was a flop, both commercially and critically. To make things worse, their rivals over at Creator/ElectronicArts just signed an exclusive license with the NFL, making ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL'' (and ''[[VideoGame/EASportsStreet NFL Street]]'', until that died out a few years later) the only game in town as far as UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball video games went. So now, Midway was faced with a choice: take a premature axe to their iconic football series...or go their own way, start their own league, and create a version of football so brutal that it made the NFL's old complaints look absurd.
The result was ''Blitz: The League'', originally released in fall 2005 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, with UsefulNotes/Xbox360 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable ports the following year. Not content with merely returning ''Blitz'' to its arcade roots, ''The League'' reveled in RatedMForManly excess, with gameplay that encouraged dirty hits, steroid use, gambling, and every other seedy vice the NFL would never want to be part of its image. This all came packaged with an entire fictional league called, well, [[ShapedLikeItself The League]], complete with a promotion-relegation system like soccer leagues outside the U.S. use, its own detailed century-long backstory, and 17 teams, each with their own outlandish star players. This all paved the way for a single-player story mode written by the team behind ESPN's controversial football drama ''Playmakers'', where the 18th team of the league, after a humiliating season that ends with them getting sent down to the lowest division and their quarterback retired at the hands of the New York Nightmare's star linebacker Quentin Sands--played by his real-life inspiration, NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor-- go through a total overhaul in an attempt to finally win a championship and get their revenge.
The game was successful enough to get a 2008 sequel, appropriately named ''Blitz: The League II'', with its own storyline set three years later. This time, you play as [[InSeriesNickname Kid Franchise]], the League's first [[MasterOfAll two-way player]] in decades, as he leads his newly-created hometown team up through the ranks and battles the League's corrupt commissioner, who wants his pet expansion team, the LA Riot, to be the next big dynasty at any cost.
However, hopes of a third entry in the series quickly hit a brick wall in early 2009, as Midway filed for bankruptcy and saw its assets bought off one by one. With EA now holding the license to the ''Blitz'' name, if not necessarily The League's universe, it's unclear if or when the series will ever come back.
!The Blitz: The League games feature examples of the following tropes:
* TheAce: Kid Franchise, the protagonist of ''II'''s campaign, is presented right from the start as a guaranteed star, with enough athleticism to do what no one else in the League can do and instantly become his team's captain. He even has an offer to play pro baseball waiting for him, which his agent uses to make sure Franchise can play for his hometown team instead of the Riot.
* AdamWesting: The infamously hard-hitting, hard-partying Lawrence Taylor plays Quentin Sands, a star linebacker who shares his jersey number, college background, and lifestyle. Starting with the 360 port of the first game, the even more violent (not to mention hated) Bill Romanowski does the same with his in-game equivalent, Bruno Battaglia.
* AlternateHistory: The League has its own elaborate history of the game of football, which diverges before 1900 and presents a consistently more brutal version of events than what happened in real life, but features plenty of its own parallels.
* AscendedFanboy: H.J. Latshaw, of the second game's Philadelphia Brawlers, went from ordinary FootballHooligan to team captain in less than a year because he got in a fight in the stands and the team decided to give him a tryout instead of kicking him out.
* {{Jerkass}}: Half the League would qualify for this trope if you put them in real football, what with their normalization of late hits, excessive violence, and trash-talk. However, Baltimore Bearcats captain Bruno Battaglia stands out as one even by this game's standards, with a reputation for violence and general asshole behavior from the beginning. Once he joins your team on the way to Division II, he continues to act like a jerk and sow dissent in the team. And then in the sequel, just to make sure you ''know'' he's surpassed Quentin Sands in dickishness, he becomes the LA Riot's first captain and starts knocking people out with a titanium plate he had put in his elbow before the start of the 2008 season.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Downplayed with the New York Nightmare in the first game's story. They're dominant arch-rivals from a gigantic media market, with a scary name, black-and-purple uniforms, and many of the other trappings of this trope, but ultimately, your beef is with Quentin Sands for what he did to your team, not necessarily everybody on the Nightmare roster.
** The Los Angeles Riot, on the other hand, go full-tilt into this, checking many of the Nightmare's boxes while making the franchise as a whole incredibly easy to hate. The Commissioner created the Riot with the express purpose of having a star-studded franchise in a big market and constantly bends the League's rules to get them to a League Championship as fast as possible.
The result was ''Blitz: The League'', originally released in fall 2005 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, with UsefulNotes/Xbox360 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable ports the following year. Not content with merely returning ''Blitz'' to its arcade roots, ''The League'' reveled in RatedMForManly excess, with gameplay that encouraged dirty hits, steroid use, gambling, and every other seedy vice the NFL would never want to be part of its image. This all came packaged with an entire fictional league called, well, [[ShapedLikeItself The League]], complete with a promotion-relegation system like soccer leagues outside the U.S. use, its own detailed century-long backstory, and 17 teams, each with their own outlandish star players. This all paved the way for a single-player story mode written by the team behind ESPN's controversial football drama ''Playmakers'', where the 18th team of the league, after a humiliating season that ends with them getting sent down to the lowest division and their quarterback retired at the hands of the New York Nightmare's star linebacker Quentin Sands--played by his real-life inspiration, NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor-- go through a total overhaul in an attempt to finally win a championship and get their revenge.
The game was successful enough to get a 2008 sequel, appropriately named ''Blitz: The League II'', with its own storyline set three years later. This time, you play as [[InSeriesNickname Kid Franchise]], the League's first [[MasterOfAll two-way player]] in decades, as he leads his newly-created hometown team up through the ranks and battles the League's corrupt commissioner, who wants his pet expansion team, the LA Riot, to be the next big dynasty at any cost.
However, hopes of a third entry in the series quickly hit a brick wall in early 2009, as Midway filed for bankruptcy and saw its assets bought off one by one. With EA now holding the license to the ''Blitz'' name, if not necessarily The League's universe, it's unclear if or when the series will ever come back.
!The Blitz: The League games feature examples of the following tropes:
* TheAce: Kid Franchise, the protagonist of ''II'''s campaign, is presented right from the start as a guaranteed star, with enough athleticism to do what no one else in the League can do and instantly become his team's captain. He even has an offer to play pro baseball waiting for him, which his agent uses to make sure Franchise can play for his hometown team instead of the Riot.
* AdamWesting: The infamously hard-hitting, hard-partying Lawrence Taylor plays Quentin Sands, a star linebacker who shares his jersey number, college background, and lifestyle. Starting with the 360 port of the first game, the even more violent (not to mention hated) Bill Romanowski does the same with his in-game equivalent, Bruno Battaglia.
* AlternateHistory: The League has its own elaborate history of the game of football, which diverges before 1900 and presents a consistently more brutal version of events than what happened in real life, but features plenty of its own parallels.
* AscendedFanboy: H.J. Latshaw, of the second game's Philadelphia Brawlers, went from ordinary FootballHooligan to team captain in less than a year because he got in a fight in the stands and the team decided to give him a tryout instead of kicking him out.
* {{Jerkass}}: Half the League would qualify for this trope if you put them in real football, what with their normalization of late hits, excessive violence, and trash-talk. However, Baltimore Bearcats captain Bruno Battaglia stands out as one even by this game's standards, with a reputation for violence and general asshole behavior from the beginning. Once he joins your team on the way to Division II, he continues to act like a jerk and sow dissent in the team. And then in the sequel, just to make sure you ''know'' he's surpassed Quentin Sands in dickishness, he becomes the LA Riot's first captain and starts knocking people out with a titanium plate he had put in his elbow before the start of the 2008 season.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Downplayed with the New York Nightmare in the first game's story. They're dominant arch-rivals from a gigantic media market, with a scary name, black-and-purple uniforms, and many of the other trappings of this trope, but ultimately, your beef is with Quentin Sands for what he did to your team, not necessarily everybody on the Nightmare roster.
** The Los Angeles Riot, on the other hand, go full-tilt into this, checking many of the Nightmare's boxes while making the franchise as a whole incredibly easy to hate. The Commissioner created the Riot with the express purpose of having a star-studded franchise in a big market and constantly bends the League's rules to get them to a League Championship as fast as possible.
