Milwaukee Flamingos

The Milwaukee Flamingos are a Golly team from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are a benevolent flock of birds who love to gamble, and have an unofficial anti-rival status with every team they have ever played.

Milwaukee Flamingos
"Birds with bad attitudes at high latitudes"
Team Information
Name Milwaukee Flamingos Abbreviation MILF Primary Color #ff66cc Logo    Hometown Milwaukee Emoji Status Active
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History

The Flamingos been in the Golly league since Season 1.

A brief season-by-season summary:

• In Season 1 the Milwaukee Flamingos finished last in the Hot Fire Division and did not make the playoffs.
• In Season 2 the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, but were knocked out in the Championship Series by the Orlando Business Majors
• In Season 3 the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
• In Season 4 the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
• In Season 5 the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #1 seed in the Hot League, and won the Hot League pennant. They lost the Hellmouth Cup series to the Elko Astronauts.
• In Season 6 the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
• In Season 7 the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, but were knocked out in the Division Series by the Alewife Arsonists.
• In Season 8 the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, but were knocked out in the Division Series by their Midwest Crown rival, the Detroit Grape Chews.
• In Season 9 the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #3 seed in the Hot League, and won the Hot League pennant. They went on to win the Hellmouth Cup series 4-1 against the Tucson Butchers and developed a complicated, messy anti-rivalry with the Butchers.
• In Season 10 the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, and won the Hot League pennant. They went on to win the Hellmouth Cup series 4-3 against the Tucson Butchers, continuing their complicated, messy anti-rivalry with the Butchers in the Valentine's Day Series.

Team Character

The Milwaukee Flamingos are legendary throughout the league for their benevolence and splortsmanship. Milwaukee Flamingos are known to be fun, chill, and universally likeable.

Perhaps the most important characteristic of the Flamingos, though, is their love of gambling. When traveling for away games, the Flamingos will book their own hotel and turn the entire hotel into a gigantic multi-room casino. The Milwaukee Flamingos have enough players that they have developed their own economy, interest rates, and loans, so that every player can gamble all of the time.

The Milwaukee Flamingos were the second Golly team to develop their own economy, after the Delaware Corporate Shells were the first team to establish a team economy as part of the First Delaware Embezzlement Scandal in Season 3.

Flamingos players are also bureaucratic experts, with every team function being run according to Robert's Rules of Order. The team had 1,562 parliamentarians in the last team census.

Midwest Crown and Rivalry with Detroit Grape Chews

Main: Midwest Crown

The rivalry between the Detroit Grape Chews and the Milwaukee Flamingos is one of the most storied rivalries in all of Golly. Much of the Detroit Grape Chews' team identity has been formed from the rivalry, and evidence has shown that the on-field fistfights during Grape Chews-Flamingos matches are more intense and result in more injuries than fistfights between the Grape Chews and any other team.

Unlike the Grape Chews, however, the Flamingos have worked hard to establish their own identity as a benevolent flock of birds and distance themselves from the Grape Chews. While many of the Milwaukee Flamingos players sport the black eyes and broken teeth of their Midwest Crown rivals, Flamingos players have never been known to get into a single fistfight outside of their matches with the Detroit Grape Chews.

The rivalry has grown more intense with time, as the Flamingos have become increasingly cold toward the Grape Chews and increasingly benevolent toward the rest of the league, which leads the Grape Chews to feel slighted, intensifying their aggression toward the Flamingos. Reports that the Flamingos were developing a new and intense anti-rivalry with the Tucson Butchers fanned the flames further.

In Season 10 the Milwaukee Flamingos raced to reach the postseason and face off with their new anti-rivals, the Tucson Butchers, while the Grape Chews had a disappointing season, failing to reach the postseason for only the second time in ten seasons.

Hellmouth Cup

Season 9 Snowbird Series and Anti-Rivalry with Tucson Butchers

Main: Season 9#Snowbird Series

Being in the Hot League, the Milwaukee Flamingos have primarily only faced other Hot League teams. In Season 5, however, the Flamingos made it to the Hellmouth Cup, where they faced off against the Elko Astronauts. Word of the Flamingos' benevolence spread fast through the Cold League, including to the Tucson Butchers, the anti-rivals of the Astronauts, who heard stories about Flamingos who were fun-loving, compulsive gamblers, and dreamed of one day getting to meat the Flamingos.

In Season 9 the Milwaukee Flamingos and Tucson Butchers finally faced off in the Hellmouth Cup, in a matchup dubbed the "Snowbird Series". The two teams fell deeply and instantly into a messy, complicated, inter-tangled anti-rivalry. Both teams finished the season eager to meet their anti-rivals on the grid again.

Season 10 Valentines Day Series and Continuing Anti-Rivalry with Butchers

Main: Season 10#Valentines Day Series

Due to the many unresovled storylines and tangled loose ends from the Season 9 Hellmouth Cup and newly budding anti-rivalry between the Flamingos and the Butchers, the two teams resolved to meet again soon in the Hellmouth Cup.

Working feverishly toward that end, both teams spent Season 10 attempting to make the finals. Both teams were successful, and won each round of their playoffs bracket. The two teams met for a second time on Valentine's Day, forever cementing the second series continuing their anti-rivalry as the Valentine's Day Series in the Golly history books.

Artwork

Season 9 Hellmouth Cup Poster

The Artists Union created a promotional poster for the Season 9 Hellmouth Cup series between the Flamingos and the Tucson Butchers:

Season 10 Hellmouth Cup Poster

The Artists Union copied and pasted the following promotional poster for the Season 10 Hellmouth Cup series between the Flamingos and the Tucson Butchers:

(NOTE: The Artists Union charge full price for both posters.)

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