Gunnar Söderberg had the misfortune of waking up one morning to discover that he had left his credit card at a bar the night before. If this were one of the bars the team regularly visited, this wouldn't be a problem - the bartenders are all pretty cool at the local places they frequent, and would have just given it back to him. But this was a bar in another city, and apparently they weren't quite as trustworthy, because in the eight or so hours since Gunnar left the credit card there, several things had happened.

First, the person had used his credit card to purchase at least nineteen aquariums. Not small, manageable aquariums to put in your house (and even if they were, who has room for nineteen of them) but very large ones. Then, presumably to put in the tanks, this person also ordered nineteen dozen turtles. Gunnar immediately canceled the card, but the damage was done. Even more perplexing, the person who ordered the tanks and turtles seemed to have forgotten to put in their own address, and the items were scheduled for overnight delivery to Gunnar's own home in Chicago. Now, while Gunnar loves turtles, he was obviously not in a position to house nineteen tanks of them in his two-bedroom condo in downtown Chicago - there simply wasn't enough room.

He talked to his credit card company, and while they were able to cancel the credit card, they also refused to take back the charges, because apparently Gunnar spends a lot of money on turtle-related things and it simply wasn't believable that someone else would have done this on his behalf. Thinking fast, Gunnar managed to contact the company shipping the aquariums and turtles, and was able to have the delivery rerouted to an aquarium in Chicago, who accepted the donation of turtles and habitats very gratefully. Anyway, that's why a lesser-known aquarium in Chicago now has the Gunnar Söderberg Turtle Extravaganza Exhibit, where the public can come and observe some incredibly ordinary turtles doing turtle stuff. Many of the turtles are named after Syndicate players (like Ryan Shellpard and Jukka Turlmonen), but there are so many turtles that some of them are also named after other players from around the league, featuring such impressive individuals as First-Turtle Last-Turtle, Danny Marstortoise, and Magnus Liljesturtle.