Keerock
Footballguy
Yeah... prolly not PC to ask any of those questions any more.
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Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Have a seat right over here.
Chadstroma
Footballguy
I am trying to for the life of me remember when I first started. I know 2000 for sure but can't say that when I started or if it is just when my broken memory can pinpoint a memory tied to a time. I can't because my memory is not so good in my old age. I do think 1999 sounds right.
A single young 20's kid living in either So or Nor Cal (depending on when I actually did start). Working at a bank able to play in an rec basketball or softball game.
Turned into
An old now upper 40's living in the burbs of Chicago, married with 3 young kids. Working as a mortgage broker and with a ridiculous number of ailments and desperate need to lose weight.
I do know that I stumbled in here when I first started playing fantasy football and having no real idea of what I was doing. I barely understood the concept as my friends had played rotisserie baseball for a long time and I could never quite grasp the concept for some reason. Wait, so how do they play against each other when it is a make belief team?
I somewhere migrated over to the FFA. A few years down the line I ended up in a few years of being unemployed/underemployed after losing my job in banking in 2007 and let's just say the next few years were a little rough for the financial services industry. I spent a whole lot of time in the FFA... I will admit too much. In fact, many of us did. I would venture a guess and say that if we had harnessed the amount of brainpower, talent, ability, knowledge, etc of the FFA in those days and directed them towards the good of humanity, world hunger would have been solved. The amount of people that "That's what I do, I know stuff and post in the FFA" was staggering. That time frame was likely the golden age of the forum as the way the innerwebs has evolved seems to have left message boards behind so most of those here, I would suspect, are older versus younger and likely not as many people as there once was.
Some awesome stuff has come out of this group that really there is no business of happening. Back in those days, I did spend an awful lot of time battling it out in the political/social issues with those who thought different than me. Sometimes even in a heated way. Then you end up meeting them in person.... and you are laughing, drinking and hugging like you grew up in the same neighborhood together as kids and are just happy to see each other.
Most recently for me in going through one of the hardest times in my life with my wife being diagnosed with cancer and starting her fight I felt I needed an outlet just to let loose my thoughts and feelings and fears and everything. I turned to here. My thing was just to get it out and I underestimated the amount of support I would get from it. Tons of responses in the thread but a silly amount of private messages offering not just the emotional support of being a good friend but things from wanting to send money to tapping into their resources of people they know to get help with the cancer to 'anything you need'. The support I have got from here has been a true and real help.
There is something special about this place for us OG's. That is why we are still around I think,
A single young 20's kid living in either So or Nor Cal (depending on when I actually did start). Working at a bank able to play in an rec basketball or softball game.
Turned into
An old now upper 40's living in the burbs of Chicago, married with 3 young kids. Working as a mortgage broker and with a ridiculous number of ailments and desperate need to lose weight.
I do know that I stumbled in here when I first started playing fantasy football and having no real idea of what I was doing. I barely understood the concept as my friends had played rotisserie baseball for a long time and I could never quite grasp the concept for some reason. Wait, so how do they play against each other when it is a make belief team?
I somewhere migrated over to the FFA. A few years down the line I ended up in a few years of being unemployed/underemployed after losing my job in banking in 2007 and let's just say the next few years were a little rough for the financial services industry. I spent a whole lot of time in the FFA... I will admit too much. In fact, many of us did. I would venture a guess and say that if we had harnessed the amount of brainpower, talent, ability, knowledge, etc of the FFA in those days and directed them towards the good of humanity, world hunger would have been solved. The amount of people that "That's what I do, I know stuff and post in the FFA" was staggering. That time frame was likely the golden age of the forum as the way the innerwebs has evolved seems to have left message boards behind so most of those here, I would suspect, are older versus younger and likely not as many people as there once was.
Some awesome stuff has come out of this group that really there is no business of happening. Back in those days, I did spend an awful lot of time battling it out in the political/social issues with those who thought different than me. Sometimes even in a heated way. Then you end up meeting them in person.... and you are laughing, drinking and hugging like you grew up in the same neighborhood together as kids and are just happy to see each other.
Most recently for me in going through one of the hardest times in my life with my wife being diagnosed with cancer and starting her fight I felt I needed an outlet just to let loose my thoughts and feelings and fears and everything. I turned to here. My thing was just to get it out and I underestimated the amount of support I would get from it. Tons of responses in the thread but a silly amount of private messages offering not just the emotional support of being a good friend but things from wanting to send money to tapping into their resources of people they know to get help with the cancer to 'anything you need'. The support I have got from here has been a true and real help.
There is something special about this place for us OG's. That is why we are still around I think,
Chadstroma
Footballguy
I did lose my low number (but for the life of me can't remember what that number was) but I was a 3 digitity. Now, I have to mingle with the masses. It still hurts.
Oh yes. The gnashings of teeth all sort of blur together but I definitely remember that one.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Beef Ravioli Part 2
Footballguy
Started fantasy football in 2004 but did not get very serious about it. I began lurking here occasionally in 2005 and 06 and joined in 2007. The first time I posted, I got reprimanded for posting my question in the wrong forum.
I lost access to my original Beef Ravioli sometime back when the site had some type of update. Tried to reset my password but the site said it didn’t recognize any of my emails. I reluctantly started over.
The only person I’ve met in real life is @pollardsvision. When I moved to NOVA in the summer of 19, I drove two hours to his hot dog restaurant. When he walked by me, I asked if he was pollard and he got a big grin. He asked who I was and I said Beef Ravioli. We never asked for real names. We didn’t need to. It was a moment.
I check the FFA daily.
Who was the poster that posted a foot race with one of his office mates? That gave me a good laugh! I believe one of them was smoking right before the sprint.
I lost access to my original Beef Ravioli sometime back when the site had some type of update. Tried to reset my password but the site said it didn’t recognize any of my emails. I reluctantly started over.
The only person I’ve met in real life is @pollardsvision. When I moved to NOVA in the summer of 19, I drove two hours to his hot dog restaurant. When he walked by me, I asked if he was pollard and he got a big grin. He asked who I was and I said Beef Ravioli. We never asked for real names. We didn’t need to. It was a moment.
I check the FFA daily.
Who was the poster that posted a foot race with one of his office mates? That gave me a good laugh! I believe one of them was smoking right before the sprint.
Judge Smails
Footballguy
We have a group do a Del Mar weekend every year. Hope to do it again. Usually in August. Beer on meI couldn't even entice him to go to Del Mar on opening day. He never even replied.jacket will be missed.
Judge Smails
Footballguy
I’ll be in Nashville April 14-17 if anybody is around. 6 or 7 couples coming to town for a concert + food and Broadway debauchery. Beer on me.
The Z Machine
Footballguy
USA beating ELS by only 1 goal?
PIK95
Footballguy
I dvr'd it. Thanks Francis.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
I totally played this out in my head like it was an episode of the office or parks and rec
SWC
Bromigo
faust is like the a robot from the planet awesometron who just posts so much info in the shark pool that it should probably be named after him take that to the bank bromigos
The Z Machine
Footballguy
Sorry bud. Let me help you out more. The USA players got rugby tackled a lot and looked like crap in the first half. Then they woke up after some subs and there were some decent shots. ELS doesn't really have any players worth a damn.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
The Commish
Footballguy
If I remember correctly, this was in rebuttal to LHUCKS' nonsense about being a quality poster that everyone looks up to....after all, look at my profile views.
Keerock
Footballguy
LHUCKS
PIK95
Footballguy
I remember having double digit number on FFT, like #27 or something. I joined FBG in like 2000ish? and was here for the reset in 2003? I had alot of fun with Finless in the DM's, and I will never be remembered as the guy who solved the mystery of Stoner Claus. Dudes in here said they would have shot him, lol. As someone who drunk passed out in the wrong room, I knew. Then he became a poster for a short time. That was cool.
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STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Wait, that was all real?!?!? I remember all of it but I always figured it was made up.
JAA
Footballguy
JAA
Footballguy
What I remember was some schtick about who had the most profile views. I was going to win and was going to cheat the system doing it.
Was it Zippy? I do remember he was a post count snob
JAA
Footballguy
Im sure. youre right. I dont remember why I thought it was blue. I think I just continued to do it from the olden days.
PIK95
Footballguy
I thought it was real. The way it played out. Too well done to be fake. The guy coming in later and posting could have been fake I guess. But the initial incident had to be real.
in every post I made for years. Started on FFT. When the Latin pmp incident happened and they got a new bored, they added back the old :angry back just for me. I wonder if it's still there...
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
JAA
Footballguy
Gmail doesnt forget
Speaking of Gmail - I have my original gmail with my original name. So like one of the first set of gmail email accounts. Well, apparently my name IRL is now relatively common. So all these ****ers with my name use it as a signup to receive email notifications. I get so much ridiculous spam, dating sites, social media, password resets ... its really ridiculous.
BWIH
JAA
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