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Have you been posting here for longer than a decade? (3 Viewers)

Have you been posting here for longer than a decade?

  • Yes

    Votes: 367 92.7%

  • No

    Votes: 25 6.3%

  • Smoo has

    Votes: 4 1.0%
  • Total voters
    396
top dog said:
Been here a long ####### time.  Remember ol Yeller... Lost of folks who have come and gone.. I've not always been a regular poster but I've always been here.  I remember Shuke sending me an old macintosh part for my wife's grandfather's PC a million years ago.  My kids football photo of him covered in mud was in one of Joe's Random shots.  He was about 8 at the time.  He's 22 now and is a member of the National Guard and getting married next year.  

Big fan of this community.
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SUPERLIKE.

 
shuke said:
Did Air Conditioner ever tap that chick with the moustache?
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Longtime lurker but thats the first thread I remember reading here. I don't think he went through with it because of said stache but that was an eaon ago.  Was a FFtoday guy back when torridjoe was ranting about politics. 

 
I signed up 1 day before my wedding.  Every now and again when my wife gives me #### for posting I tell her I've been committed to FBG longer than you.

she doesn't think it's very funny.

 
Cheatsheets. I don't think I wandered into the forums at first, then the SP, then here. The earliest FFA thread I can remember was titled something like "How do blind people know when they're done wiping?". And that about sums this place up

 
wikkidpissah said:
2007. Fanball guy until the Gang of Four strike against their sell-up moves. Been a one-forum guy - i'd like to be like a three-forum guy, but my style means there'll be fights on the way to the status i need to relax and express and, like a good Irishman, i believe the only good part of a fight is the end - my entire online caree
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I was trying to remember what that Fanball flight was about.

 
Been posting since 2005, lurking since 2004.  This place has really gone downhill.  Not so much the FFA, but the people.

 
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I remember clearly the first time I posted here my daughter was entering kindergarten.   She is currently working on her college applications now.

 
12 years.  Wow.  I remember the golden years, when this place was in its prime with Sheik, Mojo, and ClownCausedChaos

 
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Joined my freshman year of college, had only really been a part of Internet communities since the year before that. I think this was like the third forum I joined, but it's the one I've stuck with the longest.

 
The Ref said:
I signed up 1 day before my wedding.  Every now and again when my wife gives me #### for posting I tell her I've been committed to FBG longer than you.

she doesn't think it's very funny.
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My wife was 14 when I started here. :oldunsure:

 
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Been mainly lurking around, rarely posting since cheatsheets. Was 2Close2Hate there. Remember being on the night this guy with the more straightforward username of 'Jason Wood' was posting a bunch shark level fanasy info on WR performance, etc and Joe contacting him mid-thread about a gig. 

Wasn't on for 9/11 but could not break away from the Boston bomber chase/shootout/subsequent search thread as it went down.

 
MrFootball.com - Because losing sucks

Still have my old blue t-shirt somewhere. Never missed reading Tony Holm's Prognosticator. Still remember reading "always start your Colts" line and laughing.

 
El Floppo said:
I was trying to remember what that Fanball flight was about.
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Mgmt tried to intimidate some members from criticizing the product at a time they were trying to sell up. Well, one of those guys (Jimed) had been turned around to Iraq @ age 42 and was routing the supply convoys from Kuwait to Baghdad that kept getting blown up, so you can imagine how intimidated he was by computer nerds in Minnesota. He did page captures of all these PMs and released them, they banned some guys and we all quit Fanball in support. If i had 14 cents, i'd buy that domain now.

 
When these threads pop up from time to time makes me go back and find my first post on rec.sport.football.fantasy (RSFF) from 1995. Post about Joey Galloway being a potential rookie of the year. It was a series of posts there that grabbed Joe's eye and led him to invite me to join his team. I think it was a series of posts correlating draft position to fantasy production. 

 
wikkidpissah said:
Mgmt tried to intimidate some members from criticizing the product at a time they were trying to sell up. Well, one of those guys (Jimed) had been turned around to Iraq @ age 42 and was routing the supply convoys from Kuwait to Baghdad that kept getting blown up, so you can imagine how intimidated he was by computer nerds in Minnesota. He did page captures of all these PMs and released them, they banned some guys and we all quit Fanball in support. If i had 14 cents, i'd buy that domain now.
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Fanball and The Huddle.   I really enjoyed reading The Huddles late week summaries though.  Maybe it's still around? No idea.  

Fantasy Football is probably the single biggest driver in my early tech upgrades... I was generally ahead of the tech curve anyway as I got some awesome toys from work in the late '90s and 2000's, which I then recognized gave me an advantage for fantasy.  Access to the Net when not tethered to a computer, text alerts and mobile surfing / information / email alerts.   

Motorola T-900 - still perhaps my favorite 'ahead of its time' device. I basically had email access anywhere years before others did 

Sony VAIO super light laptop circa 1998-1999

HP Pocket PC - This was a HUGE advantage.  For FFA drafts especially as I now had spreadsheets and a mini computer wherever I went. Forgot how I accessed the web to be honest... early on maybe only when tethered?  While everyone was still walking around with Palm Pilots I was way ahead of them.

 
Hooper31 said:
When these threads pop up from time to time makes me go back and find my first post on rec.sport.football.fantasy (RSFF) from 1995. Post about Joey Galloway being a potential rookie of the year. It was a series of posts there that grabbed Joe's eye and led him to invite me to join his team. I think it was a series of posts correlating draft position to fantasy production. 
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I heard if you use FBG's rankings there is none.

:banned:

 
boots11234 said:
Was there even the internets back then??
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Speaking of early innernets...

Around 1993 or 1994, my friend wanted to show me something on his control station at the computer lab. He was one of the geeks (amongst nerds, mind you) who helped run the lab for clueless idiots like me for whom the greatest thing a computer could do was play risk.  In black and white. 

Now, remember, NO one in the dorms had any network access. My computer could speak with the mouse and my printer and keyboard. That's it.  For the few on BBS boards and the like had to go to the lab. Generally, though, the lab had better computers than our black and white Macs including things like color and better printers and all. 

Ok, to the story:

My friend is like, dude, I gotta show you something.  So I go. What does he show me? Playboy.com  Now also remember, "pron" was not what it is today. Electric Blue on Cable was pretty racy stuff, we had not yet been numbed to all but the most extreme of concepts.  So seeing boobs (and more!) on a computer was actually pretty amazing.

I was unimpressed.  Told him this was the most stupid idea I'd ever heard of.  Who the heck is going to watch porn on their computers... thinking of course that the only place to get internet access was at the computer lab and am I supposed to rub one with a bunch of nerds doing their thesis papers around me?

Boy, did I miss that one. 

 
Been on the board since maybe 2003. Still feel like like a noob most days. 

 
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Hooper31 said:
Nazis, man. Nazis...
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I recall a rash of somewhat "random" bannings and time outs like 10 years back.  Do we still have signatures? I believe the last time I changed mine was done around one of them purges.  Personally, I think it's been over 10 years since I had sigs turned on. :coffee:  

ps: Still no idea wtf these 3 warning points are. 

 
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roadkill1292 said:
Peak Smoo was this board's Golden Age.
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It was probably Peak FFA, but didn't last very long. Very shortly he descended into joining music drafts. He did choose "Pac Man Fever" in a 1st round, though, IIRC.

 
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