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Footballguy
I'm trying to test the theory of how much the internet caused the hobby to explode.
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What was your first season of FF? (1 Viewer)
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WampusCat43
Footballguy
1989, Houston, Texas. All of us noobs. First five picks, I #### you not: Kicker, kicker, kicker, Troy Aikman, Deion Sanders. 
Played it while I was in San Francisco right out of college for two years and then took a five year hiatus and picked it up in 98 with some co-workers and haven't stopped since. Be interesting to see how many do high stakes now. Started 2 years ago and have been increasing investment amount each year.
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Footballguy
It's probably be worth having companion polls on the age or setting (work, school, other) that people started into FF in. The poll results here so far are interesting, though.
Sweet Love
IBL Representative
Started in '97 with a group of guys from work. I was out to lunch (randomly) with a bunch of them and they needed an 8th to get off the ground, so I agreed. Have been an addict ever since. I know Al Gore invented the internet prior to '97, but for the first year, we still did manual scoring and data was not so easy to come by. I had my trusty FFI mag and picked Jeff Blake with the 8th overall pick...somehow I got lucky and managed to go to the title game that year.
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Footballguy
I'm sort of impressed by the # of vets here. I wonder if that is a FBG thing, though.
Seems like too much of the FF stuff out there is catering to those familiar with the last 10 years of FF. (e.g. the ESPN "Fantasy Hall of Fame")
Seems like too much of the FF stuff out there is catering to those familiar with the last 10 years of FF. (e.g. the ESPN "Fantasy Hall of Fame")
Hipster Doofus
Footballguy
I started in '91 with 7 others. Oh how I HATED getting stats from the USA Today!!!
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IM666
Footballguy
I never really followed football; I watched a few Super Bowls that was it. A friend was looking for people to be in his XFL Fantasy Football League (yes the XFL had fantasy football believe it or not) and I was brought in. He thought I did well enough to warrant a spot in his NFL league.
I had forgotten about USA Today. I'm now going to have nightmares again...
crowe1130
Footballguy
1992. None of us knew what we were doing. Lots of kickers taken early. I won the league that year with a bad-### receiving crew: Andre Rison, Sterling Sharpe, and Anthony Miller.
Edit to Add: I had blocked USA Today boxscores out of my conscious mind. Forgot about the pencil and calculator!
Edit to Add: I had blocked USA Today boxscores out of my conscious mind. Forgot about the pencil and calculator!
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Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
1988. Me and a buddy played in a 2 man, head to head league.
Lindy's magazine was my source of information for the upcoming season.
Lindy's magazine was my source of information for the upcoming season.
Hipster Doofus
Footballguy
Second place...right?
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1988 or 89 as we were finishing college. my buddy had been playing with some stuff since 1981.
We hand scored the games until the late 90s from the Washington Post I am guessing. All that time, never had a week where we both agreed on every game.
Thank god for the Internet...
We hand scored the games until the late 90s from the Washington Post I am guessing. All that time, never had a week where we both agreed on every game.
Thank god for the Internet...
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Second place...right?
Didn't help that he always seemed to end up with Montana (or Young) and Jerry Rice. 
mad sweeney
Footballguy
I was working for the NBC station in San Diego that year and joined the work league there. We had access to various news sources via the news servers but nothing like today obviously. We could get the game breakdowns Sunday night though for our scores instead of waiting for the paper in the morning. Plus I got to watch all the AFC games (when NBC still had them) in the tape room on 4" monitors. I came in 4th, I believe it was a good year for Herman Moore and Scott Mitchell..
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Footballguy
The stats here so far suggest that a little over 60% of FBGs started playing FF in the "pre-internet" era (pre-1997). I always think of 1997 as the watershed year in this respect. Yahoo FF premiered in 1998, but as I recall, the first year in which nfl.com facilitated live scoring and availability of statistics was 1997.
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