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[Fryowa]

Jamal won me a lot of money in my two fantasy football leagues in 1998. He had something like seventeen touchdowns that year and few leagues were tracked by internet sites back then, meaning that scoring touchdowns had more of a premium then than it does now.

To be fair, there were also years when my teams flamed out. Those years sucked. Nothing worse than being in a FFL in mid October and already having little or nothing to play for. Vinny Testeverde getting knocked out for the season in week 1 killed me one year.

Does anyone else remember playing fantasy football and having to go to the Monday morning newspaper to manually add up the points for each team in the league? Ugggh!

I stopped playing in 2010. My kids and family and their sports were starting to take up more and more of my time, which is how it should be anyway. They do grow up fast.

BTW, Jamal Anderson's Dirty Bird borrowed heavily from the Ickey Shuffle named adter the old Cincinnati running back Ickey Woods.

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson had, and still has, the best TD dance ever. And with the league's butt-hurt stance on excessive celebration penalties, that status is probably safe for a long time.

I’m 37 for context, but I remember my dad was in a fantasy golf league where the guy who ran it faxed the results each week. We didn’t have a fax machine so he had to go down to his buddy’s store (who was also in the league) to check it out and make his picks for the next week’s tournament.

It was enough of a pain in the ass that I’d never do it.

I think this is my last year of FF. It doesn’t really excite me much and the league I’m in is just a bunch of guys from my office so when I started working there 15 years ago it was just a social thing to do. Now it’s a hassle to remember to stay on top of my team every week and I’m not big on NFL. One of my coworker’s son just got hired and he’s a huge sports guy, my plan is to let him have my spot.

 

[Northside Hawk]

I’m 37 for context, but I remember my dad was in a fantasy golf league where the guy who ran it faxed the results each week. We didn’t have a fax machine so he had to go down to his buddy’s store (who was also in the league) to check it out and make his picks for the next week’s tournament.

It was enough of a pain in the ass that I’d never do it.

I think this is my last year of FF. It doesn’t really excite me much and the league I’m in is just a bunch of guys from my office so when I started working there 15 years ago it was just a social thing to do. Now it’s a hassle to remember to stay on top of my team every week and I’m not big on NFL. One of my coworker’s son just got hired and he’s a huge sports guy, my plan is to let him have my spot.

You just nailed every reason why I got out it. I played for fifteen years. It got to be drudgery. It was time for something else.

You're boy is probably just getting into middle school. If he likes playing sports, don't discourage it, and I know you won't. That's what's important in the end, not staying up until 11:30 on a worknight trying to see whether Devontae Adams will get enough receiving yards for me to beat "the Sexecutioners" or whoever my opponent is that week.

 

[Robowe]

Jamal won me a lot of money in my two fantasy football leagues in 1998. He had something like seventeen touchdowns that year and few leagues were tracked by internet sites back then, meaning that scoring touchdowns had more of a premium then than it does now.

To be fair, there were also years when my teams flamed out. Those years sucked. Nothing worse than being in a FFL in mid October and already having little or nothing to play for. Vinny Testeverde getting knocked out for the season in week 1 killed me one year.

Does anyone else remember playing fantasy football and having to go to the Monday morning newspaper to manually add up the points for each team in the league? Ugggh!

I stopped playing in 2010. My kids and family and their sports were starting to take up more and more of my time, which is how it should be anyway. They do grow up fast.

BTW, Jamal Anderson's Dirty Bird borrowed heavily from the Ickey Shuffle named adter the old Cincinnati running back Ickey Woods.

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson had, and still has, the best TD dance ever. And with the league's butt-hurt stance on excessive celebration penalties, that status is probably safe for a long time.

Still play fantasy football. My first memory was 1990 when my QBs were Phil Simms and Jim Kelly and both were injured in game 14 of the year (ironically, in a game against each other). Neither played the last 2 games that year and I lost after picking up Jeff Hostetler. Waiting for the newspaper on Monday to add up the score seems pre-historic.

Now, for me, you can never top Billy 'White Shoes' Johnson. Creative and innovative. However, you must not watch the NFL lately ... they have lessened their stance on TD celebrations the past couple of years. There have been some creative ones.

 

[Northside Hawk]

Still play fantasy football. My first memory was 1990 when my QBs were Phil Simms and Jim Kelly and both were injured in game 14 of the year (ironically, in a game against each other). Neither played the last 2 games that year and I lost after picking up Jeff Hostetler. Waiting for the newspaper on Monday to add up the score seems pre-historic.

Now, for me, you can never top Billy 'White Shoes' Johnson. Creative and innovative. However, you must not watch the NFL lately ... they have lessened their stance on TD celebrations the past couple of years. There have been some creative ones.

Those are all creative, but involve multiple players, not one individual. I did like Elliott, the running back from the Cowboys, jumping into the United Way box or whatever that was. That was funny.

Unreal that we once manually tracked Fantasy Football results, isn't it? You almost needed Will Hunting to figure out all the bonus yards, defensive points, etc. which is why many leagues in the 1990's stuck to TD's and basic bonus points.

Another thing that killed it for me was specialized players coming into the game in "wildcat formations" and stealing the TD's. You always had your outliers that would come in and steal goal line TD's from the Barry Sanders of the world but for couple years there it quickly spun out control and you didn't know what type of player to start.

In the end I just didn't follow it enough, keep up the waiver wire, have family dinner interrupted by a trade offer, etc. and just stopped playing.

And I haven't regretted it a single minute. Just like I never regretted playing from 1995-2008. Just gritted my teeth those last two years and got out.

EDIT:. The Elliott celebration, wasn't it a Salvation Army kettle? It was the holiday season after all.

 

[Robowe]

Those are all creative, but involve multiple players, not one individual. I did like Elliott, the running back from the Cowboys, jumping into the United Way box or whatever that was. That was funny.

Unreal that we once manually tracked Fantasy Football results, isn't it? You almost needed Will Hunting to figure out all the bonus yards, defensive points, etc. which is why many leagues in the 1990's stuck to TD's and basic bonus points.

Another thing that killed it for me was specialized players coming into the game in "wildcat formations" and stealing the TD's. You always had your outliers that would come in and steal goal line TD's from the Barry Sanders of the world but for couple years there it quickly spun out control and you didn't know what type of player to start.

In the end I just didn't follow it enough, keep up the waiver wire, have family dinner interrupted by a trade offer, etc. and just stopped playing.

And I haven't regretted it a single minute. Just like I never regretted playing from 1995-2008. Just gritted my teeth those last two years and got out.

I understand. The reason I am still in a league (this one is over 20 years old) is getting together with friends for the draft. We have a base of 7-8 guys who have been in this league since it started and it gives us a reason to get together. We get some driving in (one from Minneapolis, another from Winona, another from Milwaukee, another from Indy, and the rest from Iowa) to catch up and drink and draft.

In a concession for some of the distractions you mentioned, I co-own a team in this league for the 1st time ever. The bonus of this is I have a co-conspirator who I text with a lot as we discuss our decisions (and mistakes).

Here's a solo TD dance. I don't know what this is.

 

[Northside Hawk]

I understand. The reason I am still in a league (this one is over 20 years old) is getting together with friends for the draft. We have a base of 7-8 guys who have been in this league since it started and it gives us a reason to get together. We get some driving in (one from Minneapolis, another from Winona, another from Milwaukee, another from Indy, and the rest from Iowa) to catch up and drink and draft.

In a concession for some of the distractions you mentioned, I co-own a team in this league for the 1st time ever. The bonus of this is I have a co-conspirator who I text with a lot as we discuss our decisions (and mistakes).

Here's a solo TD dance. I don't know what this is.

Our league was spead out from Montana to Texas to Florida, which presented some logistical problems on draft night. I didn't like the idea of co-owning then but would almost certainly do it now if I ever got back in. I miss some of the old guys in the league, but also miss some of the people I played city rec softball and basketball with. I've spent most of the last decade watching my kids play high school and middle school sports which still leads to plenty of bonding opportunities with the other parents. Usually in the vicinity of adult beverages

 

[CP87]

Jamal won me a lot of money in my two fantasy football leagues in 1998. He had something like seventeen touchdowns that year and few leagues were tracked by internet sites back then, meaning that scoring touchdowns had more of a premium then than it does now.

To be fair, there were also years when my teams flamed out. Those years sucked. Nothing worse than being in a FFL in mid October and already having little or nothing to play for. Vinny Testeverde getting knocked out for the season in week 1 killed me one year.

Does anyone else remember playing fantasy football and having to go to the Monday morning newspaper to manually add up the points for each team in the league? Ugggh!

I stopped playing in 2010. My kids and family and their sports were starting to take up more and more of my time, which is how it should be anyway. They do grow up fast.

BTW, Jamal Anderson's Dirty Bird borrowed heavily from the Ickey Shuffle named adter the old Cincinnati running back Ickey Woods.

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson had, and still has, the best TD dance ever. And with the league's butt-hurt stance on excessive celebration penalties, that status is probably safe for a long time.

I won a league one year ('94), largely aided by trading my starting QB (I think it was Marino) for RB/WR help and hoping and praying my backup would be okay. The backup was Favre, but this was before he was Favre. This was tons of turnovers, never quite sure what you were going to get Favre. Even though I am a life-long Viking's fan, I have always had a soft-spot for Favre because of that FF season.

Loved this game:

Fantasy Football does weird things, man. I haven't been into it since college, but I loved it back in the day.

 

[Northside Hawk]

I won a league one year ('94), largely aided by trading my starting QB (I think it was Marino) for RB/WR help and hoping and praying my backup would be okay. The backup was Favre, but this was before he was Favre. This was tons of turnovers, never quite sure what you were going to get Favre. Even though I am a life-long Viking's fan, I have always had a soft-spot for Favre because of that FF season.

Loved this game:

Fantasy Football does weird things, man. I haven't been into it since college, but I loved it back in the day.

Farve and Sterling Sharpe were unbelieveable down the stretch that season. If you had either of them, or for heaven's sake both of them, you probably won your league that year. Sadly, Sterling would not play in 1995 or ever again. He toiled on the Farveless/Holmgrenless teams from 1989-1991 then missed the Super Bowl years. Shannon Sharpe, in a classy move, gave his first of two Bronco rings to his brother.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

I won a league one year ('94), largely aided by trading my starting QB (I think it was Marino) for RB/WR help and hoping and praying my backup would be okay. The backup was Favre, but this was before he was Favre. This was tons of turnovers, never quite sure what you were going to get Favre. Even though I am a life-long Viking's fan, I have always had a soft-spot for Favre because of that FF season.

Loved this game:

Fantasy Football does weird things, man. I haven't been into it since college, but I loved it back in the day.

Yeah, i had Favre in 1994 & 1995 in my league. Made playoffs both years, but lost in semis each time. The word was, "Pray you get Hopeful Hawkeyes during Favre's off week!"

 

[ICHawk24]

I'm not "in" to FF very much any more, but nowadays, playing is a piece of cake.

Show up, unprepared, for ESPN online draft about two days before season. It completes in an hour.

Every Tuesday, make about three moves in five minutes. Thursday-ish, set my lineup.

Little work, and it helps me stay in touch with old friends.