Some of you here may never have played Fantasy Football before the internet. You should get a kick out of this.
When I first started playing, almost NO one had a personal computer - and you played with guys you worked with, or that lived down the street, for reasons that will become obvious.
A typical week was like this:
Tuesdays were typically drop and add day. The commissioner had to call, that's right, call on the telephone, every owner in the league, (twice!), to see if they wanted to pick up any players for their roster. You got 2 each week, cost: 50 cents each. Took about all day - when the boss wasn't looking!
Thursdays you turned in your weekly starting line-up to the commish. That's right. On an actual piece of paper, LOL. Or by phone.
Fridays, the commish would type up a complete weekly league report, usually 3-4 pages long, showing league standings, results, line-ups, transactions, etc., xerox copies, staple 'em, and hand deliver one to each owner.
Mondays (and Tuesday mornings with MNF) were stats day.
You calculated your points, by hand, with a calculator, using the USAToday, or a local paper's, sports page.
Then you called your opponent to verify the scores and notified the commish.
It all seems funny now.
It was a tremendous amount of work for everyone - but especially for the commish. But in a lot of ways I miss it.
EVERY league was a $ league. NO one was crazy enough to do all that "just for the fun of it". LOL.
Entry fees were $50 to $100. Plus transaction fees. League "pots" were generally between $600 and $1200 so believe me, everyone was a serious player.
And the $ came in real handy as the payout was usually just before Christmas.
Wease, our costs were lower, but our first season was just like that, only I allowed roster changes up until game time Sunday. So Sunday morning my phone was usually ringing off the hook.
Oh, and I did all the points for the league, and if owners were smart, they'd double check me...
Just thinking about it now makes me all nostalgic and tired at the same time
You see how the old guy completely over looked SUNDAY !!
Of course back then there were no TV's so you had to have someone attend each game and they all got to the various games driving in one of those cars made from rock with wooden wheels (flinstones style).
Just kidding gramps
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Homeless wrote:You see how the old guy completely over looked SUNDAY !!
Of course back then there were no TV's so you had to have someone attend each game and they all got to the various games driving in one of those cars made from rock with wooden wheels (flinstones style).
I will be enetering my 11th season and can remember the days of grabbing a newspaper on Monday A.M.,then doing my stats on lunch break,sometimes earlier when I just couldn't wait...the latter was usually the case.I will continue to do my stats via the pen & paper although I now get them off of the internet.
Guttpuppy wrote:I will be enetering my 11th season and can remember the days of grabbing a newspaper on Monday A.M.
Right. You had to wait for the pterodactyl to deliver the Monday morning paper and the reason Sunday wasn't mentioned and a point missed by certain Pepsi Generation young whipper snappers with no respect for their elders.
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LMAO.
Last edited by ScreamingWeasel on Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Poobah wrote:Wease, our costs were lower, but our first season was just like that, only I allowed roster changes up until game time Sunday. So Sunday morning my phone was usually ringing off the hook.
Oh, and I did all the points for the league, and if owners were smart, they'd double check me...
WOW! Even I wasn't that crazy.
I wasn't having my Sunday mornings all telephoned up and NO way was I doing ALL the stats.
Holy Moley.
You were one hell of a nice-guy commish!
Salute!
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by ScreamingWeasel » Tue Jun 03, 2003 5:37 am 
. Glad those days are over, but they were fun!
Just kidding gramps 
