This was a pretty low scoring
week all around, so after a few “What the flip!?” “Dag gummit!” and the
priceless, “I hate fantasy football” Week five is in the books…
This week’s rave goes out to
Wilfred “Bill” Winkenbach. Who is this man, you ask? Good ol’ Billy, here is
the founding father and inventor of fantasy football.
Did you know the first league
came into existence back in 1962??? This means… (Wait for it) this is the 50th
year of our beloved game, Fantasy Football. Fifty! When it was first set up,
scoring only counted touchdowns and it was all done on paper. That means we
would have had to rely on Dan and Maucus to do all the math for us (somehow I
think they’d both always end up winning it all). What was the rationale behind
it all? Wink’s (as I and his friends call him) favorite team was the Raiders
who (surprise) sucked…but with fantasy football, there was a reason to enjoy
the game of football, anyway!
I later discovered there’s a
league this year that’s in its 34th season. (And I thought seven
years was a long time…) That’s crazy… now fantasy football didn’t switch to
internet scoring till 1997, but many leagues still follow the original rules
(and some still do it on paper). Today over 19 million people compete in public
and private leagues online nationally!
I propose once a year (during the
ff season) that we have an official, “Willy Winkenbach Day!”
Rant of the Week
Nothing I’m pissed about this week,
boys! Enjoy your weeks and see you on the waivers!
I’m out like the ball Sproles
didn’t catch that would have cost me the game…
HB2K
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