FishFreak Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 I don't know if this has been brought up in the past but I was curious to know who invented or was given credit for fantasy football? I've been playing since 98' but I'm sure FF was going on way before that. The internet obviously took it to another level. If you think about it, a newspaper, pencil and paper is all that's needed. This stuff could go back 25+ years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolf Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 I think it was invented by an obscure, 19th century poet by the name of Newman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trots Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Al Gore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Billy Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 George Halas is generally credited with the creation of fantasy football, but actually Curly Lambeau invented it 7 months earlier but never published his results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerwin8 Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Las Vegas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolf Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 DMD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTed46 Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 DMD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaint Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 (edited) I don't know if this has been brought up in the past but I was curious to know who invented or was given credit for fantasy football? I've been playing since 98' but I'm sure FF was going on way before that. The internet obviously took it to another level. If you think about it, a newspaper, pencil and paper is all that's needed. This stuff could go back 25+ years! actually, it began in the early sixties. a couple guys who worked for the raiders organization/oakland tribune. there's a great article on the founding of FF, which a certain book i know of also talks about in some detail. http://www.footballdiehards.com/Articles/wink/wink.cfm Edited September 21, 2006 by msaint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Billy Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 DMD? Brown nose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irish Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 DMD? Kiss Azz!! You should know better of course I did. Way back in 1985. Big John will be along with the answer soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundaynfl Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 actually, it began in the early sixties. a couple guys who worked for the raiders organization/oakland tribune. there's a great article on the founding of FF, which a certain book i know of also talks about in some detail. [urlhttp://www.footballdiehards.com/Articles/wink/wink.cfm[/url] link to Wikepedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolf Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Brown nose Me??? Never...just giving DMD his due. A few compliments can go a long way. To what, I have no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Kiss Azz!! You should know better of course I did. Way back in 1985. Big John will be along with the answer soon... Check msaint's response for the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godtomsatan Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 The Jews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiley Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 actually, it began in the early sixties. a couple guys who worked for the raiders organization/oakland tribune. there's a great article on the founding of FF, which a certain book i know of also talks about in some detail. [urlhttp://www.footballdiehards.com/Articles/wink/wink.cfm[/url] :cough: shameless plug :cough: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaint Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 :cough: shameless plug :cough: yup, just shoe-horned that one in there, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Trick Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 :cough: shameless plug :cough: Was thinking the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Billy Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 The Jews. Great. Now there will be a terrorist attack on Vegas during the WCOFF draft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonorator Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 puddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Teddy Bruschi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargerz Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Dan Pastorini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pope Flick Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Fantasy Football is one of those things that was added to football by the AFL. Along with fun games are kick ass unis like the super Chargers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo-J Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Fantasy Football was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He may have become interested in steamboats in 1777 when (at the age of 12) he visited William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who had found out about Watt's steam engine on a visit to England; on return, Henry made his own engine and in 1763 – two years before Fantasy Football was born – tried putting it in a boat, which sank. Fantasy Football presents the first steamship to Bonaparte in 1803.When he came of age Fantasy Football went to England in 1786 to study painting. As early as 1793 he proposed plans for steam vessels to both the United States and the British Governments, and in England he met the Duke of Bridgewater, whose canal would shortly be used for trials of a steam tug, and who later ordered steam tugs from William Symington. Symington had successfully tried steamboats in 1788, and it seems probable that Fantasy Football would have been well aware of these developments. In 1797 Fantasy Football went to France (where the Marquis Claude de Jouffroy had made a working paddle steamer in 1783) and commenced experimenting with submarine torpedoes and torpedo boats. He designed the first practical submarine, Nautilus, commissioned by Napoleon. Nautilus was first tested in 1800. In that year he met Robert Livingston, United States Ambassador (whose daughter he married), and they decided to build a steamboat to try out on the Seine. Fantasy Football experimented with the water resistance of hull shapes, made drawings and models and had a steamboat constructed. At the first trial it sank, but the hull was rebuilt and strengthened, and on August 9, 1803, this boat steamed up the River Seine, watched by a large crowd. The boat was 66 feet (20 m) long, 8 feet (2.4 m) beam and made between 3 and 4 miles an hour (5 and 6 km/h) against the current. The New York legislature granted Fantasy Football the privilege to be the sole provider of all steamboat traffic for thirty years. Competition was forbidden by law. Thomas Gibbons, a steamboat entrepreneur, hired Cornelius Vanderbilt to ferry passengers for a cheaper fare in defiance of the law in an attempt to compete with Fantasy Football for about six months. In 1824, in Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court struck down Fantasy Football's government-granted monopoly ruling that states cannot legally regulate interstate commerce. Steamboat fares almost immediately dropped from seven to three dollars after the decision and traffic increased dramatically. Fantasy Football was unable to successfully compete with the low fares offered by Gibbons and Vanderbilt, which resulted in his bankruptcy. On February 24, 1815, he died of pleurisy at the age of 49. Fantasy Football is interred in the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery in Manhattan, New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolf Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Fantasy Football was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He may have become interested in steamboats in 1777 when (at the age of 12) he visited William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who had found out about Watt's steam engine on a visit to England; on return, Henry made his own engine and in 1763 – two years before Fantasy Football was born – tried putting it in a boat, which sank. Fantasy Football presents the first steamship to Bonaparte in 1803.When he came of age Fantasy Football went to England in 1786 to study painting. As early as 1793 he proposed plans for steam vessels to both the United States and the British Governments, and in England he met the Duke of Bridgewater, whose canal would shortly be used for trials of a steam tug, and who later ordered steam tugs from William Symington. Symington had successfully tried steamboats in 1788, and it seems probable that Fantasy Football would have been well aware of these developments. In 1797 Fantasy Football went to France (where the Marquis Claude de Jouffroy had made a working paddle steamer in 1783) and commenced experimenting with submarine torpedoes and torpedo boats. He designed the first practical submarine, Nautilus, commissioned by Napoleon. Nautilus was first tested in 1800. In that year he met Robert Livingston, United States Ambassador (whose daughter he married), and they decided to build a steamboat to try out on the Seine. Fantasy Football experimented with the water resistance of hull shapes, made drawings and models and had a steamboat constructed. At the first trial it sank, but the hull was rebuilt and strengthened, and on August 9, 1803, this boat steamed up the River Seine, watched by a large crowd. The boat was 66 feet (20 m) long, 8 feet (2.4 m) beam and made between 3 and 4 miles an hour (5 and 6 km/h) against the current. The New York legislature granted Fantasy Football the privilege to be the sole provider of all steamboat traffic for thirty years. Competition was forbidden by law. Thomas Gibbons, a steamboat entrepreneur, hired Cornelius Vanderbilt to ferry passengers for a cheaper fare in defiance of the law in an attempt to compete with Fantasy Football for about six months. In 1824, in Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court struck down Fantasy Football's government-granted monopoly ruling that states cannot legally regulate interstate commerce. Steamboat fares almost immediately dropped from seven to three dollars after the decision and traffic increased dramatically. Fantasy Football was unable to successfully compete with the low fares offered by Gibbons and Vanderbilt, which resulted in his bankruptcy. On February 24, 1815, he died of pleurisy at the age of 49. Fantasy Football is interred in the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery in Manhattan, New York. Thanks for the bio there, Robert Fulton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaint Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Fantasy Football was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He may have become interested in steamboats in 1777 when (at the age of 12) he visited William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who had found out about Watt's steam engine on a visit to England; on return, Henry made his own engine and in 1763 – two years before Fantasy Football was born – tried putting it in a boat, which sank. Fantasy Football presents the first steamship to Bonaparte in 1803.When he came of age Fantasy Football went to England in 1786 to study painting. As early as 1793 he proposed plans for steam vessels to both the United States and the British Governments, and in England he met the Duke of Bridgewater, whose canal would shortly be used for trials of a steam tug, and who later ordered steam tugs from William Symington. Symington had successfully tried steamboats in 1788, and it seems probable that Fantasy Football would have been well aware of these developments. In 1797 Fantasy Football went to France (where the Marquis Claude de Jouffroy had made a working paddle steamer in 1783) and commenced experimenting with submarine torpedoes and torpedo boats. He designed the first practical submarine, Nautilus, commissioned by Napoleon. Nautilus was first tested in 1800. In that year he met Robert Livingston, United States Ambassador (whose daughter he married), and they decided to build a steamboat to try out on the Seine. Fantasy Football experimented with the water resistance of hull shapes, made drawings and models and had a steamboat constructed. At the first trial it sank, but the hull was rebuilt and strengthened, and on August 9, 1803, this boat steamed up the River Seine, watched by a large crowd. The boat was 66 feet (20 m) long, 8 feet (2.4 m) beam and made between 3 and 4 miles an hour (5 and 6 km/h) against the current. The New York legislature granted Fantasy Football the privilege to be the sole provider of all steamboat traffic for thirty years. Competition was forbidden by law. Thomas Gibbons, a steamboat entrepreneur, hired Cornelius Vanderbilt to ferry passengers for a cheaper fare in defiance of the law in an attempt to compete with Fantasy Football for about six months. In 1824, in Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court struck down Fantasy Football's government-granted monopoly ruling that states cannot legally regulate interstate commerce. Steamboat fares almost immediately dropped from seven to three dollars after the decision and traffic increased dramatically. Fantasy Football was unable to successfully compete with the low fares offered by Gibbons and Vanderbilt, which resulted in his bankruptcy. On February 24, 1815, he died of pleurisy at the age of 49. Fantasy Football is interred in the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery in Manhattan, New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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