whomper Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Ellen123s spam thread got me thinking. I posted in the main football forum for probably a few years until I even looked at the tailgate. When I originally came here it was strictly for football content. Probably 18 months-2 years after coming here I was just bouncing around and checked out the tailgate and havent had a productive days work since. When did you find this place ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddy Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Ellen123s spam thread got me thinking. I posted in the main football forum for probably a few years until I even looked at the tailgate. When I originally came here it was strictly for football content. Probably 18 months-2 years after coming here I was just bouncing around and checked out the tailgate and havent had a productive days work since. When did you find this place ? And you want to be my latex salesman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whomper Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 And you want to be my latex salesman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddy Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Pretty much the same story for me. I had like 400 posts total in the first 3 years or so and I'd be willing to bet 399 of them were in the main forum. I then ventured off into the other sports forum to argue with Captain Hook for 4 hours about the brawl at the Palace. Then I showed up everywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yo mama Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 It was during the off season of my second year here, I believe. Back then Loaf used to post links to fun games, and the political intercourse was steamy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 When I first got here, there was more non-sports banter in the Pro Football forum. I remember someone had a link in their sig trying to drive more traffic to the Tailgate, and with an increase in volume of posts... all of the conversational topics started moving here. I've always been chatty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 (edited) A few months in my first year. The boards weren't working properly on a Sunday morning during Football season with the Pro Football and Advice forums being down, but The Tailgate was working.That is where I found a lot of doozies and someone asking a football question there because the advice forum was down was getting schallacked. Edited March 4, 2008 by Big John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 There's football forums here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffeeman Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 (edited) About a year in for me. I agree, its more addicting than the others, although I haunt the College board quite a bit too. I notice I'm the only non 'All Pro' commenting so far. Some day, I hope to be as kewl as you guys..... Edited March 4, 2008 by Coffeeman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Well, when I started there wasn't a Tailgate. There was DMD talking to 12 of his aliases to make the board look busy, and then a handful of posters. But, once they set up the many different forums, I perused just about all of them. Used to post a lot in the main forum when I was in college and could actually be first to contribute a newsworthy item or get involved in a thread before it had been hashed to no end, so now spend most of my time in the TG, my league forums and in the advice forum between the NFL draft and the start of the season primarily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egret Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Things were pretty hazy back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 About a year in for me. I agree, its more addicting than the others, although I haunt the College board quite a bit too. I notice I'm the only non 'All Pro' commenting so far. Some day, I hope to be as kewl as you guys..... I think it is more addicting because it is the forum where everyone's individual identities come out more. Football is the common theme that got us all here and is the focus of the other forums, but here is where people talk about the other stuff and can relate with others with similar interests, etc. And, a few years ago when the political debates and other debates of "controversial" subjects remained a bit more civil and did not always devolve into flame wars, there was a much greater opportunity for people to develop bonds. That and the pr0n pics helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I think it is more addicting because it is the forum where everyone's individual identities come out more. Football is the common theme that got us all here and is the focus of the other forums, but here is where people talk about the other stuff and can relate with others with similar interests, etc. And, a few years ago when the political debates and other debates of "controversial" subjects remained a bit more civil and did not always devolve into flame wars, there was a much greater opportunity for people to develop bonds. That and the pr0n pics helped. dink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShiznit Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I think I noticed the tailgate around september of 2007. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I think I noticed the tailgate around september of 2007. Late August is around September. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShiznit Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Late August is around September. How do you do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Took me a couple of years... I started in the Advice Forum, then the following year branched out to include the Main Football Forum... only after that did I start snooping around to discover the dark pit of soulless wit that is the Tailgate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHook Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 prolly a couple years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunning Runt Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 This morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 The second post of my first day. superkaratemonekydeathcar was my first engagement in the tailgate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 This morning. In the sense of Reagan's "Morning in America". Not meant to be toady as he posted in the Tailgate for a long time now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBalata Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Started in the football forums before the '99 season. Discovered the TG during the 2000 offseason when all the election "debates" were going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunning Runt Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 In the sense of Reagan's "Morning in America". Not meant to be toady as he posted in the Tailgate for a long time now. ..... and I'd have gotten away with too if not for you meddling kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargerz Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I discovered the Tailgate not long after I joined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Saw the TG as soon as I joined in '03, lurked for a little while then that right wing loony H8Idiot posted something and off I went. Thread wouldn't have lasted 5 seconds today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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