History Of Fantasy Football

History Is Dank

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Education, History

5.0 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A lot of people just won their leagues this week. A lot more didn't. Strider is a constituent of the latter. Leaving all emotion and hard feelings out of it, Strider shares his research on the medium of camaraderie and competition that we all love and hate some much.

Sources:

Sproutsocial.com ‘Social Media and the Rise of Fantasy Sports’ by Kayla Lee, Onthisday.com, Wikipedia.org, Inquirer.com ‘Scoring points in the first fantasy football league Circuit began in Oakland in 1963’ by Ed Barkowitz, Footballdiehards.com ‘Letterhead From The Commissioner Bill Winkenbach A NOD(and a wink) To The Founders Of Fantasy Football’ by Bob Harris and Emil Kadlec

Transcript

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0:00.0	Go for it.
0:01.0	What up, dude?
0:02.2	Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast.
0:04.8	That's mine.
0:05.3	It's going to be called History is Night.
0:08.6	History is dang with Stranger Wilson.
0:16.5	Dangness from the crowd.
0:20.5	Frigan what up, dude. Welcome back to another ep of History is Dank the past. Frigan what up, dude.
0:22.2	Welcome back to another ep of history is dank, dude.
0:25.5	I'm your host, freaking Strider Wilson.
0:27.7	What up, dude?
0:28.4	Just chilling right now, posting up.
0:30.7	We got Aaron on the sticks.
0:32.3	What up, Aaron?
0:33.2	What up?
0:34.9	Chilling, dude.
0:35.8	Just plugging in my freaking laptop right now, dude. Got the power, dude. Don't want to run out, dude, with my freaking notes, my dank research that I did for today. With our freaking dank topic, which is going to be the history of fantasy football, dude. We're going to be getting into that. Something very near and dear to my heart. Dude, sometimes you got to do, you know, it's good to be unbiased you know when looking at the past dude you don't want you know your opinions to you know
1:00.0	sway the story in one direction or the other you want to give you know a straight up informational
1:04.8	dank factual account of what went down you know um but and i'm going to do that with fantasy football, but, you know, it's going to be hard for me not to personalize. So, you know, bear with, you know, my team's struggling right now. I'm on the cusp of getting into the playoffs. It hurts. And I am a three-time reigning champ in my league with my brothers. So, you know, there's still light at the end of the tunnel, but it's fading
1:29.6	fast. But first, let's just get into a little personal history. What's going on, dude? And my
1:33.8	freaking, you know, I guess, L-I-F-E, dude. And recently, and I'm kind of ashamed, ashamed to admit this
1:41.7	right now. But I went to the freaking er uh last week aaron i went to the
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