Home League Show - Ep.1 - Make Your Fantasy Football League Better Than Ever!

The Audible

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Football, Sports, Fantasy Sports

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Episode 1 of the Footballguys Home League Show—your new weekly home for everything that makes fantasy football leagues truly special. This show is built for the players, commissioners, content creators, and home-league diehards who believe fantasy football is more than a game… it's a community, a tradition, and a shared story that grows richer every season.

Hosted by Kevin Murray (author of The Commissioner's Playbook) and Joey Wright (Footballguys Community Ambassador), Episode 1 introduces the why behind the show and lays the foundation for what's to come. Kevin and Joey share their passion for home-league culture, discuss the roots of fantasy football, and explain how the spirit of home leagues has shaped the entire fantasy football world.

In this episode, you'll learn:
• What the Home League Show is all about How the show will help commissioners and league members elevate their league experience—from draft day to playoffs and everything in between.
• Why home leagues matter The rivalries, traditions, inside jokes, and friendships that make local, long-running, and family-founded leagues the true backbone of fantasy football.
• Kevin and Joey's personal league stories How their home-league experiences shaped the way they think about fantasy culture, engagement, and commissioner leadership.
• The mission of the show To educate, inspire, and entertain the entire fantasy football community while offering real, actionable advice for improving your league.
• What you can expect every week Commissioner advice, engagement strategies, listener spotlights, draft-day inspiration, playoff ideas, league awards, last-place punishments, league history, and highlights from the broader fantasy football universe.

Whether you're a longtime commissioner, a new league organizer, or a passionate fantasy football player looking to strengthen your league's culture, this show will give you tools, insights, and ideas to make your league more competitive, more connected, and more memorable.

Fantasy football isn't just about lineups and scores. It's about people. It's about connection. It's about legacy.

This is the heart of the game. This is the Footballguys Home League Show.

Links & Resources:
Footballguys Website https://www.footballguys.com
The Commissioner's Playbook (by Kevin Murray) https://amzn.to/4nT7AvC
The Audible https://www.footballguys.com/podcasts/show/theaudible
The FBG Fantasy Football Show https://www.footballguys.com/podcasts/show/fbgffshow
The FBG Dynasty Show https://www.footballguys.com/podcasts/show/dynastyshow

Connect With the Show YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FootballguysHomeLeagueShow Share your thoughts and experiences with us! [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the home league show where we celebrate the foundation of fantasy football, the home league experience, and all the fun this great game offers.
0:08.6	Fantasy football isn't just about winning championships. It's about connection, creativity, and the stories that bring your league to life.
0:17.0	If I could be talking to anyone about bringing a league to life, I am very fortunate that I get to do this show with Kevin Murray. Kevin. Why are home league so important to you?
0:28.0	Well, for me, like personally, the experience is, you know, my home league is is my friends and family that I've, you know, done life with for, for as long as I can remember, right?
0:38.3	My home league is people from elementary school, junior high, high school, college, and family
0:43.2	members, right? So the ability to stay connected, you know, and play this game together,
0:50.0	but, you know, be in each other's lives because of this great game is really why I love fantasy
0:55.1	so much and why I think the home league is so, so important. Yeah, I mean, I think back to like my
1:02.2	first home league draft with like there was like, I think it was like an eight man league at a
1:07.4	miller's ale house, which is like a sports bar, and just us sitting around a table.
1:29.1	And those eight people, you know, we look at it now. We have our holiday party. There's like 30 of us with all the kids that it's expanded to. And we've expanded to a 12-team league and stuff. But, yeah, I mean, it's like a connective tissue that has just kept us all together is our golden gnome fantasy football league. So, yeah, I love it. I rivalry every draft day experience you know all the inside jokes i mean that's what that's what makes like
1:34.0	the real magic of fantasy fantasies it can be a cruel game right like you could you can have a great
1:40.0	team you can have a terrible schedule where your opponents are scoring high points every week you can you
1:45.4	could you can like my home team right now i mean i got so many injuries my team has been decimated
1:51.3	am i still having fun i'm still having fun because of the group of the people you know in that home league
1:58.0	yeah i've got some i've got some turds can i say turd yeah we say that on the very first episode yeah i've got some turds. Can I say turd?
2:01.7	Yeah. We say that on the very first episode. Yeah, I've got some turds this year. But like the people that are in the leagues is what keeps me in there.
2:08.4	I'm not bailing on any of them. I'm definitely staying for, you know, for all the grits and glory. So yeah, having a good time this year.
2:15.9	Cool. Yeah. I mean, again, I think that the fantasy home league experience really is, you know,
2:22.6	it's that connection, right?
2:24.1	So we want to, you know, with this show, we want to offer a place for people to get inspired,
2:28.7	you know, to figure out ways to elevate their league experience.
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