The Ridiculous History of Fantasy Sports, Part One
Ridiculous History
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
To outsiders, fantasy sports and fantasy leagues may sound like a bizarre proposition: you get together with a bunch of friends and leverage statistics to predict outcomes in your favorite sports, but it's not... gambling? In the first part of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore the origins of fantasy leagues, and how they grew into a billion-dollar industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show fellow ridiculous historians. |
| 0:29.5 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.5 | There's the man, the myth, legend, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, yep, yeah. |
| 0:38.7 | Holding up a champion belt for fantasy football, Noel, that's a little bit of foreshadowing. |
| 0:46.5 | That's Noel Brown. |
| 0:47.7 | I am Ben Bowling. |
| 0:49.0 | Tis I. |
| 0:49.6 | This week, we are diving into something that's going to be very familiar and very awesome for a lot of us in the crowd and then very new information for many other folks, including your faithful correspondence. |
| 1:06.2 | You talking about sports, man? |
| 1:07.7 | Talking about sports. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, I got a fantasy about it. |
| 1:10.8 | Oh, yeah. Darling the sports. Yeah, I got a fantasy about it. Oh, yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | Same. |
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