GRIDIRON
FANTASY LEAGUE HISTORY
Our Fantasy Football
League began in 1995 by Thomas V. Murphy and Jamie Smith with the idea of
expanding our love for football to more then just watching the game. While most leagues competed with money as the
key objective, our league was built with the belief that bragging rights and
enjoying the whole experience were more rewarding. The league started with six teams: Predators (Thomas V. Murphy), Raptors (Jamie
Smith), Outlaws (Scott Murphy), Marauders (Gary Rutter), Mustangs (Rich
Campbell) and Convicts (Steven Hughes).
The league attempted
an expansion in 1996 by admitting the Fanatics (Seth Sheckard) and the
Avalanche (owner abandoned league therefore team was carried by the
league).
After struggling
through the '96 season with losing two team owners, the league restructured in
1997 by transferring the Mustangs to Da Birds (Greg McCauley) and the Avalanche
(Scott Good), making the league eight teams strong. We also lost one of our founding members as
Jamie Smith moved from the area allowing the Raptors to be taken over by George
Cox.
The league flourished
even more going into the 1998 season expanding by four teams to make a total of
twelve teams and doing a complete redraft since the '95 inaugural season. Expansion teams were Doom (John Beamsderfer),
Futbolers (Tim Bitterman), Knuckleheads (Mike Hickey), and Warriors (Curtis
Wagner). In addition to the expansion,
the Fanatics changed names to the Eliminators, Avalanche changes to
Good-E-Nufs, and the Convicts were transferred to Halas's Boys (
The 1999 season say
only minor changes with transfers for Halas's Boys to Lowriders (Doug Burkey)
and Doom (Greg Huffman). This was also
the first year we introduced a championship pool with the bowl contenders
winning cash. This was a contradiction
to our original intentions, but adding a small monetary pool made things more
competitive.
With our 6th season,
we have changed the name to the GridIron Fantasy League and made a few rule
changes to make the game more entertaining. The only change to any teams is a
new owner Venom (Pete Ringer) formerly known as Futbolers.
During our 7th
season, we welcomed two new owners.
Good-E-Nufs (John Potts) and Hitmen (Brian Hoover) formerly known as Da
Birds.
In 2003, our 9th
season, we once again had an ownership change with the LeatherHogs (George Cox)
being taken over by Mike Peters.
Good-E-Nufs (John Potts) formerly changed the team name to Buzzards.
In 2004 and we are
beginning our 10th season with a strong league and a solid core of
owners. One more team had changed hands
with Lowriders (Doug Burkey) becoming the Dutch Boys (Jamie Fizer).
Starting in 2006,
Eliminators changed hands with Tom Megashko becoming the new owner.
In 2005, we did not
have any teams change hands.
Year 2007 had only
one change, with LeatherHogs being taken over by Jeremy Price.
Our league plays a twelve game schedule with the top four teams in each
conference playing two rounds of playoffs leading into the GridIron Bowl
Past GridIron Bowl winners are:
|
GridIron Bowl I |
Predators (R) def
Mustangs |
|
GridIron Bowl II |
Marauders def
Predators |
|
GridIron Bowl III |
Marauders def Da
Birds |
|
GridIron Bowl IV |
Knuckleheads (R) def
Marauders |
|
GridIron Bowl V |
Lowriders (R) def
Da Birds |
|
GridIron Bowl VI |
Da Birds def Doom |
|
GridIron Bowl VII |
Predators def
Lowriders |
|
GridIron Bowl VIII |
Predators def Doom |
|
GridIron Bowl IX |
Predators def Doom |
|
GridIron Bowl X |
Hitmen def Outlaws |
|
GridIron Bowl XI |
Predators def Doom |
|
GridIron Bowl XII |
Predators def
Knuckleheads |
|
GridIron Bowl XIII |
Outlaws def Venom |
(R) - Indicates team
won GridIron Bowl in rookie season.