The First Fantasy Football Magazine

The Athletic has a pretty interesting article on the origins of Fantasy Football Index – and thus, fantasy football:

https://theathletic.com/1034502/2019/07/25/reality-doesnt-bite-how-two-seattle-college-students-created-the-first-fantasy-football-magazine/

“A couple of years later, we got an email address and built a primitive website,” said [Bruce] Taylor. “This was back when you needed AOL or Prodigy to connect to the internet from your home — this was even before AOL started flooding the world with floppy disks and CDs. We hooked up our 2,400-baud modem — that was a really good connection speed at the time — and I couldn’t keep up with the incoming email. I swear every person with email at work had been waiting for a way to use it to goof off.”

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