How long have you been a member of this community?

[Dodgerchick]

poll forthcoming

Antmeister and I were talking about how long we've been with FOFC. I've been a part of the community since 2004 and Ant joined in late 2003 but was a lurker since 2000.

So what brought you here? For me, it was listening to Ant busting up after reading some story on the board, or I'd give him what I thought were breaking news and he'd say, "That's old news, it's been on the board for hours". So I had to check it out and I'm glad I did. You guys are a bunch of unique, sarcastic, quick-witted characters and I'm glad to know you.

[Antmeister]

Not sure how to answer this. I wrote 3 posts on the old board in total and was mainly a lurker. So not sure if that qualifies as 11+ years. Because I didn't officially post on this board until 2003.

[Marc Vaughan]

I joined this board around the time my daughter started Primary school in England .... she's now at University in Florida.

(so thanks for reminding me I'm now OLD )

[Draft Dodger]

where is the "too fucking long" option?

[Izulde]

I'm also not sure how long I've been here. I know I had an original account that I forgot the password for.

[MacroGuru]

since 03. I joined for Hattrick and also the ability to push my indoor soccer sim, well the sim died and my love for the game or the community didn't.

[MizzouRah]

September will be 11 years.. wow. Where is my cane?

[Eaglesfan27]

Coming up to 11 years as well.

[judicial clerk]

I think I came here looking for a good football simulation after Front Page Sports Football Pro sort of imploded. I started on the old Sideline board.

With kids, work, and incompatible technology, I have not played FOF in many years, although it is still one of my favorites. I still come to the board because I enjoy the conversation more than other message boards or blogs I have read.

[Young Drachma]

I had an account on the original board but forgot that user name and created Dark Cloud we moved to the other site. Didn't really leave the dynasty forum for years.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I go back to when Ben was Skydog & Pumpy posted pictures.

2 words tell whether you are a true veteran or not: Patriotic Undies.

[molson]

Since a few months before FOF2 came out, so definitely 11+ years. Though I only had a couple of posts here and there until around 2004-2005

[Lathum]

Over 11 years. I think I was also a member of the prior version of the board but took a while to migrate over.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Yikes!

<------12 years already?

Like most, looking for something more than console gaming, more stats/strategy based. For the first few years, I posted sparingly, and only in the FOFC forum.

Then, being in SW PA, I learned of the legend of the Pumpy, migrated to the OT forum, and have been hooked ever since.

[Honolulu_Blue]

A long time.

My join date here is October 2000, but I feel like I first posted on an older message board, but it was only like one post.

It's pretty crazy to think how long it' been. Still, this is really the only message board/community I have ever really been involved in any kind of way. It meets all of my needs: sports, news, pop culture, video games, board games, etc.

I bought the first FOF and loved it. That's how I found this place. I believe the first post I ever had on any FOF message board was about how I enjoyed to infusing some aspect of "role playing" into the game to make it seem more real or something like that.

[Buccaneer]

Youngsters.

[MrBug708]

Whenever FOF2 came out...my favorite version of the game

[lungs]

May of 2002 was my join date but I know I had another screen name that I never really posted under and forgot the password. May of 2002 would have been the end of my freshman year in college. But I know I've at least been reading since high school.

[vex]

TCY brought me here.

[claphamsa]

I came to play WW... Im shocked it was only 5.5 years ago!

[PilotMan]

Yeah, I officially registered back about 11 years ago, but I was a lurker for a few months before that. I was looking for a football game like OOTP and found this.

I've been thinking that this board has been moving into its golden years, but it's still the place I frequent the most throughout the day.

And yes, I feel old too, not Bucc old, but old as compared to, you know, the 20 something I was when I started here and had only 1 kid.

[spleen1015]

10 years when September gets here.

I found out this place and FOF because someone from here came over to the OOTP boards and was posting a bunch of crap over something. Then, someone told them to take their BS back over to FOFC and I had to find out what FOFC was.

[BYU 14]

Will be 11 in June......Hell I was young when I joined here

[DaddyTorgo]

Splitting the difference between when I registered on this board (2002) and when I first started posting (2004 - i forgot my password and couldn't get access to it for a long time...i wish i could remember what actually compelled me to finally post).

[PackerFanatic]

Been around since 2005...stuck around because of the awesome song Ant made about me

[Antmeister]

Definitely been here too long. Here is a picture I posted in the Kid's Thread about 6 1/2 years ago:


And here they are today:

[Antmeister]

Originally Posted by PackerFanatic

Been around since 2005...stuck around because of the awesome song Ant made about me

LOL....caught somebody cheat at FastFL.

[Alan T]

You can blame Celeval for me being here. Back in the late 1990s he was my source for Text sports sim games on the computer. He introduced me to FOF way back when, and eventually I created an account here. It is all his fault.

[DanGarion]

Let me post first and then I can answer.

[mauchow]

Gotta post to see

[mauchow]

Thats wild dan g. We both posted that and we had the same join dates.

[DanGarion]

The guys from the RWBL brought me here. They kept talking about FOFC and I knew nothing about it. So once I figured out what it was and saw how great of a community it was I joined. Even through all the years and the complaints I still love this community more than any other and am happy to still be part of it.

[OldGiants]

The old board for me. Was that FOF2?

I miss those days, the discussions were almost all about the game.

I can still remember the exact day this board was ruined. I checked to see if a TCY patch had been posted, but the first several threads were all from that cocksucking turd of a screen name Kodos, such as "How popular were you in high school?"

Jim's link to the patch was well down the page.

I knew then this forum would never be about Jim's games again.

[Edward64]

6 years but was a lurker for a while.

[EagleFan]

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

2 words tell whether you are a true veteran or not: Patriotic Undies.

Great, now I have that picture in my head...

[BillJasper]

The members page lists my join date as 12-16-2001, which sounds about right. But it also lists my last post as 12-31-1969.

EDIT: Looks like I have two accounts somehow, the join date for this one is August 13,2001.

[Kodos]

I just started today.

[RedKingGold]

Originally Posted by judicial clerk

I think I came here looking for a good football simulation after Front Page Sports Football Pro sort of imploded. I started on the old Sideline board.

This, although I lurked a few years before registering. FOF brought me to the community when I was 15 and had to buy the game with my mom's credit card.

[RedKingGold]

I actually discovered FOF through a review on IGN. I wonder if that website even still exists?

[EagleFan]

I started at Sideline but posted very little there. The I received an email about FOFC and signed up and somehow over 12 years have passed since.


When I joined FOFC:
-My oldest daughter was 1 month old.
-I had just turned 31 and was working as a program analyst.
-Had been married for 6 years.
-Had only flown twice in my life (vaction with wife in Vegas and vacation with wife in Jamaica).
-Had only left the country one time, Jamaica.
-Had worked just 2 jobs since high school, a retail stint for a while before getting into casino/IT.
-Ran a site simleague.net in which I had a BBPro 98 league running on the site.


Since joining:
-Oldest daughter is 12 and youngest will be 9 on Monday.
-Now 43 and a Program Manager for a third party casino ccompany.
-Have been married for 18 years.
-Not even sure how many times I have flown at this point, though almost all for work reasons.
-Have now been to India (multiple times), Germany, China, Canada as well as the original Jamaica.
-Not including the job I had when I started, I have worked 4 different jobs (though it really endes up being the 2 playces two times) and unfortunately had a year and a half of being out of work and having medical problems during that span.
-Expanded simleague.net to include two different BBPro leagues (one that I ran and one that someone who was in my original league ran), an OOTP historical league, a NASCAR Racing league, a Pro Basketball league and was trying to start a college basketball league. EA attempted to strong arm me to give up the site, threatening a lawsuit because of the game The Sims, saying I was trying to use the popularity of that game to "sell" the site. They didn't do much research to see that not only had I run the site since well before that game came out but that I was not making any money on the site but was doing it as a hobby. Have since stopped running that site and I see that WhatIfSports has since gobbled up the name.

[Abe Sargent]

I came here from Madden. Someone on the MaddenMania boards, where I was, recommended EA Sports's FOF 2k1 for me, since i Loved the GM Mode of Madden so much. That led me to play it, check out FOF, and so the story began.

[Ryan S]

I was a member of the Sideline at GA Sports since it opened, and I even remember when Tony Wyss posted a message at the GA High Heat board (was it called The Dugout?) announcing the creation of the site.

I was originally member #67 here, and became #1 when I moved the board over to vBulletin.

[revrew]

Long enough to remember patriotic undies. I still refer to Ben as Skydog, and my wife still chuckles as the SWMBO moniker.

Hey, how about that? Kodos and I joined the same month.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

Whenever FOF2 came out...my favorite version of the game

My favorite of the series, probably due to the abundance of great corners late in the draft.

May have to install that again.

[MrBug708]

Anywhere to get the original file?

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

Whenever FOF2 came out...my favorite version of the game

That was one fantastic game.

[britrock88]

Hmm... FBCB brought me here, actually. I probably started lurking from around the time FBCB2 came out (April 2010).

[Blackadar]

I think Ryan S and I are two of the originals...something like 15 years or so now.

[Dodgerchick]

Originally Posted by mauchow

Thats wild dan g. We both posted that and we had the same join dates.

*queue Twilight Zone music*

[Fidatelo]

I've been here over 10 years, I believe FOF2001 was my first stab at the series. Still always my most-visited web site aside from Google.