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Date Posted: 21:02:36 12/07/02 Sat
Author: Ewen
Subject: League History

Bartley, er Ryan...thanks for bringing this lack of league participation to our attention. I think the reason is that everyone is speechless about the Clubbers making to the playoffs for the fist time since the early years of the Foreign Fantasy League. That brings back some memories. Maybe for the sake of those new league members we should recap how our wonderful fantasy league was born.
Ryan Knispel was an aspiring young lad fresh from the fields of Fairbury entering a strange, new collegiate world. College life was tough on Ryan though. Weekends would find Ryan sitting alone in his familiar 12x15 dorm room adorned with Dungeons & Dragons posters and Star Wars action figures still in their original packaging. Ryan's loneliness drove him to seek the company of other socially inept students on that small Lincoln campus, the foreign exchange gang. Though not an engineering student nor able to differentiate Kashmir and Delhi dialects, Ryan hit it off with his new friends. Their interests during those first semesters included HAM radio club, trips to the planetarium, and impromptu fencing competitions in the dorm hallway. One monumental event his sophomore year would change young Ryan forever. His friend, Vin Supasipapan, an Indian national, started a Fantasy Cricket Club in the dorm. Everyone who was anyone joined, so Ryan eagerly threw down his 2,413 Rupee entry fee (50 US Dollars) and joined his friends. Well, Ryan knew nothing about cricket, drafted the equivalent of an average Bednarz FFL squad, and quickly lost his 2,413 Rupees! The humiliation gave Ryan an idea...his friends knew as much about American football as he did cricket...and the Foreign Fantasy Football League was born! Though Ryan's football knowledge barely exceeded that of cricket, the competition was clueless! Many of the exchange students were unaware of the NFL and commissioner Knispel allowed them to draft entire teams compiled of Weslyan football players! This of course allowed Ryan to make the playoffs often in those early years, though the FFL Championship continually eluded him. However, in 1992 a controversial break would lead to his one and only FFL title and the eventual disbanding of the Foreign Football League. In the 1992 FFL Championship game Stanislaus Bogislav's Bolsheviks defeated Ryan's Bills 42.8 to 27.2. But before Stanislaus could accept his title and the $125 pot, he was deported due to an outdated Visa. Ryan crowned himself FFL Champion and claimed the cash. Many league members to this day believe the INS was anonymously tipped off by Knispel! The league was never able to trust its commissioner again and 1992 proved to be its final season. The Foreign Fantasy League was over and Ryan wouldn't see the playoffs again until 2002 but he had claimed his FFL "title." The transition from the Foreign League to the Fantasy Football League (the predecessor of the current Franchise Fantasy Football League) would be tough for Ryan as the competition would never be as easy. It proved hard for him to win games now that these new owners knew what a touchdown was. Knowing he was in trouble, Ryan began filling the league with chromosome deficient childhood friends, slow-witted relatives, Weslyan golf team dullards, and foul-mouth West Point rednecks. His plan seems to be working...as league IQ drops, Ryan's FFFL standing rises. I hope this helps you new owners understand the rich history of the league. As Ryan personally chose you newbies to join, I want to thank whoever is reading this message to you...I didn't have time to compose it phonetically.
Thank you and goodnight!
SkinBoat RULES!
I am out.
Cap

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