A low point in an otherwise championship fantasy football season. He was on the bench for me that week.
Ha! You too had Flipper! Those were the early days of FFLs. Before the magazines. Before the internet. We had a blast.
My brother and I had a team and back then we didn’t go head to head. But just score rankings out of 8 teams.
I’ve told this story before, but one of the guys in our Fantasy league was ESPNs David Lloyd.
It was his first gig out of college here in Sacramento doing sports for the local Fox affiliate, before getting hired by his hometown ESPN.
We’d meet up for drafts and an occasional game during the year. He and his brother ran a team too. Good dudes.
We had rookie Barry Sanders as our first ever draft pick. Also Ellard, And Pete Holohan I remember.
Flippers record night was so unexpected. Pretty awesome.