How long have you been a member of this community? - Page 3

sabotai · 02-24-2013, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Buccaneer

I'm trying to remember what the interim forum was after The Sideline and before GameSpy. According to Blackie's timeline, we revolted and move elsewhere before Tony landed on his feet. Where was that elsewhere?

I completely forgot about that. I forget what they called it. I also remember that on that board when they were getting ready for this one, the mods announced "a surprise" and everyone went "A NEW FOF GAME!?!?!" and they then said "uuhhh....no, new board....sorry."

Buccaneer · 02-24-2013, 11:04 AM

I remember my first post on the Sideline and the first reply was from ColtsFan who welcomed me and hoped that I would fit in. Never did.

RendeR · 02-24-2013, 12:25 PM

I joined in the Fall of 2001. Now I look at the results of this poll and I just sit back and say "Wow, guess all those policies are just bringing in the newbies in DROVES"

Almost 2/3 of the membership that answered the poll is over 11 years here. Its kind of disturbing.

MrBug708 · 02-24-2013, 12:31 PM

I'd say a lack of a new game from Solecismic has prevented any new blood

RendeR · 02-24-2013, 12:39 PM

I don't doubt that plays into it too. No argument there.

britrock88 · 02-24-2013, 12:43 PM

Ksyrup left after an image thread-related boxing, no?

MIJB#19 · 02-24-2013, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Icy

I must admit fofc has been an important thing in my life, helping me to improve my English a lot for example, along with a better understanding of the USA culture and way of thinking outside text books, that has helped me a lot in my work career in the internet business. Thanks to Fofc i now can think and even dream in English, something you can usually only accomplish after living for some time in a new country.

Most of this applies to me too, ignoring the fact that I have little use of English in my work. We (the dutch) always claim we're so good in teaching our kids foreign languages and about cultures in (high) school, but the reality is that I would have still struggled with the English languauge without my time at FOFC. Ditto concerning culture in the USA.

Lathum · 02-24-2013, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by britrock88

Ksyrup left after an image thread-related boxing, no?

yeah

korme · 02-24-2013, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

What is weird is looking through some of the familiar names that haven't posted in months, or maybe years. Wonder where they went. Got tired of the board or something worse?

Somehow we usually find out about it if it's unfortunately "something worse."

yeah826 · 02-24-2013, 01:35 PM

3 years apparently but I know I was a lurker for a good 2 years.

JonInMiddleGA · 02-24-2013, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MIJB#19

Most of this applies to me too, ignoring the fact that I have little use of English in my work. We (the dutch) always claim we're so good in teaching our kids foreign languages and about cultures in (high) school, but the reality is that I would have still struggled with the English languauge without my time at FOFC. Ditto concerning culture in the USA.

FWIW, I generally feel like both you & Icy are virtually seamless with your English here.

What I suspect has happened with both of you is that you've picked up common usage rather than technically perfect English, which prevents you from standing out.

(although in the quote above the phrase "little use of English" would probably most frequently be said as "little use for English"

)

korme · 02-24-2013, 01:55 PM

Front Office Football Central <--STIX

korme · 02-24-2013, 02:15 PM

Any relative newbies not know where "Dola" comes from?

molson · 02-24-2013, 02:18 PM

I read as much FOF content as I could on the board in the early days but skimmed completely over all the board politic stuff. In retrospect, I'm kind of fascinated by that stuff and the evolution of these boards over the last 15 years. But then I try to take a peek back, maybe at the web.archive, or just now looking at STIX's last post in the forum from 2001 and I just can't follow it. I have no idea what he's talking about. I mean, I get the modern disputes involving photos and general asshattery, but for some reason I just can't stay with whatever the hell was going on back then.

It's interesting to look back at the evolution of threads from being all-FOF to what it is now.

I wonder how it'll all end. I guess there'll be a snowball effect eventually where there's fewer and fewer posts, and then you reach that critical point where the board so longer seems "active", and that causes people to stop coming, and then the death spiral. But how long until that happens? Are we talking 10 years? It's probably more likely that operation sports eventually goes away, and then there's maybe some half-ass attempt to establish a new site, but only a few people make the jump, and then things just never get going and instead die out. It's kind of an interesting social-internet dynamic, how message boards "die".

Bad-example · 02-24-2013, 02:39 PM

It was a mini review in a magazine (Video Games and Computer Entertainment?) that first alerted me to the original FOF and I started lurking The Sideline soon after that. I don't think I started posting until FOF2k1 was in the pipeline.

Blade · 02-24-2013, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBug708

Ksyrup
Rizon
Greyfooroo
daedelus
Huckleberry
Nomyths
GodzillaBlitz
Hornspurplefrog
rkmsuf
blade
theafoci
cringer
sachmo

Not sure if you mean me or Blade6119, as I wonder where he went. It has been over 12 years for me here, though I obviously lurk way more than I contribute!

Marmel · 02-24-2013, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Bad-example

It was a mini review in a magazine (Video Games and Computer Entertainment?) that first alerted me to the original FOF and I started lurking The Sideline soon after that. I don't think I started posting until FOF2k1 was in the pipeline.

You have the oldest thread on the board, at least according to the board statistics. It was a goodbye post and you said you were never coming here again.

I remember the green sideline days. I left for a number of years and have been back for a couple now I guess.

General Mike · 02-24-2013, 03:08 PM

Sometime in 2001, looking for something to take my mind off the passing of my mother I found OOTP and shortly after FOF.

britrock88 · 02-24-2013, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by korme

Any relative newbies not know where "Dola" comes from?

I see JeeberD is cited in the Urban Dictionary definition...

mckerney · 02-24-2013, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by britrock88

I see JeeberD is cited in the Urban Dictionary definition...

I think he sort of got the nickname since he posted a lot, but it comes from a poster Dolamite who posted a bunch of short posts in a row in several threads to shed the title of Rookie or whatever it was.

Young Drachma · 02-24-2013, 04:23 PM

Changing to Sideline Green as an homage.

mckerney · 02-24-2013, 04:29 PM

I still use Sideline Green. Change is scary even a decade later.

MIJB#19 · 02-24-2013, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

(although in the quote above the phrase "little use of English" would probably most frequently be said as "little use for English"

)

Hah. This gramatical error was a result of text restructuring, rather than misuse of the words of and for.

Which reminds me of something harldy related. I think I never commented on your previous signature, the one that included the name of Abraham Kuyper. I suspect that is the same Abraham Kuijper (original spelling) of whom a statue was revealed in Maassluis a couple of years ago. I actually attended the revelation and ride by on a daily base, purely because it's located on my route to work.

Completely off topic, clearly, but for whatever reason it felt appropriate to mention.

cartman · 02-24-2013, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MIJB#19

Hah. This gramatical error was a result of text restructuring, rather than misuse of the words of and for.

How solecismic of you...

Solecism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

thealmighty · 02-24-2013, 10:48 PM

Slightly over 11 years, though I had a different moniker in 2001.

JediKooter · 02-25-2013, 10:44 AM

Is FTB ever going to come back?

JeeberD · 02-25-2013, 10:52 AM

I've been around since the Sideline days, though I was computerless for a while and missed the migration to GameSpy. It took me a while to find where the board had gone, but found it again in 2000 (though my handle back then was "JeeberDMack").

I think I first found the Sideline by doing an AltaVista search about FOF when I first discovered FOF2. MIJB and I were both newbs at the same time over there...

My posting has cut dramatically over the past few years thanks to marriage and kid(s). I'm sure some of you *cough*Bucc*cough* are happy about that...

Lathum · 02-25-2013, 11:12 AM

I's funny to think there was a time when Jeebers post count was thought to be surpassed by anyone and now he is 9th.

Senator · 02-25-2013, 11:54 AM

Since Sideline. Since HornedFrogPurple left, my participation has lessened over time. We were like a wrestling tag team.

Seeing Shorty and Noop grow up on here has been something I really remember.

JeeberD · 02-25-2013, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

I's funny to think there was a time when Jeebers post count was thought to be surpassed by anyone and now he is 9th.

I know, right? I just checked, a mere 419 posts since my son was born just over three years ago. I used to post that much in a month...

Mizzou B-ball fan · 02-25-2013, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by JeeberD

I know, right? I just checked, a mere 419 posts since my son was born just over three years ago. I used to post that much in a month...

Kids do that to post counts. New jobs will do that as well.

Pyser · 02-25-2013, 01:22 PM

i was on the old board, but dont remember specifics about what went down. i found this from being upset at madden's stats. must of been late 90s if i had to guess?

this is still the only message board i check regularly, and certainly the only one i consider myself to be a part of.

it really is remarkable to think how long we have all been here. i guess we'll mostly all be here in another 12-15 years, too. crazy.

Suicane75 · 02-25-2013, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by JeeberD

I know, right? I just checked, a mere 419 posts since my son was born just over three years ago. I used to post that much in a month...

Laura Prepon To Pose For Playboy - Front Office Football Central

Maybe my favorite thread I ever started.

JediKooter · 02-25-2013, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Suicane75

Laura Prepon To Pose For Playboy - Front Office Football Central

Maybe my favorite thread I ever started.

I have to agree, feet are not sexy.

stevew · 02-25-2013, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Suicane75

Laura Prepon To Pose For Playboy - Front Office Football Central

Maybe my favorite thread I ever started.

It seems like Mr Skin does suggest hr topless in the movie "Lay the Favorite"

DanGarion · 02-25-2013, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Suicane75

Laura Prepon To Pose For Playboy - Front Office Football Central

Maybe my favorite thread I ever started.

And it never happened.

sabotai · 02-25-2013, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by stevew

It seems like Mr Skin does suggest hr topless in the movie "Lay the Favorite"

Confirmed.

(Google is your friend in these situations.)

ISiddiqui · 02-25-2013, 02:05 PM

2001 it seems. I guess it'd be strange to have many newbies considering the last time an FOFC game was released.

britrock88 · 02-25-2013, 02:41 PM

It's a valid point, but people also come for Werewolf, the FBB threads, and so on.

Subby · 02-25-2013, 03:00 PM

STIX FX Entertainment - Marketing and Web Development

https://twitter.com/jasonstix

Subby · 02-25-2013, 03:06 PM

And gamespy closed up shop last week:

GameSpy: PC Games, Reviews, News, Previews, Demos, Mods & Patches

SackAttack · 02-25-2013, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBug708

Sack was 3

Yeah, that sounds right.

Senator · 02-25-2013, 04:11 PM

tucker rocky · 02-25-2013, 04:21 PM

I remember doing a search for football sims back then.
FOF was one that came up, read the bio about the game,
looked interesting, so I downloaded and bought a license for the full game.
Became hooked ever since.
I came across FOFC, by way of doing searches about strategy and whatnot.

EDIT:
I lurked for about 2 years, before making my first post in 2003 though.

finketr · 02-25-2013, 04:43 PM

I remember the FOF posts in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports ..

i'm so old...and i typed that from memory...

JediKooter · 02-25-2013, 05:00 PM

Sports Digs joined two weeks before everyone else did.

Radii · 02-25-2013, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by finketr

I remember the FOF posts in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports ..

i'm so old...and i typed that from memory...

That's what brought to FOF and to FOFC.

samifan24 · 02-25-2013, 07:08 PM

My join date here is April 15, 2001 and I migrated here from the old site. I remember visiting the site on my 21st birthday and I'll be 30 next month. FOFC has been such a huge part of my online life--and for so long--that I can't imagine what it would be like if the site ceased to exist.

kcchief19 · 02-25-2013, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by finketr

I remember the FOF posts in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports ..

i'm so old...and i typed that from memory...

Yep, that's how I found FOF. I was looking for an alternative to FPS, and saw the raves about FOF. But I was making $20,000, so spending money on a game from a guy selling them out of his garage seemed crazy. The day I finally decided I should take the plunge was the day Jim posted FOF1 had sold out.

Sweed · 02-25-2013, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

10 years for me come October. Also first heard of fofc on the OOTP boards and IIRC what a badass place fofc could be

Lurked a bit and found it an interesting board to hang out at. I think I joined when I bought my first FOF.

Unless I am away from home I probably log in here at least once a day.

View Poll Results: So... how long?
1-2 years	1	0.54%
2-3 years	2	1.08%
4-5 years	1	0.54%
5-6 years	7	3.78%
7-8 years	20	10.81%
9-10 years	30	16.22%
11+	122	65.95%
I have trout older than that	2	1.08%
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02-24-2013, 12:25 PM	#103
RendeR Coordinator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Buffalo, NY	I joined in the Fall of 2001. Now I look at the results of this poll and I just sit back and say "Wow, guess all those policies are just bringing in the newbies in DROVES" Almost 2/3 of the membership that answered the poll is over 11 years here. Its kind of disturbing. __________________ http://wotlabs.net/s...8/signature.png http://wotlabs.net/sig_dark/na/banichi18/signature.png

02-24-2013, 12:39 PM	#105
RendeR Coordinator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Buffalo, NY	I don't doubt that plays into it too. No argument there. __________________ http://wotlabs.net/s...8/signature.png http://wotlabs.net/sig_dark/na/banichi18/signature.png

02-24-2013, 02:18 PM	#114
molson General Manager Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Mountains	I read as much FOF content as I could on the board in the early days but skimmed completely over all the board politic stuff. In retrospect, I'm kind of fascinated by that stuff and the evolution of these boards over the last 15 years. But then I try to take a peek back, maybe at the web.archive, or just now looking at STIX's last post in the forum from 2001 and I just can't follow it. I have no idea what he's talking about. I mean, I get the modern disputes involving photos and general asshattery, but for some reason I just can't stay with whatever the hell was going on back then. It's interesting to look back at the evolution of threads from being all-FOF to what it is now. I wonder how it'll all end. I guess there'll be a snowball effect eventually where there's fewer and fewer posts, and then you reach that critical point where the board so longer seems "active", and that causes people to stop coming, and then the death spiral. But how long until that happens? Are we talking 10 years? It's probably more likely that operation sports eventually goes away, and then there's maybe some half-ass attempt to establish a new site, but only a few people make the jump, and then things just never get going and instead die out. It's kind of an interesting social-internet dynamic, how message boards "die". Last edited by molson : 02-24-2013 at 02:19 PM.

02-24-2013, 10:48 PM	#125
thealmighty Pro Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: heaven	Slightly over 11 years, though I had a different moniker in 2001. __________________ Check out The Unofficial FOFC Movie Guide Here

02-24-2013, 11:04 AM	#102
Buccaneer Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Colorado	I remember my first post on the Sideline and the first reply was from ColtsFan who welcomed me and hoped that I would fit in. Never did.

02-24-2013, 12:31 PM	#104
MrBug708 Head Coach Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Whittier	I'd say a lack of a new game from Solecismic has prevented any new blood

02-24-2013, 12:43 PM	#106
britrock88 Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Madison, WI	Ksyrup left after an image thread-related boxing, no?

02-24-2013, 01:35 PM	#110
yeah826 High School JV Join Date: Sep 2010	3 years apparently but I know I was a lurker for a good 2 years.

02-24-2013, 01:55 PM	#112
korme Go Reds Join Date: May 2001 Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio	Front Office Football Central <--STIX

02-24-2013, 02:15 PM	#113
korme Go Reds Join Date: May 2001 Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio	Any relative newbies not know where "Dola" comes from?

02-24-2013, 02:39 PM	#115
Bad-example College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: san jose CA	It was a mini review in a magazine (Video Games and Computer Entertainment?) that first alerted me to the original FOF and I started lurking The Sideline soon after that. I don't think I started posting until FOF2k1 was in the pipeline.

02-24-2013, 03:08 PM	#118
General Mike Pro Starter Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: The State of Rutgers	Sometime in 2001, looking for something to take my mind off the passing of my mother I found OOTP and shortly after FOF.

02-24-2013, 04:23 PM	#121
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Changing to Sideline Green as an homage.

02-24-2013, 04:29 PM	#122
mckerney Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	I still use Sideline Green. Change is scary even a decade later.

02-25-2013, 10:44 AM	#126
JediKooter Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego	Is FTB ever going to come back? __________________ I'm no longer a Chargers fan, they are dead to me Coming this summer to a movie theater near you: The Adventures of Jedikooter: Part 4

02-25-2013, 10:52 AM	#127
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	I've been around since the Sideline days, though I was computerless for a while and missed the migration to GameSpy. It took me a while to find where the board had gone, but found it again in 2000 (though my handle back then was "JeeberDMack"). I think I first found the Sideline by doing an AltaVista search about FOF when I first discovered FOF2. MIJB and I were both newbs at the same time over there... My posting has cut dramatically over the past few years thanks to marriage and kid(s). I'm sure some of you coughBucccough are happy about that... __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO Last edited by JeeberD : 02-25-2013 at 10:54 AM.

02-25-2013, 11:12 AM	#128
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	I's funny to think there was a time when Jeebers post count was thought to be surpassed by anyone and now he is 9th.

02-25-2013, 11:54 AM	#129
Senator FOFC's Elected Representative Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The stars at night; are big and bright	Since Sideline. Since HornedFrogPurple left, my participation has lessened over time. We were like a wrestling tag team. Seeing Shorty and Noop grow up on here has been something I really remember. __________________ "i have seen chris simms play 4-5 times in the pros and he's very clearly got it. he won't make a pro bowl this year, but it'll come. if you don't like me saying that, so be it, but its true. we'll just have to wait until then" imettrentgreen "looking at only ten games, and oddly using a median only, leaves me unmoved generally" - Quiksand

02-25-2013, 01:22 PM	#132
Pyser Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Los Angeles	i was on the old board, but dont remember specifics about what went down. i found this from being upset at madden's stats. must of been late 90s if i had to guess? this is still the only message board i check regularly, and certainly the only one i consider myself to be a part of. it really is remarkable to think how long we have all been here. i guess we'll mostly all be here in another 12-15 years, too. crazy.

02-25-2013, 02:05 PM	#138
ISiddiqui Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Decatur, GA	2001 it seems. I guess it'd be strange to have many newbies considering the last time an FOFC game was released. __________________ "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" -Tennessee Williams

02-25-2013, 02:41 PM	#139
britrock88 Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Madison, WI	It's a valid point, but people also come for Werewolf, the FBB threads, and so on.

02-25-2013, 03:00 PM	#140
Subby lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: sans pants	STIX FX Entertainment - Marketing and Web Development https://twitter.com/jasonstix __________________ Superman was flying around and saw Wonder Woman getting a tan in the nude on her balcony. Superman said I going to hit that real fast. So he flys down toward Wonder Woman to hit it and their is a loud scream. The Invincible Man scream what just hit me in the ass!!!!! I do shit, I take pictures, I write about it: chrisshue.com Last edited by Subby : 02-25-2013 at 03:01 PM.

02-25-2013, 03:06 PM	#141
Subby lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: sans pants	And gamespy closed up shop last week: GameSpy: PC Games, Reviews, News, Previews, Demos, Mods & Patches __________________ Superman was flying around and saw Wonder Woman getting a tan in the nude on her balcony. Superman said I going to hit that real fast. So he flys down toward Wonder Woman to hit it and their is a loud scream. The Invincible Man scream what just hit me in the ass!!!!! I do shit, I take pictures, I write about it: chrisshue.com

02-25-2013, 04:11 PM	#143
Senator FOFC's Elected Representative Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The stars at night; are big and bright	__________________ "i have seen chris simms play 4-5 times in the pros and he's very clearly got it. he won't make a pro bowl this year, but it'll come. if you don't like me saying that, so be it, but its true. we'll just have to wait until then" imettrentgreen "looking at only ten games, and oddly using a median only, leaves me unmoved generally" - Quiksand

02-25-2013, 04:21 PM	#144
tucker rocky Pro Rookie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Of no particular interest	I remember doing a search for football sims back then. FOF was one that came up, read the bio about the game, looked interesting, so I downloaded and bought a license for the full game. Became hooked ever since. I came across FOFC, by way of doing searches about strategy and whatnot. EDIT: I lurked for about 2 years, before making my first post in 2003 though. Last edited by tucker rocky : 02-25-2013 at 04:30 PM.

02-25-2013, 04:43 PM	#145
finketr College Prospect Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inland Empire, PRC	I remember the FOF posts in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports .. i'm so old...and i typed that from memory...

02-25-2013, 05:00 PM	#146
JediKooter Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego	Sports Digs joined two weeks before everyone else did. __________________ I'm no longer a Chargers fan, they are dead to me Coming this summer to a movie theater near you: The Adventures of Jedikooter: Part 4

02-25-2013, 07:08 PM	#148
samifan24 Pro Starter Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: NC	My join date here is April 15, 2001 and I migrated here from the old site. I remember visiting the site on my 21st birthday and I'll be 30 next month. FOFC has been such a huge part of my online life--and for so long--that I can't imagine what it would be like if the site ceased to exist. __________________ "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball...and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." -Jim Bouton

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