So, here we go!
2002: TheDominicanFootallLeague
Gold - Pillow Clown (Whitey)
Silver - Go Pack Go (Jason - Phil's coworker)
Bronze - Always Touch Down There (Miah)
The inaugural year! Really, the only people who had any idea were Whitey and Skoot. Everyone else was kinda drafting blind, as most of us didn't really know anything about football in general. Also, this was the year that we had the biggest trade veto that I remember. Whitey offered someone for Curt Warner. I accepted, but Jason flipped out so bad about it being a lopsided trade that I reneged on it. (As a follow up, Warner was hurt before the end of the first week, out for the rest of the season.) 10 man league. Woah - Bill was in this year?
2003: The Dominican Football League
Gold - White Vanilla (Whitey)
Silver - Da Clown Stompers (JM -who? edit: Jenny - forgot about Jenny!)
Bronze - Pirate Monkeys (Phil - Yay!)
Our first back to back championship, though it would certainly not be the last. Man, did we really only have 8 teams this year??? Man,I do not remember these things!
2004: Dominicana
Gold - Asshaitians (Skoot)
Silver - PickMe (Ben)
Bronze - No Clownin (JM - again - who was this guy?? edit: Still Jenny)
Our second Champion is crowned. Skoot and Kookie enter the "Who can make pick ups the earliest" war. Works out very well for Skoot, not so much for Kookie. Woah! Ben pulled in second place. Good on ya, Ben! Still an 8 team league.
2005: Dominicana
Gold - What the deuce? (Whitey - again, damn)
Silver - The Pork Chop Express (Patrick)
Bronze - ITouchDownThereDaily (Miah)
Patrick's first year in the league and he's already showing us up. Still an 8 man league
2006: Dominican Football League 06
Gold - The MarieTards (Marie)
Silver - Ninja Pirates (Phil - Yay!)
Bronze - The Pocket Pollys (Melanie)
Thus begins the reign of the ladies in the DFL. Also, Marie's team name is probably the best name that we have ever had in the league and remains so to this day. League is expanded out to 10 teams (with Jennie and Mike G joining....)
2007: Dominicana 2007
Gold - Chewie's Dad (Whitey)
Silver - Odoyle Rules! (Skoot)
Bronze - Shockers (Missy)
See? All ladies getting medals. Also, this is the year of Crap on a Stick. Fun fact.... even with Skoot making mad pick ups for Crap on a Stick, Kookie *still* had 2 more moves than anyone else in the league. And here is where the league topped out at 12 people. (Well, technically, only Missy joined - and showed the league who's who - and a bot.)
2008: DFL v2.0 (2008)
Gold - Hellboy (Jennie)
Silver - QuitYourJibbaJabba (Phil)
Bronze - 4theL8dz (Whitey)
This was the first year that Phil took over as commissioner. Previously, it was all Skoot. This was the first year that we really started to change up the rules, added the tracking of the picks metagame, and started the elimination league. Joy's first year in the league. Also, this was the first year that Missy stole gold from Phil when Feagles shanked an easy (though meaningless in the NFL) field goal in our championship.
2009: DFL v2.1 (2009)
Gold - Team That Guy (Patrick)
Silver - Scooby Doo (Missy)
Bronze - NanaMomma (Joy)
A few more changes coming down the lane this year. I think that it was this year that I was faithfully doing write ups until week 9 or so, when Skoot changed web hosting providers. The bad thing is that all of the previous write ups were taken with him that year. We didn't continue with the write ups for the rest of the year.
2010: DFL v2.2 (2010)
Gold - Ator's Braid (Joy)
Silver - Lez is Mo (Marie)
Bronze - Aussie Rules! (Whitey)
This was Whitey's last year in the league and he *still* winds up on the medal stand. Bitter. Skoot took over the commissionering back this year.
2011: Dominican Football League
Gold - Popcorn Boobs (Joy)
Silver - Team Station (Ky;e)
Bronze - The Masters of Evil (Kookie)
Woah! Kookie on the medal stand? Plus Joy was the second back to back champion in the history of the league. Good year, good year.
2012: DFL 2012
Gold - ScoobyDoo (Missy)
Silver - Superion (Melanie)
Bronze - Philthy Bastards (Phil)
Two new players join the league. (Kyle and Marie bowed out; Crutch and Terri G in.) Neither of them went into the playoffs, but this was probably the closest year that we had in both the play off race and the pick 'em league. Also, this was the year that Melanie set the record for the quickest elimination in the elimination league. (2 strikes in 2 weeks.) We settled on diamondshaft.blogspot.com as the official location of the write ups. Thanks to Kookie and Ben, this was the first year in the history of the league where there was a weekly write up the entire year. And lastly, this was the second time that Missy stole Phil's gold.
2013: DFL 2013
It's up for grabs, you silly sods! Go get 'em!
Got any extra memories? Comment them up, cowboy!
Somehow you have to add the Rick Roll contest in there but i can't figure out how you'd present your angle :) heheh
ReplyDeleteI happened to notice the year that my team name was Rick Roll King, but sadly, I didn't place that year. :-)
ReplyDeleteWow, very impressive Phil! Can't believe you were able to piece that all together! I peaked early with my name choice and have never been able to live up to it since :)
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