I seem to recall Katman, Blueballer and RuppsRunts posting on this board...or more accurately, a previous incarnation of this board. for some period of time.
I started posting under my existing nickname either in '97 or '98. Sorry, all the board name changes run together after 22 years. Had an account at DD because this place was very unwelcoming to those who wanted OTS gone in the early days. I wasn't very active there as the site seemed a lot less polished versus this one.
But, slowly the numbers who were ready for OTS to move on grew and then this board broke out into an all out war. LOD vs. TSF'ers. There were some knock-down drag out battles on this board in those days. I remember someone kept posting a old black & white photo of a farmer and his mule plowing a rough field every time one of Tubby's teams would score in the 40's. LOL!
A similar but, much smaller war broke out during BCG's reign.
I was off work with an injury and followed the hiring of Cal in real-time on Maggard's old board. Even bought a trial membership to get the inside news. My recollection is that Cal's contract was agreed to in principle in a morning meeting in Chicago. But, the guy MM or one of his connections was getting the real-time info from might have been from NY or New Jersey? I posted some updates over here as I was getting them from the Maggard board but, the admin's here were deleting them pretty quickly. Some info was finally posted here but, the details were at least an hour old by the time they went up. It was a very exciting time! Was constantly refreshing screens and on the phone with my UK buddies at their jobs all day long.
So much crazy stuff has happened here and at other sites like DD over the years. Would love to see some screen shots from back in those days just to be able to remember all the names and sigs.
