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talking about fantasy football. For the uninformed or uninitiated, fantasy football has nothing to do with sorcery or magic spells, unless you count getting a league winner off of the waiver wire as a particular form of sorcery. It's a game where you serve as the general manager of a football team by drafting real-life players and receiving points for how well they did in their real-life game that week. Here to tell the story of the first fantasy football league is Peter Funt, author of Inside Fantasy Football and the host of Candid Camera. Let's get into this story.
We start it with football going from Bush League to the big time because of a merger. The Oakland Raiders were third in the Western Division with a 6-8 record. John Flores was ranked sixth in passing in the AFL. Jet dreams fit just more. I think The turning point really was in 1960 When the AFL was formed, And this was a rival to the NFL as we know it now.
And some of the teams in the AFL. were owned by guys who tried hard to get an NFL franchise and were, for one reason or another, rejected.
So there were these wealthy individuals who wanted to invest in football. The NFL wouldn't let them in. and so they formed the AFL. Uh Uh Originally, in nineteen sixty, there were eight teams in the AFL. And one of them, in fact the last to join the list, was the Oakland Raiders.
They were last because they weren't even supposed to be in. That spot was intended for the Minnesota Vikings. But at the last minute the Vikings jumped into the NFL And these AFL upstarts had one vacancy.
so they hurriedly formed the Oakland Raiders. And right from the start it was a mess. And I don't want to insult Raider fans today They won a few games their first year in 1960. They won, I believe, two in their second season. And by the third season, the 1962 season, their pathetic record was 1 and 13.
And a minority owner of this Oakland Raider franchise was a Bay Area resident named Bill Winkenbach. His friends called him Wink. He was a big sports fan. He was interested, like many of us, in playing sports, but quickly found he wasn't good enough at it. What he was good at was business, and he was in the ceramic tile business.
He made a lot of money. And he decided to invest a chunk of it in this terrible Oakland Raider team. The interesting thing about Winkenbach is that. Ten years earlier, in the mid-early 1950s, He actually invented an early form of fantasy sports. First he did it with PGA Tour Golf.
And he had this idea that if he and his friends each divided up the field at a PGA Tour event, And then kept track of the individual scores of the players and translated it somehow into small monetary bets. They can make a game out of it. They never used the word fantasy sports. That came in way later. But they were playing essentially a form of the game.
They became interested to the point where they tried it with baseball.
So again, in the mid fifties, Winkenbach was playing a very crude early form of fantasy baseball. All they counted was home runs. And certain pitching statistics. But that was in the back of his mind. In nineteen sixty two, When Linkenbach accompanied the raiders on a road trip to the east coast, By the time they landed in New York City, their record for the season was 0-7.
and really things were headed in the wrong direction. Winkenbach and his pals who traveled with the team, and that included. A writer for the Oakland Tribune, some members of the Raiders' front office staff. They were all miserable, not only because the team was doing so poorly, but because as fans, They wish they had some superstars to root for. Don't forget the other league, the successful NFL, had big stars like Jim Brown and Mike Ditke and Frank Gifford.
And they're kind of moaning over the fact that they don't have anybody in their league of that caliber, and they certainly don't have anybody that good on the Raiders.
So here they are in New York and they're going to play the The team called the New York Titans. And they later became, as we know, the New York Jets. But this was the Titans in 1962. It was a rainy, miserable night when they showed up in New York in advance of the game. They went to a hotel in Mid Manhattan and quickly made their way into the bar.
And the more they drank, the more the idea for this Again, they didn't call it fantasy game, but this game, this pretend football game, took shape. And by morning, they had essentially invented fantasy football. They flew home to Oakland, and it was too late in the season to start this game, and they waited until the following summer. the nineteen sixty three Football season, and they had a draft in August in Winkenbach basement in Oakland. And there were eight guys.
and they each had a helper.
So there was a grand total of 16 guys. And they formed this league, the very first fantasy football league in history. And they gave it a very unusual, cumbersome name. They called it the Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League. Goppel.
And that, folks, was the first fantasy football league. The interesting thing is, the rules that they came up with for the Gappa League. were quite similar to what we play today at least in so-called seasonal redraft, recreational, fantasy football competition. It's it's quite similar to what they did. But it was much, much more difficult for these guys, primarily because there were no computers.
The only source of information about the football games was the box scores in newspapers. And in order to keep track of the results for the fantasy football games, Winkenbach spent hours and hours each week, late into the night, looking at the Bach score in the early edition of the newspaper and carefully tabulating how everybody was doing. And I repeat, they did not use the term. Fantasy football. In fact, that term didn't even enter the lexicon until some decades later.
What did they call it? Winkenbach called his game the draft. That's what he called it. because they knew then, as many of us know now, That perhaps the most exciting part of a fantasy football competition is the draft. getting together, taking turns, picking players, Forming relationships that, in some cases, carry on for decades.
And uh So they called it the draft, but the rules were similar to what we think of today. They played for pennies. And uh they have a lot of fun. Yeah. And a special thanks to Peter Funt, his book, Inside Fantasy Football.
Go to Amazon or the usual suspects and pick it up. And by the way, the draft. is now a mega event. And a large part of it has to do with these guys drinking in New York. And the next thing you know, you have the Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League.
gobble and the beginning the birth. of fantasy football. The story of the first fantasy football team here. on our American stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans.
It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years. And now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues.
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