Seriously?  Fantasy football lawyers?  Yes, it’s true folks! Lawyers have been hired to handle disputes in fantasy football leagues and business is good.  Think about it!  You have leagues that cost $75 to join up to $10,000 and much more.  With that much money involved, people will fight.

It all started with the injury to Tom Brady that left the star quarterback out for the season and left fantasy footballers scrambling and fighting.  The idea was struck and stuck.  You can also buy insurance for your league as well.  When you get lawyers and insurance company’s involved, I thin I’ll pass.  No pun intended. 

In doing some research on this I discovered that fantasy football is not a new thing that started a few years ago.  I started back in the 60’s!  Really you ask?  Yes!  I wouldn’t lie! 

How It All Began

Legend has it Bill Winkenbach, a limited partner with the then-AFL’s Oakland Raiders, invented the game in a New York hotel room in 1962. Reporter Scotty Stirling and a Raiders publicist helped him craft the idea.
The Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League debuted in 1963. The eight teams picked skill players but also offensive ends and individual defensive players.

Players who played multiple positions, such as the Houston Oilers’ George Blanda, could be drafted twice. Blanda was drafted as a quarterback and a kicker. Stirling, now scouting director for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, said he saw Winkenbach in 1991. “He told me, ‘I told you we should have copyrighted the damned thing.’ ” Winkenbach died in March 1993.

Craig

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