Old BC was my favourite league full stop.  Some great coaches and top blokes. You were right paul, Sam Crimi won the first SB over my Raiders, then i swapped with Ian Steele and took over Tampa Bay and we forged out great rivalry.  Over all the years. never had a tougher div foe period!  Your Lions were a great team but we had a delightful habit of pipping you for the title on the final day of the regular season (at least 3 times).  Dteroit always had to go the long way around from the wildcard, and like the Eagles were most unfortunate to have not quite cashed in on great coaching.  Another great example of coaches doing good things don't always get the rich rewards that they deserve, with a little bit of missing luck.  The Eagles and Lions MADE the Buccs a better team.

There are several reasons for my fondness of the GA, but one is the ability to have some fun and try new things ou. The GA is a good standard, competitive league, but is a drop below the AY.  It is good fun, and as Al hit the nail on the head that the AY is sometimes too cut throat to get too crazy with plays.  Greg being the greybeard and patriarch of the league, it has a great history that continues to shine.

Stormin, greta story about Greg E.  He was a competitive dickens, would have been tough being on the end of a mother of a hiding at half time! lol  Have you heard from him since?  That is a mother of a dummy spit! lol  Sounds like he did leave the stadium at the half and walked off into retirement!  Its a tough gig this coaching game, pity we didn't have to pay for it but got paid for it!
Love to tell the boss to stick my job where the sun doesn't shine, becuase i was now a fully fledged PBm coach.  We could have a satellite tour like your tennis Norm!!
We can only daydream!

Man that would be a dream come true! Even as something lame like a college LB coach or something LOL!
AY has already shown potential to be the most enjoyable league ever, all the interaction with other coaches is really making it very enjoyable and I hope it will achieve my desired goal of making the league entertaining enough for the bottom half of the league to stay in, i always thought dropouts tainted PBM a little.
Am so glad all these great guys have joined in the last 6 months!

Interesting seeing how you manged to recuit a lot of guys from the Victorian Gridiron league.  I got 'suckered' in when Norm did a little article titled "PBM-not just a game but a way of life" in a long since defunct 'Australian Gridirn Gazette'.  Norm went into deep detail that he basically had no real life other than attacking his postman every day for a game of pretend gridiron.  His days of planning and then rceieving the game only for his family to believe their beloved Norm had gone off the deep end when his beloved Houston Oilers scored the go ahead vs the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, wiining something like 27-24 on the final play of the game.  The first time i read the artcle i thought Norm must have been some weirdo and not the lovable 'medium paced' GM we all come to cherish.  
Funny thing is that little article grabbed me, adn i can remember nearly all of it some 13 and a bit years later.  i became that man that tried to describe the game to family and friends who looked at me puzzled and suggested that there maybe something in the cookie i was nibbling.  Finally i met a weedy, big talking kid Alex Coombe, who when i coached him in american football thought that his coach should stop rambling about his glory years as a player and put his money where his mouth was.  But boy did the kid impress me with his can do attitude and willingless to learn, then and only then did i feel i could introduce him to the nerdy world of PBM sports.  Just picture Karate Kid, except i didn't own a car for the pupil to wash.  he fell in love with it, and so began a wonderful mateship enhanced by PBM delights.
So Stormin, after your cheesey little article, PBM has become a Flesfader way of life and it shows no wilting.  Its not the be all and end all, but is one of the small sweet joys of life!
Time for another malibu me thinks!  

I was only weedy back then compared to the healthy beer belly, that Brett would call a "gamer's gut"!


The ealy days were like:
DCF "I don't do it that way because you see..."
ANC "That's all well and good but I'm gonna try it with this in there..."
DCF "You are crazy, but it might work" shaking his head all the while.

I remember in our ultra ultra conservative NFLBC you incredulous that I called down and long from an I-form on 1st and deep.
You say I was unlucky to get bowl wins, I say I was lucky to get away with all the strange zany stuff I would call enought to even be in the running, and my big play potential and unpredictabilty was what made me always splutter out in the playoffs IMO.
Funny how the RC OR AY Eagles are the oposite of the TR DL BC Eagles of yesteryear!

I am laughing hard at the old pBM hyjinks!!
I remember thinkg you were plain crazy calling any deep bombs let alone from an I.  Incredulous was the word, but id din't want to discourage the aerial mayhem!! But boy it worked!  Its hard to beleive you had no OQB and still starred!! lol  Guess there was very little blitzing apart from the Cowboys and teams that did were feasted upon which discouraged others trying.  You being you read the rules from cover to cover and enjoyed surprising em with new plays.  nver forget the day you sprung the EV on me my jaw hit the ground

I tyried it out a few times during the season, kept it under my hat and pulled it out on 3rd down and was getting 7 8 12 yards to convert them all, I probably bonused ORO ORO EV EV or something, and always loved WRs and special teams returners in those days, I guess I was a little like the AY titans in some respects. The season I had 0 OQB in 1996 to go 15-1 I saw I was using B and S on 1st and deep alot, I didn't think I ever went that far into the run and shoot.
In those days SC was a killer plays, but this year I haven't seen one go for more than about 3 yards against my D...
ahh good times!