Football message boards in the 80's?

[DaNewGuy]

Forgive my ignorance but I had no clue people were talking on boards in the mid 80's. Here's a post of a guy explaining how the Pats are gonna defeat Chicago in the Super Bowl dated 86. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/net.sport.football/MUAb4NqwwFk. Sorry for the sloppy formatting but I'm at work so go here and look around https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/net.sport.football

[DaNewGuy]

> On offense the PAT'S VETERAN offensive
> LINE will completely dominate the BEAR'S linemen,
> who include a Patriot's reject and a ROOKIE
> from Clemson. The Pats will play an extremely
> boring RUN RUN RUN offense and will only pass on
> 2nd and 2. The Patriots will be able to RUN on
> the BEARS. People will suddenly remember why
> the Pat's offensive line is so highly regarded,
> just as they were reminded last week against
> Miami that you don't throw in Raymond Clayborn's
> area.
>
LMAO

[Easy 6]

Man, he had to have been a HARDCORE nerd to have been on message board in 1986

[suzzer99]

I believe they were called newsgroups back then.

[DaNewGuy]

Here's a gem from a Raiders fan talking about Todd Marinovich. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!searchin/rec.sport.football.pro/Todd$20marinovich/rec.sport.football.pro/Q3t7Ii3Sb6o3/10/92cor...@vax.sonoma.edu
The future for the Raiders hangs on three young men.
Nick Bell-Scary, if the Raiders use him as their number one back he would
pound the defense silly. If Roger Craig could come back to form
this would be a great duo. Marcus Allen, although it hurts to
say it, is getting old and worn from many years of
extensive use.

Todd Marinovich- He showed heart and determination last season. He has
potential to become a great QB. Unlike Tesaverde and
George, Marinovich **HAS** an offensive line in front
of him to give him protection. The Raiders need to make
him the starter this season.

Raghib Ismail- If he returns and plays for the Raiders he would help the
aging Raider recieving corps. Tim brown and Raghib Ismail
will be the future for the Raiders.


Nick Bell, Todd Marinovich, Raghib Ismail and Tim Brown, all young
and all with great talent. The Future of the Raiders looks good.

[siberian khatru]

I was on a Chiefs newsgroup in the mid-90s. There was a regular poster there named Ray who always argued that what the Chiefs needed was Mike Ditka as coach.

[Hammock Parties]

trolling, trolling never changes

[DaNewGuy]

lil Chiefy gives u a rundown of our home field advantage 12/13/97Edward Hernan

Like many of my fellow Chiefers I am sick and tired of the BS
surrounding the Chiefs past futility in the play-offs. Save for Marty,
Derrick and few others, this years Chiefs team bears little resemblance
to past teams. Never before have the Chiefs had an offense as "potent"
as this year. Gone are the days of a conservative 3yds and a cloud of
dust. Add to this fact that the Chiefs have undoubtedly the fastest
team defense in the league and one can see the reasons for our optimism.

I can't believe the Dolphans want to play the Chiefs, especially in
Arrowhead. They are merely confused about past success they have had at
the Chiefs expense. What they fail to realize (or cleverly hide) is
that Miami's success has come in Miami!!! not Arrowhead.

As for the Steelers, thay are 0-1 in Arrowhead in the playoffs and
Denver has never played KC in Arrowhead during the playoffs.

Hearing week after week about Marty's futility in the playoffs got me
wondering. I reviewed the Chiefs playoff record since 1990 and found an
interesting STAT or two.

1990 Chiefs lose to Dolphins in 1st round in Miami
1991 Chiefs beat Raiders in 1st Round in KC lose to Buffalo in Buffalo
in 2nd round
1992 Chiefs lose to SD in 1st round in SD
1993 Chiefs beat Pitt in 1st round in KC, beat Houston in 2nd round in
Houston and lose to Buff in AFC Champ game in Buff
1994 Chiefs lose to Miami in 1st round in Miami
1995 Chiefs lose to Indy in KC
The result is merely this:

The Chiefs have played a total of 9 playoff games (more than the other 3
contenders) in which they are 3-6.
Of the 9 games 6 have been on the road 3 have been in KC.
The Chiefs are 2-1 at home and 1-5 on the road.

Using the stats above it doesn't take a "rocket scientist" to figure out
the value of homefield to the Chiefs. Add to the mix that the results
above were posted by Chief teams of "lesser" talent and a conservative
offense. You can readily see the optimism the Chief fans have regarding
the team this year.

Taking a further look, I examined the playoff records since 1990 of the
Steelers, Dolphins and Bronco's.

Miami - 3-5 3-1 in Miami and 0-4 on the road (Tidbit: haven't won a
road playoff game in the Marino era 1984-1996)
Pitt - 4-4 4-2 in Pitt and 0-2 on the road
Denver - 1-3 1-1 in Denver and 0-2 on the road

Gee, fancy that! The 3 contenders to the Chiefs this year are a
combined 0-8 on the road since 1990. Now I realize I set myself up to
be chided that each of these teams has different personnel than the past
and that would be correct. My point is that it is extremely difficult
to win on the road and I like the Chiefs chances this year if we secure
HFA (save the fluke in KC in '95 and Denver in '96). Indy is a
non-entity and Jax
will be hard pressed to repeat last year.

I like our chances this year! None of these teams scares me, especially
playing in a Sea of Red in Arrowhead.

Ed Hernan
Chiefs in '97

[DaNewGuy]

I was on a Chiefs newsgroup in the mid-90s. There was a regular poster there named Ray who always argued that what the Chiefs needed was Mike Ditka as coach.

Hmm vaguely remember reading some posts from
95-96 from a Chiefs fan saying they needed To get Ryan away from Arizona LMAO

[displacedinMN]

Not many had computers or internet at that point.

https://planetjan.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/shall_we_play_a_game__by_newsaint.jpg?w=300&h=188

[suzzer99]

My newsgroup habits:

alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
take nap

No time for football.

[KChiefs1]

I had a Commodore 64 in 1984.




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[KChiefs1]

I had a Commodore 64 in 1984.

Played a tank game & flew a plane simulation. Didn't have internet access.



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[suzzer99]

I had a C64 with a 300 baud modem that I upgraded to 1200 baud and felt like a speed demon. We got free long distance codes and would call BBSs all over the country and trade pirated C64 games. Then I opened my own BBS and for a while had the best game selection in the KC area.

Glory days.

[Kiimo]

I still wonder how many of you I used to argue with on the KC Star's comment section in the late 90s.

[DaFace]

To me, it's almost more amazing that newsgroups still exist.

[JoeyChuckles]

Back in 1988 they had to mail in their post to the newspaper and then wait for others to reply the following week.

[suzzer99]

I still wonder how many of you I used to argue with on the KC Star's comment section in the late 90s.

Those were good times.

[Kiimo]

There was an insane argument going on the write-in section of the Overland Park Sun about what kind of car would Jesus drive. You can't believe the fervor with which those OP moms wrote scathing letters.

Then someone won the whole thing by quoting Acts 15:25

"It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one Accord"

[KChiefs1]

I still wonder how many of you I used to argue with on the KC Star's comment section in the late 90s.



You were a dumbass back in the day...glad some things never change.


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[Deberg_1990]

I remember the Meltdown on CP back in 1989


"Why Derrick Thomas when Broderick Thomas still on the board????"

"He's a maxed out player!!""

[KChiefs1]

I remember the Meltdown on CP back in 1989





"Why Derrick Thomas when Broderick Thomas still on the board????"



"He's a maxed out player!!""



I remember those arguments with some Chiefs fans back in the day. Of course they were also Husker fans too.


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['Hamas' Jenkins]

Some of the earliest people communicating on the Internet were academics talking about pro wrestling in the late 80s.

[Rain Man]

I still wonder how many of you I used to argue with on the KC Star's comment section in the late 90s.

I'm still upset that they deleted my thread about how quickly people would resort to cannibalism in a catastrophe. It was a good topic that deserved more participation.

[Ming the Merciless]

I believe they were called newsgroups back then.

in the mid 80's most likely a bulletin board (BBS)

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Clay trolled from the womb. He mind controlled his mother to do his dirty work.

[Nickhead]

in the mid 80's most likely a bulletin board (BBS)

i was gonna say. around 95-96, i belonged to 'metropolis bbs', i think it was owned at the time by the pitch. not sure.

it was all DOS.

i recall as well, there were meet ups at king arthurs pool hall in lawrence.

i cant believe you got me thinking about this. there is more on the net about metropolis than i imagined:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/metro.gifhttp://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tagbbs-sysopview.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/2lhive/anyone_use_metropolis_bbs_or_metro_bbs_as_it_was/

did ya see, not one LOL. wasn't it /me LOL, and it was say 'nickhead laughs out loud'? as lazy as i get, i know if i didnt have to bow to peer pressure, i would use proper english :D

[HemiEd]

I was on an AOL Chiefs discussion group in the mid through late 90s.

In the 80s I had bought my daughters a commodore 64 but had no idea how use it myself.

[Al Bundy]

I do remember that the first Buccaneers MB type of thing I belonged to was in 1992. It was news group type of thing run by the Buccaneer magazine.

[Bob Dole]

Not many had computers or internet at that point.

https://planetjan.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/shall_we_play_a_game__by_newsaint.jpg?w=300&h=188

If you weren't at a university or a government facility, there was no Internet. There was Fidonet and Altnet and a few other smaller "nets", but it was all local, dial-up based and the messages in echoes were transferred to a hub in the middle of the night when long distance rates were lowest.

n00bs

[listopencil]

I didn't really get into the internet until about '95 I think. I did have a work e-mail in the early 90's though. I do recall my boss trying to get me to take a cell phone paid for by the company and I wouldn't do it.

[Dartgod]

Not one "Your and idiot", not one AIDS tree, AIDS fire, or antifreeze reference.

Amateurs.

[Monty]

Not one "Your and idiot", not one AIDS tree, AIDS fire, or antifreeze reference.

Amateurs.

+1

[InChiefsHeaven]

Not one "Your and idiot", not one AIDS tree, AIDS fire, or antifreeze reference.

Amateurs.

We've come a long way baby...

[displacedinMN]

on the farm there is still massive lack of internet choice.

Choices are:
dial up that runs at 36k
Verizon jet pack- Limeted data
Satellite-issues

Shortwave does not reach it yet.

[notorious]

Still had to use analog porn back then.

[Kiimo]

You were a dumbass back in the day...glad some things never change.


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You never said anything worth remembering, glad some things never change.

[DaNewGuy]

Still had to use analog porn back then.

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[Gonzo]

Holy shit, I think I found the first smilie ever used in a post about the Pats offensive lineman Halloway getting surgery on his pinkey finger in 1986.


Did he injure it doing coke. SNORT! :-)

[FishingRod]

I still wonder how many of you I used to argue with on the KC Star's comment section in the late 90s.

You were probably a grbacker

[siberian khatru]

Still had to use analog porn back then.

It was easier to watch the scrambled Cinemax signal coming through my set-top cable box with rows of buttons, waiting for those 1-2 seconds when it stabilized and you could see tit.

[Kiimo]

You were probably a grbacker



Screw that I hated Grbac and was one of the people screaming in the streets the name "Rich Gannon".

I remember some dude on those forums being insane for Todd Haley. Ugh what a nightmare that was.

[Amnorix]

Wow, really? I was part of some online discussions regarding the Patriots starting in '93 and thereafter. I remember it vividly because the Patriots had hired Bill Parcells, and his first year wasn't that great. Big debates over Bledsoe or Rick Mirer, and whether Bill Parcells was really that good of a coach or was it just the talent he had on defense with those Giant teams and stuff like that.

Damn that's a long time ago now...


I was just now speaking with our youngest employee -- a 22 year old recent college graduate and rabid Pats fan, telling her about the "Border War" between the Patriots and the Jets when Parcells went to the Jets, then stole Curtis Martin, and the bizarre resignation of Belichick as "HC of the NYJ" and our paying a first round pick for him. She had zero clue about all that history, but no surprise -- she was just a kid then.

[big nasty kcnut]

I was on a nfl chat room in late 90s. Used to argue with morons about the chiefs and stuff.

[cdcox]

My newsgroups were:

alt.rec.bicycles
alt.rec.pyrotechnics

100% lurker

[Randallflagg]

Back in the 80s - they were called "BBS" Bulletin Board system. Most concerned pirating games and crap like that. Few had anything about sports.

[Rain Man]

Not one "Your and idiot", not one AIDS tree, AIDS fire, or antifreeze reference.

Amateurs.


Back then I think it wasn't AIDS. It was "God's curse on homosexuals". Did you try searching on that?

[Gonzo]

It was actually called GRID. Gay related immune deficiency.

So... Go die in a Grid-tree fire.

[carcosa]

Y'all old as fuck smh

[Baby Lee]

Holy shit, I think I found the first smilie ever used in a post about the Pats offensive lineman Halloway getting surgery on his pinkey finger in 1986.

Close

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html

[Rain Man]

Y'all old as **** smh

Go run into a tree infected with a mystery illness that appears to be of African origin and is running rampant in the homosexual quarters of San Francisco.

[DaNewGuy]

Go run into a tree infected with a mystery illness that appears to be of African origin and is running rampant in the homosexual quarters of San Francisco.

LMAO

[Easy 6]

It was easier to watch the scrambled Cinemax signal coming through my set-top cable box with rows of buttons, waiting for those 1-2 seconds when it stabilized and you could see tit.

Ha! there was a period of several years back then where my buddies and I could pry the front off the box, and if you licked your thumb and drug it across a couple different electrodes at the same time, you could watch all of those channels without interruption

But cable companies eventually got wise and changed the box :~(

[burt]

Y'all old as fuck smh

Like we didn't notice.....

[big nasty kcnut]

I'm not old I'm better then you!

[siberian khatru]

Ha! there was a period of several years back then where my buddies and I could pry the front off the box, and if you licked your thumb and drug it across a couple different electrodes at the same time, you could watch all of those channels without interruption

But cable companies eventually got wise and changed the box :~(

Wow, I've never heard that before. Wish I had known that back in the day!

[WilliamTheIrish]

Ha! there was a period of several years back then where my buddies and I could pry the front off the box, and if you licked your thumb and drug it across a couple different electrodes at the same time, you could watch all of those channels without interruption

But cable companies eventually got wise and changed the box :~(

Better than that, I invited the cable guy in for a beer. He gave me the filter to unlock the entire box.

Free HBO/MAX for years.

[Dunerdr]

I didn't even know that al gore had invented the Internet in the 80s but I was born November 89 so.. I'm being serial.