If you would like to know more about how fantasy football got started, this is a great movie.  Its about the start of fantasy baseball, but really the start of all fantasy sports.  Back in 1979 some friends got together and came up with a game they called rotisserie league baseball.  Back then there was no internet and all the scores had to be done by newspaper and pencel, it brought back alot of memories of how I would do the scores for our league when we started in 1995.  Anyway a fun little documentary.

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Silly Little Game

Directed by Adam Kurland and Lucas Jansen

Fantasy Sports is estimated to be a $4 billion industry that boasts over 30 million participants and a league for almost every sport imaginable. But for all this success, the story of the game’s inception is little known. The modern fantasy leagues can be traced back to a group of writers and academics who met at La Rotisserie Francaise in New York City to form a baseball league of their own: The Rotisserie League. The game quickly grew in popularity, and with the growing use and attractiveness of the Internet, the “founding fathers” never foresaw how their creation would take off and ultimately leave them behind. Innovative filmmakers Adam Kurland and Lucas Jansen will chronicle the early development and ultimate explosion of Rotisserie Baseball, and shine a light on its mostly unnoticed innova