CB Posse Fantasy Football League: June 2015

Monday, June 22, 2015

The Caggiano

Since the inception of the CBPFFL in 1993, the NFL has gone through an incredible amount of transformation. Let's take a quick journey in the way-back machine to the age of Jerry Rice and Thurman Thomas...

1993

There were no NFL teams in Jacksonville or Charlotte named after pussycats.

Baltimore had no Ray Lewis, no Ray Rice, no Ravens, and its only Super Bowl said "Colts."

The Titans actually won their division, but they were called the Oilers and lived in Houston (I said Titans, not Texans dummy).

Kurt Warner was a senior at Northern Iowa, preparing to go undrafted and bag some groceries. The Rams had one more season in Los Angeles.

His brief football career over, Bo Jackson still knew baseball, and the Raiders still knew LA too...neither was true one year later.

Dan Snyder was just some advertising pimp no one had heard of, and Washington basked in the glow of the '91 Super Bowl, the last major championship to call the nation's capital home.

Well, just as NFL television contracts have quadrupled in the last two decades, so has the CBPFFL. The trophy needed commensurate revamping as well.

Our new improved trophy now resides in New York, a testament to Jason’s second championship in three years. Congrats, sir.

I was publically rooting for runner-up Kellie. Now, young Jack wants to co-manage a team next season. Will the Caggiano dynasty put their name on the trophy? Or will it be you?

History of the League

In the fall of 1991, six young boys entered the hallowed halls of the Banfield Academic Center to embark upon a journey that would make them into men. They were lead by the eponymous Carl Brown and his obsession with Dennis Hopper. His group, which gathered each day in their private, brick-walled alcove, consisted of Steven Caggiano, James Pickard, Sahil Tak, Hank Zakroff, and Murat Zincir. Though other people drifted in and out, this was the core of the entity that would come to be known as the CB Posse.

CB Posse FF officially began in 1993. The early years of the league would be dominanted by Murat and Pickard, who took the trophy three time each. It wasn't until the seventh year of CB Posse FF that this dynamic duo of NFL knowledge failed to capture first place. Sadly, in 1999, as the Posse members finished college, only four owners played, and, due to lack of interest, the league would begin a decade long hibernation.

In 2009, Pickard asked Hank whether he would be interested in getting the league back together. After an emphatic "YES!" from his friend, Pickard made some phone calls and the league was reborn like a glorious phoenix from the ashes. The 21st Century has revolutionized FF into a more competitive monster. CB Posse FF went completely digital, and unless you can navigate the nearly endless amounts of NFL information available on the internet, you don't have a chance. Sahil would emerge as the dominant force, and he destroyed the league for back-to-back championships.

21st Century CB Posse FF has seen significant expansion. Murat and Pickard have lured several local friends into the ranks. Murat's New York crew has been dominant, consistently finishing near the top, and even claiming several championships. CB Posse FF has also become multi-generational, as young Jack Caggiano has boldly followed his parents' footsteps. Even the trophy underwent massive expansion, and is renamed The Caggiano.