For me, my friend group at the time was more into NBA until Sonics got sold in 2006. After that, we all started watching the Seahawks.

It certainly wasn't love at first sight but as we watched it regularly and started babbling into fantasy football, it became clear that I really enjoyed watching it and following it.

What about you buzzins?

Pretty much my whole life. When i was little everything was about hockey for me, but football was always a close 2nd and then my dad introduced me to fantasy football.
He would always be doing it with my uncles when i was a kid but he never let me play until the late 90's/early 2000's when espn started doing it online and thats when i really fell in love with the sport as a whole. Moving to california where football dominated hockey in terms of popularity definitely helped too.

still hasnt happened

Fell in love playing football as a kid, It's really unlike any other sport. You could do things on the field that would get you in deep shit off of it. The gridiron was a place to express that animal, and through adolescence gave me a strong sense of identity and community.

When I played I never watched it, and funny enough I only cared about NFL after playing a year of fantasy football on JSP. I had bet on the superbowl a year earlier in the forum and noticed that there was a FF league here and thought I'd try it out.

Now I know every offensive player in the league and most offensive prospects in the first 2 rounds of the draft, lol. True blue fantasy shark now BB.

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Senior year in high school, 2009.

Sophomore year in high school. 2004. Lol I had severe alcohol poisoning from downing a handle of smirnoff vodka my buddy's brother gave me at a sleepover. Friends didn't want my mom to find out so I stayed at his house all weekend as I recovered. Dude was a panthers fan so I watched the double overtime playoff game of panthers vs rams I believe it was. The excitement from that game really sparked my interest to start watching football weekly after that. Although being from upstate, ny and obviously watching the bills make the superbowl 4 times in my childhood, I remember glimpses of games with father, but thought football was just boring up until that panthers game. Wwf Attitude era spoiled with me sports entertainment as a kid. Would rather watch stonecold stunners instead of a pigskin flying around.

Prolly like 2000ish

First game I watched was Vikings vs Packers Monday night with my dad and mom. Dad cheered for the vikings being from minny, randy moss rookie year destroyed the packers. Been a fan ever since…. Damn 98’ season still the best team I’ve ever seen

when the bears beat the pats in da super bowl.

7th grade my first year playing middle school football i started getting interested in football.