Welcome to the FMFL.

In the summer of 1988 I was working for an advertising agency in Phoenix and waiting for football season to arrive.One August afternoon my art director buddy Ken and I were brainstorming at a local watering hole and noticed Miller Beer table tents all around promoting something called the Miller Lite fantasy football league.

I went to a B. Dalton bookstore and found a book about fantasy football.  It told us how to form our own 'Franchise Football League" and how to draft and score to create league standings and winners and losers. 

On the day before the first NFL game of the '88 season we held the inaugural draft for the Ken's Sports Bar Fantasy Football League.  It was held at Ken's Sports Bar, housed in Ken's un -airconditioned garage in Tempe, Arizona and we haven't missed a season since.

But the Commish is a race fan first and foremost.  So by January of 1989 I had created the Fantasy Motorsports Franchise League game, following NASCAR Winston Cup racing, CART IndyCars and Formula 1.  Five other buddies and I held our draft, completed our first season and we haven't missed a year since either.

In the last 20 years we went from a six-team draft league with pencils and notebooks to online pick 'em game sites with tens of thousands of players.  

Our original racing game, the MenWithGuts FMFL  has grown into a seven-series game that follows the three NASCAR series, F1, IndyCar and both the ALMS and Rolex Sports Car series.  This game is now the Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain Super 7 Sweep on SPEEDtv and they give away very cool prizes.

Since 2004 we've operated the You Pick 'Em Challenge game for Roush Fenway Racing, a seven-division contest that follows RFR's teams and drivers exclusively.  Our Roush Fenway game also boasts some pretty good prizes, like a day at the races with all the Sprint Cup drivers to the league champion. 

2010 also marks our seventh year of running perhaps the biggest NHRA fantasy drag racing game on the Internet.  From 2004-2008 the game was sponsored by CSK Auto Parts and eventually recognized as the Official Game of NHRA Drag Racing. 

More games are in the pipeline so we can eventually extend FMFL invitations to fans who follow ARCA racing , motorcycles, street sports car racing and maybe even USAC and World of Outlaws short track racing. 

Stay tuned.  And thanks for your support. 

The Commish