SWDC Guestbook: Introduce Yourself

[D-Unit]

Whether you're new to the forum or not, feel free to tell us about yourself.

Ideas:

Name:
Age:
Hometown:
Favorite Sports Team(s):
School/Occupation:
Life Story:
How you found the site:
...Share pics!

[eaglesalltheway]

Originally Posted by D-Unit

Whether you're new to the forum or not, feel free to tell us about yourself.

Ideas:

Name:
Age:
Hometown:
Favorite Sports Team(s):
School/Occupation:
Life Story:
How you found the site:
...Share pics!

This is a great idea, I'll get to this when I have some time, but an idea I have is how they came to know football and what makes them a fan of the sport and their team... Favorite players, coaches, etc.

[TitanHope]

I had an idea for the same concept for us all to get to know each other more in the Titans forum, so I'll start off the profiles and maybe add some questions! :D

Name: Thomas Winstead
Age: 22
Hometown: Chattanooga, TN
Favorite Sports Team(s): Tennessee Titans
School/Occupation: Student

Life Story: I've lived in Tennessee all my life, from Chattanooga to Memphis. I have an IQ of 130 which only like 2.2% of the world's population has, but I also have ADD so I think it balances out. I have a fairly big family of six - my mom, dad, and three sisters. Yup, three sisters, so I'm stuck swimming in the estrogen ocean, so a predominantly male oriented site has been awesome for the past...damn, has it really been four and a half years? I've been a Titans fan since they've moved to Tennessee, but wasn't really into football like I am now until about '05-'06. Perhaps the most unique thing about me is that I'm a cancer survivor, and have been in remission for about 9 years now. I was huge into playing sports before I was diagnosed, but since then, I haven't been able to play due to the extent I've had my leg worked on (it was a bone tumor in the left tibia), so writing talking about it has really become something I love. I'm hoping to one day become a writer and maybe even own my own site, so I'm going to college to earn a degree in Journalism. Living at home while I go to college, but I'm looking to break free from the nest here fairly soon when I transfer to a university.
How you found the site: Researching the 2006 NFL Draft when the Titans were likely going to be picking a QB, which made it a much more important pick and was something I wanted to look into harder. I've researched the NFL Draft before, even visiting this site I believe, but it was more of a casual thing. For the eventual VY pick, I registered on the forums, and I have been here ever since - eventually being passed the Titans Team Leader torch and being able to lead the best group of Titans fans on the net! Not to mention the community as a whole is one of the most knowledgeable around the net. You have fans from every team, so there's a checks and balance system to maintain objectivity (which is something about team only sites that I hate), and also fans of collegiate football. To know your stuff on a NFL Draft website, you have to know your stuff on the collegiate side and professional side, so it's awesome being able to come to one place where you can talk extensively about both sides. A new poster will absolutely double his knowledge of football after posting actively and engaging the community on this forum for 6 months.
What got me hooked on the NFL Draft: Actually, Madden. I would play the Franchise mode and use the Titans and go through the actual games and stuff, but then I'd get to the Offseason mode with Free Agency and the NFL Draft, which for whatever reason I enjoyed A LOT. It got to the point where I played the game not to control the Titans, but to control the Titans's Offseason. I'd simulate most of the season just so I could get to the next Offseason. Drafting players, bringing it/re-signing veterans, and basically forming my own roster was sooo much fun. So I think it was natural for me to take to SWDC because it was a site based upon the NFL Offseason.
Words of advice to new members: My advice, first and foremost, is to try not to be the "smartest guy in the room." Doing that will eventually backfire when it inevitably comes when a poster who is more knowledgeable than you are comes and makes you backup your words, so carry yourself like you know that you could be wrong. Too many new posters will come in a make this mistake, and those guys get sniffed out quick by the tenured members who from that point on take the poster's input with a grain of salt and ignore him for the most part. Still, I urge you to have an opinion, make posts, and involve yourself in debates. You'll learn much more that way, and as long as you're respectful to other posters and aren't stubborn, you'll be taken seriously and respected back. Not to mention, if you do know your stuff and you're a nice guy, it has the reverse effect of the "smartest guy in the room" poster. I think going about that in the way that I did helped me make friends and gave me a huge head start on establishing myself as a poster, which in turn helped me to get promoted to TL status after only being a forum member for less than two years. So in essence, "Walk softly but carry a big stick," and you'll be better off!

I'm still planning on a Titans Phonebook for the Titans forum, but now I'm gonna look unoriginal /sadpants!

[CC.SD]

I'm CCSD and I support pancakes over waffles.



I'm a grad student at SC/working PR professional, originally from SD, and root for the Chargers, Trojans, Lakers, Ducks, and when I can, Aztecs.

In my spare time I enjoy walks on the beach, boxing (taking up Judo soon too), obsessively reading about and talking football, getting hammered, playing Xbox, and beating off.

Once I won Dr. Pepper's '1 in 6 Wins' contest 8 times in a row which is statistically impossible. But they were all from the same vending machine which must have gotten a special shipment. I leave that part out usually.

[A Perfect Score]

Name: Rusty
Age: 21
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
Favorite Sports Team(s): Baltimore Ravens, New Jersey Devils
School/Occupation: Carleton University, Ottawa
Life Story: Pretty simple guy. Grew up in Canada, love movies, TV, books, music, etc. Played football my entire life. Been a consistent contributor to the site for a while, and IRC regular. Aspiring writer, in several mediums. And unlike CCSD, I support waffles over pancakes.

[UKfan]

Name: Ben
Age: 24 (Old here I think!)
Hometown: Gloucester, England
Favorite Sports Team(s): Liverpool FC, Leicester Tigers, Indianapolis Colts
School/Occupation: Graduate Training Scheme
Life Story: I'll fill this out fully at one point in the future, but as a kid growing up in the mean streets of Leicester, England, I had pretty much always been into football (soccer), playing for 10 years before going to University. Whilst at University of Warwick to study Mathematics (should I say Math for the vast majority of the audience here?? :P) I joined the Warwick Wolves American Football Team, playing Left Tackle in my rookie season and not giving up a sack, started to play Defensive End too before tearing up my knee, keeping me out of action for a year. At this time I started looking at the NFL Draft and Google led me to this wonderful site and all of the forum inhabitants I learn from here... enjoy chatting to some of the folks on here on football (have educating me massively on college football and the NFL) and other topics too such as MMA, soccer etc... long may it continue!
How you found the site: Google, see above!

[Paul]

Name: Paul Mau
Age: 23
Hometown: Dallas
Favorite Sports Teams: Cowboys/Mavericks/Rangers
School/Occupation: University Of Texas At Arlington; Marketing Major
Life Story: Love my friends and family. Love music. Love movies. Love sports. Love Cheesecake.
How you found the site: Google

[The Dynasty]

Name: Corey
Age: 20
Hometown: Olean, New York
Favorite Sports Teams: Vikings, Yankees, Sabres
School/Occupation: Just got accepted into SUNY Fredonia and majoring in Business.
Life Story: Grew up in a small area and grew up loving sports from a young age. Played Soccer, Football, Basketball, and Baseball when i was growing up. In High School I wore mainly NFL jerseys everyday to school. Now I pretty much talk and hang out with family and friends.
How you found the site: I ended up using google to look Draft stuff and came across the site around the draft in 2006 but didn't notice there was a forum till later.

[tjsunstein]

Name: tjsunstein or TJ Sunstein, see what I did there?
Age: 19
Hometown: Cherry Hill, NJ
Favorite Sports Team(s): Green Bay Packers, Phildalphia Phillies, New Jersey Devils, Los Angeles Clippers, West Virginia Mountaineers, Florida State Seminoles
School/Occupation: Undecided Transfer Student
Life Story: My name is TJ and I like to party.
How you found the site: Googled Mock Draft, clicked the link, and never looked back.



Which one am I?

[D-Unit]

Name: Brennan Colt ;)
Favorite Sports Team(s): Dallas Cowboys, Orlando Magic, Texas Rangers, University of Hawaii, Florida State, USC
Life Story: Married at 23, 4 kids - all boys. Oldest in 2nd grade. Youngest 4 months. Family man. Religious. Dedicated sports fan. Found this site when I was 26 and haven't been able to break the addiction since. DC Forum Administrator.
How you found the site: Was at the beach one day, when a bottle washed up shore. In it contained a message that said, "Visit www.nfldraftcountdown.com for a good time". :)


Who wants my hat???

[RufusMcDaniel]

Name: G.C.
Age: 22
Hometown: Hamilton, Ontario
Favorite Sports Team(s): Tennessee Titans, Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Michigan Wolverines
School/Occupation: Mohawk College
Life Story: Well, just a typical guy who loves sports and eats bacon. Grew up playing hockey, soccer, tennis and basketball. Now, I can be found on the golf course more often than not.
How you found the site: When the Titans were selecting 6th back in 05, I searched around for mock drafts, found this place and always made this my draft site of choice. After reading the forums, I decided to finally join last year.

[D-Unit]

Originally Posted by tjsunstein

Which one am I?

I say the guy on the far left wearing the grass skirt. I remember you said you like to wear grass skirts. Don't deny it!!!

[tjsunstein]

Originally Posted by D-Unit

I say the guy on the far left wearing the grass skirt. I remember you said you like to wear grass skirts. Don't deny it!!!

Close D, close. All the way to the right. Wearing the pink lei. I thought for sure you'd get that. I do love grass skirts.

[Jimmy]

I'm Jimmy. I'm 19. I'm an enigma, and I choose to embrace it and keep it that way. Something notable about me is that I have a hot girlfriend that is out of my league.

http://tinyurl.com/25mvwx4

[D-Unit]

Originally Posted by Jimmy

I'm Jimmy. I'm 19. I'm an enigma, and I choose to embrace it and keep it that way. Something notable about me is that I have a hot girlfriend that is out of my league.

http://tinyurl.com/25mvwx4

She's cute and looks nice. Good job.

[D-Unit]

Originally Posted by CC.SD

I'm CCSD and I support pancakes over waffles.



I'm a grad student at SC/working PR professional, originally from SD, and root for the Chargers, Trojans, Lakers, Ducks, and when I can, Aztecs.

In my spare time I enjoy walks on the beach, boxing (taking up Judo soon too), obsessively reading about and talking football, getting hammered, playing Xbox, and beating off.

Once I won Dr. Pepper's '1 in 6 Wins' contest 8 times in a row which is statistically impossible. But they were all from the same vending machine which must have gotten a special shipment. I leave that part out usually.

No pic? You disappoint me.

French toast > Pancakes > Waffles. ;)

[Malaka]

Name: (Fotios) Philip Lolis
Age: 15
Hometown: Miami, FL
Teams: New York Giants, New York Yankees, New York Knicks, New York Rangers, Manchester United.
How I found this site?: Probably searching up mock drafts in google.
Life story: Originally from New York City, I lived there until I was 12 and then moved down here to Florida. My father is Greek which is where Fotios comes from and my mother is Russian. I love football and I am currently the ILB on my school's varsity team :) . I am young but I love to learn about the game, and I pride myself on being a student of the game; I hope to maybe even benefit from this on the field or further in life as a scout/analyst/journalist etc. I have been called the Josh Freeman of guidos, however I hope that growing out my hair has changed that, probably not.

[The Unseen]

Name: Andrew
Age: 18
Hometown: well I live in Saint Augustine, FL
Favorite Sports Team(s): Jacksonville Jaguars, Florida Marlins, University of Florida Gators
School/Occupation: just finished freshman year at the University of Florida
Life Story: I'll skip to the present. I like (watching) football, philosophy, linguistics, making up languages (known as conlanging...yeahhh), music, (watching) baseball, diet soda, and fapping. I'm a nerd and a loner but I roll with the punches.

How you found the site: Don't remember...probably when I was trying to find out more about the draft. I got hooked to the site for reasons outside of the draft, like the Off Topic forum, the NFL forum, and IRC. I'm still a draft dunce but that's because I don't pay as much attention to the things you have to know. I use this site to educate myself.

[Caddy]

Name: Troy Nicholson!
Age: 20
Hometown: Sydney Australia
Favorite Sports Team(s): Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sydney Roosters, Tottenham Hotspur
School/Occupation: Currently a Journalism student at the University of Technology in Sydney, but at the moment I am studying abroad at East Carolina University. I work as a casual at Oakley selling surfing/snowboarding/sunglasses stuff.
Life Story: Not much to tell really. I'm one of the few Australian posters around these boards. Love playing as many sports as possible and was in pretty much every sporting team all through high school. I finish University this year but definitely want to pursue more studies and hopefully come back to the States.
How you found the site: Can't remember at all.

Pic isn't working any more :(

[YAYareaRB]

Name: Puchi Lesu

Age: 21

Hometown: Laie, Hawaii

Favorite Sports Team(s): San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Jose Sharks, LSU Tigers, BYU Cougars, Newcastle Knights, Auckland Blues, Flyin' Fijian Rugby Team (RU 15s and 7s).

School/Occupation: Dixie State College in St George, Utah. Major: Communications. Playing football there.. I start in the fall.

Life Story: I played football for four years in high school and played two years at a junior college. Signed my letter of intent to Idaho State after my second year at the JC. Didn't qualify grades wise so I sat out a year to fix them up and still didn't qualify so I'm now gonna be playing at a Division 2 school.

I'm 21 and have a daughter who is almost 2. I'm still with the mother just in case you guys were wondering.

My life is not dull to say the least.

How you found the site: Tried to look up a scouting report about 3 years ago and stumbled upon the forums. I just kept coming back for more lol

[Mr. Goosemahn]

Name: Manuel Gutierrez

Age: 19

Hometown: Monterrey, Mexico

Favorite Sports Team(s): Steelers, Lakers, Real Madrid, Tigres, and I don't really follow baseball that much, but my grandfather is a Yankees fan and I guess I'm one too.

School/Occupation: Student

Life Story: Born in Monterrey and lived there all my life. Wasn't really into football that much until I turned 15. I became a Steelers fan because all my friends had a bet going on about who'd win the Superbowl, and I picked Pittsburgh. I watched two or three games at the end of the season, and I don't know why, I just liked them. They won all those games, sneaked into the playoffs, and beat the Seahawks in the Superbowl. Been an avid fan since then. Xbox live tag is Taquashaniqua (bad story...), and that's it.

How you found the site: Lurked for a couple months, joined Nov. 2007 and didn't post regularly until Pittsburgh drafted Rashard Mendenhall. I guess I was looking for Mock Drafts and info and stumbled upon the NFLDC community. Never left, and I don't plan to do so anytime soon.

[SloppyJoe]

Name: Benjamin Sobek

Age: 25

Hometown: Berlin, Germany

Favorite Sports Team(s):Tampa Bay Buccaneers and 1.FC Köln (German soccer team)

Life Story: as every german kid i grew up as a soccer fan and player. i was always a little bit bigger as my teammates ;). 1999 the Berlin Thunder (NFL Europe) were born and i suddenly i became a football fan. i went to the US on 2000 for the first time, i made two steps on american ground then i found a small buccaneers football on the ground. thats how i became a bucs fan.
i play football since 2002. since 2007 i'm also the offensive coordinator of our youth team.

How you found the site: google

[vikes_28]

Name............................

[StickSkills]

Name: Matthew Brady
Age: 18
Hometown: Military child, currently in Harrisburg, PA

Favorite Sports Team(s): Kansas City Chiefs, Was Nationals, no NBA, for college i like Miami (Hockey), PSU (Bball and Football), and Syracuse (Bball)

School/Occupation:Starting Penn State this summer

Life Story: I am an All-State team swimmer and state champion water polo player for my HS (still waiting to find out if I made All-American status in swimming), senior, on the school newspaper as photo editor, was the Public Relations chair for my school's THON, will be involved at PSU's THON.

How you found the site: Google

Sidenote: Obviously I'm into graphics, mostly wallpapers, so I have started my own "business" and website about it. SpreadHDGFX.com is the website. My work has been used by Penn State's Honors College for some of their publicity stuff.



Bottom far left kneeling, right in front of the female coaches.

[D-Unit]

Originally Posted by StickSkills

Name: Matthew Brady
Age: 18
Hometown: Military child, currently in Harrisburg, PA

Favorite Sports Team(s): Kansas City Chiefs, Was Nationals, no NBA, for college i like Miami (Hockey), PSU (Bball and Football), and Syracuse (Bball)

School/Occupation:Starting Penn State this summer

Life Story: I am an All-State team swimmer and state champion water polo player for my HS (still waiting to find out if I made All-American status in swimming), senior, on the school newspaper as photo editor, was the Public Relations chair for my school's THON, will be involved at PSU's THON.

How you found the site: Google

Sidenote: Obviously I'm into graphics, mostly wallpapers, so I have started my own "business" and website about it. SpreadHDGFX.com is the website. My work has been used by Penn State's Honors College for some of their publicity stuff.

If you want to be on our Graphics Team, we could use some volunteers.