Footballguys Staff Bio: David Dodds
Age: 45
Birthplace: Sacramento, CA
Education: USC (BS Industrial & System Engineering)
Occupation: Owner of Footballguys.com
Hometown: Foresthill, CA
Family: Divorced. I have a daughter Caitlin (will start high school in the fall) who now lives with me.
Years playing fantasy football: 22 years
Favorite FF smack talk: In about the 11th round, I announce finally I can draft based on my need now that my top 50 have been taken.
Years writing about fantasy football: I launched the first version of mrfootball.com on AOL 20 years ago.
Favorite FBG feature: Soon to be our RATE MY Team Future. It's a culmination of everything we do in the preseason at the site all rolled into the one most pressing question ....How good was my draft?
Organized football experience: Was the electrifying wide receiver on my 6th grade flag football team. Turned to skatboarding in middle and high school and only played football with friends when bored. Ran high school track and played tennis. Won 2 intramural flag football championships at USC.
Favorite NFL team: San Diego Chargers
Favorite college team: USC Trojans
Favorite fan moment: Watching 2007's wildcard playoff games in a 11 room Vegas house (that used to be a bordello) with our staff.
Favorite player of all time: Active player - LaDainian Tomlinson. Retired Player - Dan Fouts
NFL rule(s) I would change if I could: I think moving goal posts would add a lot of excitement to the kicking game (and make more teams go for it on 4th down).
Favorite movie(s): Shawshank Redemption, Clockwork Orange, Silence of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs. Generally anything with a lot of violence and some nudity is worth watching.
Favorite musical genres/albums/artists: Punk - NOFX, Bad Religion, Lag Wagon, Pennywise, Anti-Flag on most days. Folk - Casey Chambers, Tift Merritt on mellower days. Old School - Devo, Talking Heads, B-52s, Oingo Boingo
What I read: Poker strategy, mafia history, Carl Sagan, FF magazines, Scientific American, PC Magazine and lately lots of books / articles related to the stock market
Hobbies: Poker, Backgammon, Stock Market, Fantasy Football, Politics
Favorite TV show(s): Lost (by a wide margin), NFL Shortcuts, Entourage, Southpark, Family Guy, Bill Maher
Least favorite household chore: Laundry.
Dream job: I think I have it. I get paid to surf the internet, watch football and make up stuff. My commute is rolling out of bed. Find me a better job anywhere.
Quote: "The Fittest Shall Survive, yet the Unfit May Live" DEVO
Dream car: 1972 VW Bus painted black and pink with Good 'N' Plenty curtains, pink fuzzy steering wheel, sleeping arrangements + computer/DVD in the back. I would coat one of the side panels in dry erase and hang a marker and eraser so people could just leave me messages right on the bus.
Favorite Websites: Pandora, Jesusguys, Footballguys, wheatbackpennies.com, Pokerstars, Google Finance
Number of wheatback pennies in your collection: Holding steady at just under 75,000 wheatback pennies. They are going to be valuable I tell you...lol
Parting thoughts: My name is made up of 50% D's (David Dodds)
