Footballguys Staff Bio: Bob Magaw
Age: 46
Birthplace: Pasadena, CA
Education: CSUN, Philosophy
Occupation: Sales
Hometown: SoCal
Family: Nearing 13th anniversary and blessed with an 11 year old son.
Years playing fantasy football: 15+
Favorite FF smack talk: I try and let my teams do the talking.
Years writing about fantasy football: I guess a while, since I can no longer remember exactly.
Favorite FBG feature: Impossible to pick just one. Not necessarily in order... Bloom's Rookie Top 100 (I favor IDP Dynasty leagues), Bob Henry and Aaron Rudnicki's weekly Upgrade columns for offense and defense, the in-season Round Table, anything on IDP by Jene Bramel, stats by Doug Drinen and David Dodds, and FBG's annual magazine/site Value Play article.
Organized football experience: Played other sports as a prep, primarily basketball and track.
Favorite NFL team: Rams
Favorite college team: USC (Trojans)
Favorite fan moment: Rams winning the '99 Super Bowl, SHOW TIME-era Lakers, the Wooden Dynasty, USC Football circa McKay, Robinson & Carroll, Kirk Gibson's miracle walk off home run in the '88 World Series.
Favorite player of all time: Offense - Jim Brown, Walter Payton, Earl Campbell, Eric Dickerson, Barry Sanders, Defense - Deacon Jones, Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, Mike Singletary and Ronnie Lott.
NFL rule(s) I would change if I could: OT
Favorite movie(s): Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Vertigo, Notorious, Out of the Past, Thief of Bagdad, El Cid, Goldfinger, Leone's Dollars Trilogy and Once Upon a Time in America, Quatermass and the Pit, 2001, Clockwork Orange, The Godfather (I & II), Marathon Man, Sorceror, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blade Runner, Manhunter, To Live and Die in L.A., Total Recall, Fifth Element, L.A. Confidential, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (I & II), LOTR and the Matrix Trilogies, Baraka, Memento, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Big Lebowski, Old School, 300, The Fall, Iron Man
Favorite musical genres/albums/artists: Miles, Coltrane, Larry Young, Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters, John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Tony Williams Lifetime, Jan Hammer, Sun Ra, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Bruford, ELP, Rush, Dream Theater, Steely Dan, Zappa, Hendrix, Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, Grateful Dead, Tangerine Dream, James Brown, Sly Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Donald Byrd, Roy Ayers, The Meters, Charles Earland, Melvin Sparks, Funk, Inc., Lee "Scratch" Perry, Bob Marley, Eno, Fripp, Vangelis, Steve Roach, Laswell, Buckethead, Hiram Bullock, Kazumi Watanabe, Bach, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Aaron Copland, Steve Reich, Miklos Rozsa, Ennio Morricone
What I read: Fiction: Hesse, Camus, Cormac McCarthy, Bukowski, Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Richard Morgan, William Goldman, Trevanian, Michael Crichton, James Ellroy, Alan Moore. Non-fiction: Bhagavad Gita, Dhammapada, generalists and inter-disciplinary thinkers such as Roger von Oech, E.F. Schumacher, Gregory Bateson, Kenneth Boulding, Eric Jantsch, Ernst Cassirer, Arthur Koestler, Malcolm Gladwell and cognitive scientists like Howard Gardner, Douglas Hofstadter, Marvin Minsky, Steven Pinker, Terrence Deacon.
Hobbies: Fantasy Football, reading, writing, music, movies, travelling with family, Belgian Ales.
Favorite TV show(s): 24, Heroes, Lost, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, Outer Limits, Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Get Smart, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Miami Vice, The Dave Chappelle show.
Least favorite household chore: What is a household chore?
Dream job: Pushing the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence to help make breakthroughs in medical research, making Cognitive Science and the study of brain/mind more rigorous.
Quote: "The universe speaks in patterns" - Roger Von Oech (from Heraclitus - played for Pre-Socratics), "Luck is the residue of design" - Branch Rickey (Brooklyn Dodgers GM - integrated baseball), "Winning is our business" - Bill Parcells (future HoFer).
Parting thoughts: Hot Rod Your Head With Footballguys.com!
