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Beaverton Barracuda
City: Beaverton, Oregon (Nike World Campus)
Owner: Chad Pfleiger ([email protected])
Note: this team was formerly known as the Cayuga Crocodiles
Chad is another graduate of Willamette
University. He owned a team in the original Matthews Football League, from which this
current league has descended. He now works at the Nike World Campus in Beaverton, Oregon.
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City: Canby, Oregon (Cougar Stadium)
Owner: J.D. Roth ([email protected]) [http://www.teleport.com/~jdroth]
Assistant Coach: Toto
Gates
![[Cougars' Logo]](http://www.teleport.com/~jdroth/Images/cougar.gif) J.D. has been playing fantasy football since 1989. He is commissioner of the
MFL and the only remaining original member of the league from which the current one has
descended. His teams have been quite successful over the years. Every one has made the
playoffs, more than half have reached the finals, and two have won the championship.
J.D. lives in his home town with his wife, Kris Gates, and two cats (Tintin and Toto).
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City: Santa Monica, California (stadium unknown)
Owner: Pam Dryden ([email protected]) [http://www.netvoyage.net/~dbsofw/nfl/]
![[Marauders' logo]](http://www.teleport.com/~jdroth/Images/marauders.gif) This year (1997) marks Pam's third year as an owner of a fantasy football
team. She has been an avid football fan for some years and couldn't pass up being an owner
on the Internet. She is a Software Engineer and loves Football, computers, and card games.
She has a collection of M:TG but has yet to play since she is unable to physically attend
any games. She hopes a way will be found to play over the internet someday.
Pam maintains a wonderfully complete collection of football links. For a central
clearing-house of football information, check out her web site.
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City: Arlington, Texas (stadium unknown)
Owner: Jeff Berger ([email protected])
Jeff is 32 years old, married, has one child, and has played fantasy football for some
time now. He, too, is a football fan, true and blue. He has a BA in English and is
currently getting ready to go for his Masters. He has no problem with trades and will
entertain all offers.
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City: College Station, Texas (stadium unknown)
Owner: Omar Aziz Hyder ([email protected])
Formerly known as the College Stations Heat. Relocations occurred prior to 1998
season.
Omar Hyder is the owner of the Bakersfield Heat. He says: "Probably as you can
tell from my team name, I'm going to COLLEGE." He is a petroleum engineering major at
Texas A&M. This is his third year playing in a fantasy football league like this, but
he learns quick. He wishes everyone luck--but not TOO much luck.
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City: Boonville, Indiana (Bobcats Stadium)
Owner: Jeffrey R. Scherrer ([email protected])
[http://www.evansville.net/~cham/]
Jeffrey is an Area Manager for a newspaper, married, and has two boys. He currently
runs the Your Call
Fantasy Football League and was the sole innovator of the new "three wide
receiver" rule the MFL implemented for 1996.
When an opponent's team visits Bobcat Stadium, the team has use of the visiting owners
luxury box. If the toilets overflow or the TV doesn't work don't hesitate to call
maintenance. Jeff's sure they will get on it right away unless they are busy washing his
truck or filling ketchup dispensers, etc. "Oh, when you leave could you please put
the metal folding chairs back in the storage room?"
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City: Tulsa, Oklahoma (stadium unknown)
Owner: Devin Barber ([email protected])
Devin says: "I am 27 years old and have been married to my amazingly perfect wife,
Kathy, for 3 1/2 years now. We live in my home town of Jacksonville Fla and are expecting
a baby boy to grace us with his arrival in late April. I work for Prudential Insurance as
a glorified paper pusher with aspirations to one day move up to being either a lacky or a
yes man (tough career choice there), and I fairly regularly serve as a guest or fill in
preacher for the congregation I attend and for others in North Florida and South Georgia.
I work on the Game Day Staff for the Jacksonville Jaguars, running the scoreboard and the
communications equipment between the coaches' booths and the field. In 1996, I and the
Orange Park Raiders' owner Chad Jackson hosted a local fantasy football radio show (Chad
and I have known each other since jr.. high, and in spite of that have refrained from
killing each other the whole time).
"Growing up in a town without an NFL team nearby, I became a Steelers fan as a
young crumb cruncher because of their tough style of play and Chuck Noll's leadership. I
also became a big fan of our two local college teams, the Seminoles and the Gators. With
the arrival of the Jaguars, all the others took a step back, and I quickly became a HUGE
Jags fan.
"I have played fantasy football since 1991, when I founded the Dream League (of
which I am still the commissioner), and have played since then in several other leagues,
including the PROGRAM -- a college football league Chad and I have established. I love to
make trades and interact with my fellow owners and have written my Senators begging for a
bill to introduced that would reduce the offseason for pro football down to 2 months: play
the Roman Numeral Game, have the draft and start camps. Obviously, I have way too much
time on my hands."
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City: Roseville, Minnesota (stadium unknown)
Owner: Erich W. Sachse ([email protected])
Send me some information, Erich!
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City: Clemson, South Carolina (stadium unknown)
Owner: Jay Marcoux
([email protected])
Jay is a friendly young fellow. He is very vocal, posting occasional press releases and
league-wide summaries. It is participation on this kind of level that helps make fantasy
leagues on the Internet successful. He currently runs the Carolina Football League.
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City: Ithaca, New York (stadium unknown)
Owner: Steve Schvaneveldt
([email protected])
Steve is 27 years old and recently completed graduate school at Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York. He has moved to Walla Walla, Washington with his wife and their
brand-new baby daughter, and has taken a position as a professor of physical chemistry at
Whitman College (so now you can call him Dr. Steve).
J.D. met Steve on-line via the Internet E-mail Chess Group. At one point during their
match, Steve had to take a break to go on vacation. We only learned later that he had
traveled from New York to spend time twenty miles away from where J.D. lives! Bizarre.
Steve's a very diplomatic fellow and a shrewd manager, and is NOT afraid to let the
commissioner hear his opinion. During his first year with fantasy football (1995), he took
his team to a division championship and the semi-finals.
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City: Phoenix, Arizona (stadium unknown)
Owner: Keith Sesler ([email protected])
Keith takes over the Polar Bear franchise, an expansion team during 1996. Due to a new
job, Keith will be moving the Polar Bears to Phoenix and renaming them the Scorpions.
Keith previously managed the Southgate Wolverines. He sold that team, however, at the end
of the 1996 season to Mark Davis and the team became the Virginia Beach Uprising. When the
Polar Bears became available, Keith snapped them up.
Keith Sesler had been working for the Drug Enforcement Administration as a supervisor
in the Asset Forfeiture Group. However, upon his completion of his MBA from the University
of Michigan, he accepted a position as a Project Planner with AlliedSignal Aerospace in
Phoenix, Az. Keith is married, with two children.
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City: Columbus, Ohio (stadium unknown)
Owner: Brian Bailey
([email protected])
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City: Washington, D.C. (Nightstick Park)
Owner: Bryan Boehringer ([email protected])
Bryan is another native Oregonian; his home town is just outside of Eugene, home of the
University of Oregon. J.D. and Bryan met at Willamette University. Though he didn't participate in the first year of
the Matthews Football League (in 1989), he did join in for the second and third. Bryan's
"BO KNOWS" team was narrowly defeated in the championship his first year in the
league.
He returned to join the CFL in 1995 and now has an expansion team in the re-born MFL.
After graduating from Willamette in 1993, Bryan moved back East to work in Washington,
D.C. He currently works in the offices of Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield. Senator Hatfield
is retiring this fall, so Bryan will be moving back to Oregon (placing four of the MFL
owners in Oregon and another nearby in Walla Walla, Washington).
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City: Erkelenz, Germany (stadium unknown)
Owner: Michael Meskes ([email protected])
Michael is from Germany and a computer scientist. He's 31 years old, two children and
has played fantasy football with some success for 5 years now. His favorite NFL team might
easily be seen in his roster and his draft picks. Hmm...Could it be San Francisco?
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![[Raiders' Logo]](http://www.teleport.com/~jdroth/Images/raiders.jpg) City:
Jacksonville, Florida (Biletnikoff Field)
Owner: Chad Jackson ([email protected]) [http://www.unf.edu/~tjacks2/]
Chad, a 1996 graduate of the University of North Florida, is in his third year as the
assistant sports information director at UNF. He is also in his third year of running the
matrix board at Alltel Stadium for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
A seven-year fantasy football veteran, Chad and his friend Devin run the Dream League fantasy league that has
been around since 1991.
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 City:
Virginia Beach, Virginia (stadium unknown)
Owner: Mark Davis ([email protected])
Previously known as the Southgate Wolverines. Owner Keith Sesler now with the
Phoenix Scorpions handed over the reigns to this franchise in 1997.
Personal information to be added soon (I hope).
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