An Abbreviated History of GT

by gallagher on Dec 15, 2008 12:15 PM CST Comment 36 comments

By Sean Gallagher

Here's the short version of how we came to be part of this great big, happy SB Nation family:

Step 1: Stupidly decide to start a fan-based unofficial program to sell at the home games of a last-place team.

Step 2: Set up a really sad little website about your hairbrained scheme.

Step 3: Get a bunch of great people to help you out; improve website and paper.

Step 4: Be amazed that people find the paper and the site to be entertaining; continue to press your luck.

Step 5: Get lucky and get asked to work with James Mirtle. Really, I mean who wouldn't trust this guy, right?

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The longer version? Well, let's just say that it's far too boring to spell out at this point. Maybe this summer when we're hurting for content we'll bore you with that.

We were able to bring over our archives from our old site, so feel free to kick around those to get an idea of what we're all about. Aso, feel free to lean on the regular commenters because, honestly, they've given us most of our good ideas anyway.

Speaking of our regular commenters, you guys should really like the new layout. Not only is there lots of great team information right here, but we have also been able to archive our old issues of the actual paper on the site.

Even better, you all have the opportunity to take over the site by using the FanPosts and FanShots that are on the right of the page. No need for a message board or for those crappy URL-only links from before. Actually, I'm a little bit afraid of what you're all going to do with those.

So, please test out the new widgets and gizmos and make yourself at home. Old guys help the new guys. As always, we appreciate all of your feedback.

And finally, because I promised it back in the post where we announced we were joining this crew, here's a little Minor Threat for you:

Notice how Ian's mic went out and the whole crowd sang all the words, making it a great concert? Yeah, I chose this one on purpose, because our readers and commenters are every bit as important to the site as those of us who have our names on it.

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change frightens me

by cold on Dec 16, 2008 12:02 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

also, Fuck Detroit.

by cold on Dec 16, 2008 12:03 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

fuck detroit x2

KAF919

by -DJ- on Dec 16, 2008 4:52 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Testing

Dude, where’s my car?

by HuntsvilleBlues on Dec 16, 2008 8:12 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Welcome, SLGT!

Great to have you onboard. Gonna have a blast. Anything I can do, let me know.

The Litter Box: Your SBNation Florida Panthers Blogging Colossus

by Donny Rivette on Dec 16, 2008 8:20 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Welcome

If you have any questions about the new toys feel free to drop me a line.

Also, Fuck Detroit.

Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.

by PPP on Dec 16, 2008 9:00 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

toasted ravioli?

it’s gonna take some getting used to. it’s not exactly bare bones like the other layout

by Dooks on Dec 16, 2008 9:52 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Change you can believe in?

hey sean, I thought you had said that after the switch we’d have to sign up again? But it let me right in. Interesting switch – I don’t know how I’m going to deal with actual statistics on my preferred Blues website though…that’s just weird.

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 9:56 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Nevermind

I forgot I had the same Username over at Vivaelbirdos.com – another SB joint (as opposed to a Spike Lee joint). Hence, the reason for the pain-free log-in. And hence the reason for my Dave Foley-Kids in the Hall signature.

Idea for the next secondary site headline: St. Louis Game Time – Hey Everybody, Look How Hot We Are!

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 10:02 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

awesome!...and trippy

actual live replies added in without refreshing! I was literally reading Duke’s first post and Gift’s post when Duke replied to his own post and it just appeared on my screen like magic

by Dooks on Dec 16, 2008 10:06 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

It was magic, Dooks...

Street Magic!

Incidentally, when are we having our Duke/Dooks-off to see which of us rules supreme? It’ll be the contest of the century – complete with color-contrasted “Put Up Your Duke/Dooks” t-shirts, posters and other memorabilia.

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 10:46 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

add a 3rd

it’d have to be “Dukes/Dooks”
the columnist for The Fantasy Files in GT is Adam Duke

by Dooks on Dec 16, 2008 11:18 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Redecorating

Brad, did you move the furniture around? Something looks different.

by Chris Gift on Dec 16, 2008 9:57 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Im confused, as if facebook wasnt taking over my life as it is….

by RFJCC on Dec 16, 2008 10:21 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

We’re not the first and I hope we’re not the last but I know we’re all headed for that adult crash… we’re just a minor threat. We’re just a minor threat!!!!

Minor Threat will forever rule the world. This show looks like a prison riot. Just how it should be.

GO GT!!!!

by Answer Man on Dec 16, 2008 10:43 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I'm new here too

Don’t ask me any questions about this place yet. It kind of feels like a rental car. It’s pretty cool, but I don’t know how to turn the windshield wipers on.

by Brad Lee on Dec 16, 2008 10:49 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

it’s the cruise control that’ll really fuck you up

www.SecondCityHockey.com

by Matthew Dirt on Dec 16, 2008 11:17 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

New place looks pretty spiffy!

And let me try to help christen this new site the only way I know how…

FUCK DETROIT!!!

by CKaelin on Dec 16, 2008 10:52 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Hey Brad

What kind of sloppy-second shenanigans will be in the hard copy tonight? A Bingo square to be filled in once the 50th “sloppy seconds!” yell comes from someone in the stands? Maybe a-call to-arms for the invention and support of the new word "Phaneuf’ed?’

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 10:56 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Holy crap, a thread that includes both a Minor Threat video AND repeated shouts of “Fuck Detroit.” I think I just found my second-favorite SBN hockey blog!

Welcome aboard, you magnificent bastards. And tell Manny Legace that Avs fans still hate him.

Go Avs! Let's get some goals!

by Joe Dunman on Dec 16, 2008 11:03 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Joe @ MHH, I typically don’t like anyone outside of the “Blues Family” but you might be changing my opinion based on your comment. Good on ya.

by Answer Man on Dec 16, 2008 3:54 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

i like the new look and features… and i am secure in the knowledge that it’s only a matter of time until they get abused. in the meantime, nothing beats going to the game and getting the real gametime experience. i can’t wait to see clarence tonight and get my copy of gametime before watching the blues and yelling that someone needs to fuck up todd bertuzzi. fuck detroit.

by -Jessica- on Dec 16, 2008 12:29 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

What the fuck- a crazy new look? Minor Threat? Polls? Actual accounts? Actually, I like it all except the opening an account. I’m lazy.

To a new era in Game Time!

by Manbones on Dec 16, 2008 12:41 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I like Manbones’ avatar. proof that smoking will kill you

by Dooks on Dec 16, 2008 5:02 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Check, check

Is this thing on?

Fuck Detroit

by Poor College Student on Dec 16, 2008 12:51 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Awesome to have you guys and all your crazy minions.

by James Mirtle on Dec 16, 2008 1:48 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

hey is it ok to flush the toilets in this new house, because i just left at bertuzzi of a shit in the upstairs bathroom

Ryan Jennings, Fucking Detroit's mother since 1989

by RFJCC on Dec 16, 2008 2:05 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

WOW!

by Answer Man on Dec 16, 2008 3:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Redundancy

I think leaving a “bertuzzi” in the upstairs bathroom would have been sufficient.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Dec 17, 2008 5:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Uhh

By the Blues Cowboy altar, do you mean that table he stands by?

This is weird, I feel like Garth in Wanye’s World 2.

by IrishBlue on Dec 16, 2008 3:58 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

“It’s like we’re looking down on Wayne’s basement, only that’s not Wayne’s basement…”

“Garth…that was a haiku.”

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Dec 16, 2008 4:47 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

F......

Fffffuck Detroit.

God, it feels good to have a new place to stretch our legs and shout our distain for the Motor City to the world.

P.S. For all you Red Wings fans that show up here – Yserman is a tool. Lidstrom is overrated. Holmstrom did interfer with that goalie. Your sister is a whore. That is all.

by Pagan on Dec 16, 2008 11:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Step 1: Stupidly decide to start a fan-based unofficial program to sell at the home games

of a last-place team.

Step 2: Set up a really sad little website about your hairbrained scheme.

Step 3: Get a bunch of great people to help you out; improve website and paper.

Step 4: Be amazed that people find the paper and the site to be entertaining; continue to press your luck.

Step 5: Get lucky and get asked to work with James Mirtle. Really, I mean who wouldn’t trust this guy, right?

Step 6: Profit

/fixed

.... formerly "Tim" of StLouisGameTime.com

by CrossCheckRaise on Dec 17, 2008 11:32 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Fellow underpants gnomes unite!

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Dec 17, 2008 5:44 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I just realized that I made my first post on the new site and did not cuse. Which I think was rule #2, Rule #1 is that we don’t talk about the site, right? Anywho; Fuck, shit cock, fanny bandit, detroit, anal, and herpes. Thanks for the new site guys.

by IrishBlue on Dec 17, 2008 3:55 PM CST reply actions 0 recs