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I like predictions vastly more than I do overviews. Why, you ask? Because no one cares about predictions later. That's because no one is ever right. Actually I take that back; people remember predictions if you say stupid things on national television and make it apparent that you suck at your job.

And people also remember them if you get bold and promise to remind them later. So, to make this somewhat memorable, let's get a little bold, shall we?

The Charlotte Bobcats will win the Atlantic. Okay, maybe not. But I can quasi-dream. In reality, I think the Orlando Magic will win the division. Also, reality: I lied about being "bold". Maybe. See, it turns out that even Magic bloggers agree that we could all question whether the Magic can repeat last year.

Today is the official two-year anniversary of this thing called FanHouse. Last year, I did a retrospective of events that happened in the previous year to celebrate this day. Today, I will do something different.

Here's my own abridged unofficial history of the site -- omitting things I forgot, semi-embarrassing stuff, and attempting to edit my prolix self because I'm writing this at the last second and don't have much time to mess with it. With apologies to those sensitive to gratuitous self-indulgence, chronic overuse of adverbs and windy sentences ...

In the beginning, FanHouse was just NFL FanHouse with no other sports coverage. Our blogfather, Jamie Mottram, now running the Yahoo! blogs and continuing Mr. Irrelevant, researched to find NFL bloggers to cover each team and the NFL in general. The idea behind FanHouse was to collect various blog voices from places around the interwebs, and put them in one place to make them easier to find. It would be a place where you could keep up with everything NFL, and have knowledgeable, passionate fans tell you what the real deal was with those teams in an entertaining way.

Though bloggers could keep their own idiosyncratic ways of writing, we were not to use the real naughty words. This was going to be a sports blog that you wouldn't be too embarrassed for your parents to read (insert tired "once you called them down to the basement" blogger joke here).

Today is the official two-year anniversary of this thing called FanHouse. Last year, I did a retrospective of events that happened in the previous year to celebrate this day. Today, I will do something different.

Here's my own abridged unofficial history of the site -- omitting things I forgot, semi-embarrassing stuff, and attempting to edit my prolix self because I'm writing this at the last second and don't have much time to mess with it. With apologies to those sensitive to gratuitous self-indulgence, chronic overuse of adverbs and windy sentences ...

In the beginning, FanHouse was just NFL FanHouse with no other sports coverage. Our blogfather, Jamie Mottram, now running the Yahoo! blogs and continuing Mr. Irrelevant, researched to find NFL bloggers to cover each team and the NFL in general. The idea behind FanHouse was to collect various blog voices from places around the interwebs, and put them in one place to make them easier to find. It would be a place where you could keep up with everything NFL, and have knowledgeable, passionate fans tell you what the real deal was with those teams in an entertaining way.

Though bloggers could keep their own idiosyncratic ways of writing, we were not to use the real naughty words. This was going to be a sports blog that you wouldn't be too embarrassed for your parents to read (insert tired "once you called them down to the basement" blogger joke here).