Jerry Rice Named Commissioner of the Inaugural Fantasy Football Open Championship
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ — Jerry Rice, the greatest wide receiver of all-time, has been named the commissioner of the inaugural Fantasy football Open Championship (FFOC), which will award the first-ever $1 Million Grand Prize in Fantasy Football. With combined prize money of nearly $2 million, the inaugural FFOC will provide the richest payout in fantasy football history in an effort to find the best player in the world. At a ceremony in Las Vegas at the end of Week 16 of the NFL season, Rice will award the prestigious Millionaire Jacket to history’s first-ever fantasy football millionaire. Visit for more details.
“I’m excited to be a part of a fantasy football contest of this magnitude,” said Jerry Rice, the future NFL Hall of Famer. “In football, we settled the score on the field. Now with the Fantasy football Open Championship, fantasy football has its own competitive arena to find out who’s the best. The money isn’t bad either.”
Rice will draft his own team and share his thoughts and insights from week to week via commissioner’s blog. In addition to the grand prize, the top 15 finalists will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas to attend the event finale and compete for $1,731,000 in prizes. The top three tournament finishers will receive $1,000,000, $350,000 and $150,000.
Fantasy football fans can join the FFOC, powered by Fanball, the leading fantasy sports media company, for an entry fee as low as $125 and test their skills against the world’s best fantasy football players. League rules are fairly standard and will incorporate Weeks 1-16. The winner will be determined by the sum of three combined scores: average points from Week 1 through Week 10; average points from Week 11 through Week 15; and points from Week 16. For complete rules and details, visit .
Besides Rice, several other notable names in the fantasy football space will participate in the FFOC, including:
Eddie Aparicio Commishkit.com
Dave Cella PayDaySports.com
Rick Cordella RotoWorld.com
David Dodds FootballGuys.com
Derrick Eckardt RotoNation.com
Scott Engel RotoExperts.com
Jeff Erickson RotoWire.com
Scott Ferrall Howard 101 Sirius Radio
Mike Florio ProFootballTalk.com
David Gonos OpenSports.com
Kelly & Dan Grogan AthlonSports.com
George Del Prado FantasyAuctioneer.com
Paul Hickey NoOffSeason.com
Ted Kasten DraftDynamix.com
Chris Liss RotoWire.com
Eric Mack CBSSportsline.com
Matthew Pepe RotoBowl.com
Scott Philp RotoHog.com
Michael Romanowski RotoWire.com
Gregg Rosenthal NBCSports.com
Peter Schoenke RotoWire.com
About the Fantasy football Open Championship
FFOC.com (Poised To Stomp, LLC) is a fantasy sports multimedia company formed with the sole purpose of building the largest fantasy sports open championship and awarding the most prize money for any fantasy sports game on the Internet. Poised to Stomp will set the standard for innovation in the field of fantasy online championships and live events. The employees of Poised To Stomp have been actively involved in fantasy sports for the last 14 years, and have been programming and producing media for over 25 years. Visit for more information.
About Fanball.com
Fanball.com (Fanball Interactive, LLC) is the world’s most visited all-fantasy sports site, boasting 2 million unique visitors per month during the NFL season. A Liberty Media owned company, Fanball has been an innovator and leader in the fantasy sports world since 1994. With over 15 million people participating in the ever-growing world of fantasy sports, Fanball.com is the No. 1 ranked pure play fantasy sports Web site on the Internet by Alexa.com. Fanball.com also publishes the leading print publication for fantasy football, Fantasy football Weekly. For more information about Fanball, visit .
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