Larry Stanley's Blog: Happy Big Bad Birthday!

I know this maybe a silly thing to keep up with but in September Big Bad Sports Daddy will start it's third year of operations. Happy Birthday BBSD!

We have had a lot of fun styling and profiling and grown more then I could of imagined over the past 2+ years. I would like to take this blog and relive some of our better moments via video and thank everyone who has got Big Bad Sports Daddy to where it is today! There is no doubt that we will be here to serve you for many more years to come! You know if it's beer,women or sports Big Bad Sports Daddy is there!

First I want to thank everyone that has supported bigbadsportsdaddy.com this far. Seriously we couldn't do what we do if you didn't support us. So for you that read our big bad blogs or for those of you who listen to our podcast or you guys who love the Random Bikini Girl contest or those of you who waste some time on our hot links page while clicking and surfing from the bottom of my heart Thank You for the clicks and support!

I also want to thank my friends and family. My Folks Nita and Booby my life long friends Shawn,Betsey,Duck,Andy Bowles,Andy Meadows,Bert,Ally and the everyone else you know who you are. All of who have been very supportive over the past two years! They may have questioned my sanity at times and not understood why I was spending so much time and effort working on "some stupid website" but never the less they remained supportive.

As we celebrate our 3rd birthday at BBSD I thought I would pull the curtain back a little bit and let you know where and how it all started. Here's your history listen drink up and enjoy,

BigBadSportsDaddy was stated over drinks when I was hanging out with my cousin Dora. We came up with the concept and the name and she actually registered the domain name first and transferred it over to me. She felt she didn't have the time to invest in the project. Boy she was right about it being time consuming. So thanks Dora for helping come up the concept.

Once I had the domain locked down it was time to find an investor and some one to build it. Enter Joe the investor and Mike from KellerWerks internet designs. They did everything they could to make sure BBSD was ready to launch September 4th 2008 which was the start of the NFL season that year. We were up and running Pow! POw!

Back then BigBadSportsDaddy wasn't much more then just another handicapping website. It didn't take long for people to start coming to me telling me it could be so much more. Big Mike Wallace told me we should do podcast. Becky Brune and Jessica Trober convinced me to start producing videos for the site and they worked as our first big bad sports daddy reporters. Joe Rainer talked me into doing a weekly football broadcast which former LSU Tigers ALL American Cornerback Denard Walker jumped on board with and started the first weekly bigbadsportsdaddy show. The first big bad sports daddy producers where James McCormick and John Conner.

So Joe,Mike,Becky,Denard,Jessica,John and James here's a big bad Texas Thank You!

During the 2008 football season sometime JCall approached me and pitched a Wrestling show. We talked about the WWE all the time so it made perfect sense to bring it to the air. A few meetings and a brain storming beer session or two later The ShowStoppers podcast was born. Jcall was one of the first voices heard on bbsd and continues to be a valuable member of the BBSD family, Even when he had to relocate from Dallas to Iowa and could no longer be a part of ShowStoppers his first question was "How can I still be involved with the site?" That's when he offered up his writing talent and The Raw Blog was born. JCall is also a knowledgeable sports addict and will share his knowledge and his hot sports opinions with us in his other sports blogs. JCall thank you for everything you have done to help build Big Bad Sports Daddy.

As they say in the biz The Show must go on. When JCall left for Iowa that opened the door up for John Connor to step up and show us how Big and Bad of Sports Daddy he was. Jon had produced and worked as a camera man for bbsd prior to joining the SS podcast. John was a valuable behind the scenes member of bbsd early on. John quickly proved he could be an asset behind the mic and in front of the camera as well. It didn't take John long to figure out he was awesome and start telling everyone about it. He quickly demanded his own show. After hours of mind numbing negotiations he agreed with the new anonymous BBSD GM to co host a show with another young BBSD talent Eric Ringel.

Eric had displayed a great work ethic and natural talent in his hsort time with BBSD. Eric up until then was a BIgBadSportsDaddy Orphan looking for a home. Eric would fill in whenever needed then do whatever he could to make sure any project he was working on was a success. Eric was giving us all a lesson on what it took to be a real Big Bad Sports Daddy.. The John and Eric showed signed on and quickly became one of the most popular independent sports podcast on the net. John and Eric also provide the strong backbone for BBSD handling more day to day task then I have time to type out. So John and Eric Thank you!

With the success of The first two podcast adding the third one was a no brainer. Steph Quinn and I tore up the airwaves on 1360 am Retro Radio in the Summer of 08. The Larry Stanley show was born on that little old am station in the gheto. Steph was grabbing major attention from other radio stations in Dallas for her one of kind ENEWS segments. Luckily for us at BBSD Steph turned them all down to continue doing the LSS even if was on some Sports website. Steph not being into sports has become the queen of pop culture here on BBSD. Steph also is dedicated to giving back and doing a lot of charity work in the community. Steph Quinn thank you for bringing your talents to BBSD.

As our podcast were growing the demand to get them out in public was becoming overwhelming.We had to come up with a way to do live broadcast from remote locations. Terry VnderHayden from withinfilm.com was serving as Technical Director for BBSD at the time. Terry was responsible for the great action shots you see in the bbsd videos and 90% of the BBSD editing. When the subject of live broadcast came up Terry proved yet again why he is the best in the world at what he does by overseeing BBSD's live broadcast and making them what they are now which is Kick ASS. Terry VanderHayden Thank you!

Somewhere in the middle of all the podcast stuff going down Steven Kirby from Cyberblueprints.com saw this little sports website that was fighting and clawing to delivery quality entertainment on the web. Steven took pitty on us and came up with the all new redesigned bigbadsportsdaddy.com 10.0. The new designed has changed our lives at BBSD. Since the redesign the amount of compliments we get on the sites layout has been shocking. Steven Kirby thank you for being the big bad web designer you are and helping BBSD look as good as it does. Steven also has worked countless hours on bbsd including all the time he has spent fixing our mistakes at BBSD. We might of accidently crashed the site a time or two.

I also have to thank a few other people that have been involved with the little sports website that could over the past two years. Teshia and Thomas where a part of our first film crew that we ever sent out. They helped shoot and edit some of bbsd's most popular videos still to this day. Courtney Barton is another one that has lost days of her life working on bbsd. She is a former Dallas Television Sports Reporter that keeps promising us she will start blogging for us one day but hasn't yet. Jimmy Christopher covered the Dallas Cowboys from the inside for BBSD the first two years. Heather,Adella and Michelle (last names with held) have all went above and beyond the call of duty to help BBSD also. Tim V you rock! Marie from the Burb in Las Colinas remains one of our biggest supporters of our cause! Of course I can't leave out our new talent! Like our most controversial Blogger Lucy Skywalker and our newest podcast host Andre from The Sports Daddys, A Extra Big Bad Thank You goes out to all of you for the time and effort you spent working and helping with BBSD stuff.

Over the past two years we have been lucky enough to develop great relationships with several great organizations such as The Dallas Derby Devils,MPX Wrestling, The Burb News, The Press Box Grill Wings at AMF in Euless and The All Star Sports Bar and Grill in Fort Worth. Thank you for partnering up with BigBadSportsDaddy for all of our special events over the past two years.

Now that all those necasary Thank Yous are out of the way it's time to laugh! Here's a list of my top 5 BBSD videos over the past 2 years.

5) The Man Song- Steph Quinn lost a bet on The LSS and had to write a song about how smart men are