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Originally posted by Daradon@Jan 3 2005, 05:21 PM
How did this whole 'Fata' coming into being and what's the corrolation with the players name. I asked this question before but didn't get a response. Is it because Rico 'always seemed to come back, but was useless when he did'? Something to that effect? Also, how did the dancing spiderman with the Rico head happen?
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Enlightenment..
A BRIEF HISTORY OF RICO
So one day Rico Fata was put on waivers, I know I know, why would they do that, that kid had wheels.. Anyways, as the story goes he got picked up by the New York Rangers off of said waivers and someone posted to this fact. However, as days went by, more and more people started posting about Rico Fata being claimed off of waivers. Thus the effect of being fata'd was first used to define someone who was posting information that had already been made aware to the rest of the board population at an earlier time.
The original fata was posted by, if I recall Marc Ciampa, and it was simply a mug shot of the infamous speedster. CrazyJoe aka Anthony Cook then took the liberty to graft the face of Rico Fata onto a dancing Spiderman gif that was floating around the internet, this became the new way to Fata.
Since that time there was a period of disgrace where the Fata was being over-used as some might say, it was the beginning of the Fata wars with the likes of Jordan (aka SuperNilson) versus the Teen-Groupies (kermitology, hulkrogan, Bring Back Shantz) and for a length of time the Fata went into hiding. That is until the day of reckoning, the day of snowdude.
Snowdude made a post saying he had seen John Davidson make a comment after a Rangers game that the Rangers would be aquiring Roman Turek, I can't remember the exact details of the exchange, however, this started a bit of a riot as Sportsnets own Roger Millions saw this and asked Mr. Davidson what on Earth was going on. Davidson denied it and was furious that his name would be put to such lies.
Now this is a bit of a tangent, but it ties back into Fata as this Turek to the Rangers topic was posted numerous times by many posters who thought they were breaking huge news to the world of Calgarypuck. A call went out for the return of the Fata, and his use has come back into play to a lesser extent since then. He is currently in hosting on kermitology's site and the fear of the fata is now a board norm ie.. "I hope I don't get Fata'd"