One of the oldest fantasy football leagues in Connecticut is still going strong.

Forty-six years ago, the Glenbrook Athletic Club in Stamford hosted one of Connecticut's first fantasy football drafts.

"Our first year was 1979. It was a nickel a point back then," said Frank Howlett with the league.

Howlett and Craig Bogardus have been a part of the Glenbrook Fantasy Football League that started when one of its members saw the idea in a magazine.

"We draft a team then the season would start. We would phone in our lineup. You know our wives would be answering the phone and have to write down lineups and stuff and give it to the commissioner," said Howlett.

Stats had to be written down and calculated based on the results that came out in the newspaper days later.

Way before sites on the internet that did it for them.

"Back then we would go to the magazine store. Buy a Street Smith or one of those magazines and that would be your bible," said Howlett.

And if you were the commissioner of the league?

"It was brutal because it was a lot of work. The games were Sunday and Monday night and we were here at the Glenbrook Athletic Club every Wednesday night for the standings of that week's statistics," said Bogardus.

The winner of the league got to walk through the club with the trophy.

"It kept us all together you know. I wouldn't have associated with these guys, a lot of these guys if it wasn't for the league," said Howlett.

A tradition that is still bringing friends together from all over the country.

The oldest fantasy football leagues in America date back to the 1960s.