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Hello everyone! My name is Tyler Dean Anderson, and I've been lucky enough to find my passion in life! I've always loved history, high school football and statistics. When I was 13 years old, I combined all three, and I began following every local high school football game that happened. Logging every statistic from every game that happened during the season. It was really interesting to see the results of hard work by these older kids that were legendary to an eighth grader like myself. I would print out stats and give them to the high schoolers, and they seemed to appreciate it! I was a marginal player when I was in high school, but I felt honored to be included with the real stars on the field. After graduation I became the P.A. Announcer at the Mount Baker high school football games for a few years. I was then hired as a "stringer" by the Bellingham Herald to cover high school sports. This was a dream of mine! I got to go to high school games for free, sit in the press box, interview coaches and players, total up stats, write a story that people read, and get paid for it? WOW! This felt like the pinnacle. At this point, I would go to the Bellingham Public Library every Saturday for years, doing research on every local high school football game since 1975. Over the years, and thousands of hours of research, my main goal was to some day write a book. However, in April of 2013, my decision to write a book changed. I was disgusted about how negative was on Facebook, and I wanted to create a page that would be positive, and people would enjoy to see every day. So, I created a page "The History of Whatcom County High School Football". I thought maybe a hundred people would enjoy it, but nothing really more than that. I put a poll question up the first night, asking which school had the richest football tradition in the county, and then I went to sleep. When I woke up, the poll question had over 20,000 views! That's when I knew that I had something that was bigger than I could ever imagine, but I also knew it could be something positive that former coaches and players would really enjoy. Over the past four years it has grown, and I now have over 4000 followers. The support has been amazing, and it makes me want to do more for everyone in the county. That has included creating my own page, whatcomcountyfootball.com, creating the "Top 500" list, wishing happy birthday to former players and coaches, doing season previews that past few years, putting up video highlights among many other projects. This is my passion, but it isn't my occupation. I have poured my free time into this project for the past 25 years of my life. Many people have asked how they can donate, and this is how. Your donations will be able to keep me going, and with enough funds, I can expand into other sports! Unfortunately, the newspaper business is fading away, which creates very little coverage for other sports. That is something that I would love to change! Most of you that follow my page understand my passion. Any donation will help!
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