You may have already heard of TeamSPank before finding your way here. Perhaps you've asked yourself, "Why do they call themselves that?" or "How did they come to be?" Well, here is everything (and probably more) that you ever wanted to know about TeamSPank.
There once was an actress named Katee Sackhoff. She was on a little show called Battlestar Galactica (or BSG for short) on the SciFi network (or skiffy for short). Skiffy had a huge forum dedicated to BSG with tons and tons of threads full of exciting people. During the last half of 2007, a number of people started to gather and feel at home in a place called The Katee Sackhoff Appreciation Thread. There were all kinds of people of all ages from all over the world with one thing in common -- an unhealthy obsession with Katee Sackhoff and/or Starbuck.
So why do we call ourselves SPanks? Well, on August 1, 2007 Katee Sackhoff appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Pure magic happened that night. Katee provided this group of devoted fans something priceless. She explain that her brother, Erick, had the nickname "Spank" growing up. This had something to do with some kind of activity that rhymes with Sackhoff. I'm not sure exactly what that's all about. Anyway, Erick's friends even called Katee "Littlespank" and Mrs. Sackhoff "Maspank." Thus The SPanks were born. Unfortunately, I can't embed the video but here's the link to it...
Do yourself a huge favor and watch that video!
In March of 2008, TeamSPank became too much for skiffy to contain. So the SPanks set out on an adventure to find a home of their own. The original TeamSpank HQ and Treehouse were started and thrived for several years. So much happened during that time. Many friendships were forged and memories were made. Unfortunately, both sites succumbed to the evil of Russian hackers in late 2011. Out of necessity, Treehouse 2.0 was started along with a new TeamSPank Blog.
Now, you may be wondering to yourself why I keep making typos and putting a capital "P" in the word "SPank." Well, it's not a typo. This little phenomenon was first noticed when a couple of SPanks (Starby and Swim) met Katee Sackhoff and got her to autograph something for the SPanks.
We didn't think that much about it until some time later when our fearless leader MaxiSpank got another autograph from Katee.
You may be inclined to think that Katee was just having an off day and signed a bunch of stsuff with random capital letter. However, these two autographs occured months apart and were signed on two different continents. For whatever reason, when Katee writes "TeamSPank" she capitalizes the P. We thought it was endearing and only fitting that we should do the same.
As you can see, this is a VERY scaled down version of the history of TeamSPank. You can find a much more detailed history HERE. However, that is mostly the history of DJ and Fats and how they were in love with themselves and each other. Just kidding. (Not really.) Love you guys!
So, does that just about cover ever thing? Anybody have any questions?
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