We first reached out to Ray Dunlap in 2012 — a "gray area" period in APBA history when the company HQ had moved to Alpharetta, Ga., from Lancaster, Pa., and the annual convention was a fan-held event. As the fates would have it, Ray was living in Atlanta when the company moved. Ray, co-creator of the Suncoast Football League in Tampa in 1979, has been playing APBA since 1966 (great year), wrote for the APBA Journal and also served as Tampa Bay Bucs' statistician for five years. His innovations, including a player matchup system and all-original results boards, are legend.
Ray is also one of the key presenters at our inaugural APBA Footaball tournament at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August 2013. (Audio from June 4, 2021, interview, originally for YouTube).

Excerpt from our 2012 inteview with Ray:

By Geoff Giordano
©2012 APBA Football Club
NEW JERSEY, Oct. 18, 2012 — The decades-long interest APBA can hold for individual gamers is well known. But to keep a face-to-face league to keep going for more than 30 years requires a sound foundation forged by solid leadership.
In the case of Tampa Bay’s Suncoast Football League, founded in 1979 by Ray Dunlap, the example set by the onetime APBA Journal football editor endures.
Now living in Georgia, not far from APBA’s new headquarters, Dunlap has recently sought to start a new league Target= “_blank>(having posted an ad at Tabletop Sports two years ago). Though he got no responses, his enthusiasm for APBA football remains undiminished.
“I have never found a hobby in my life that I loved more than participating in the Suncoast Football League,” founder and former commissioner Dunlap asserts. “I was in that league about 11 years; it was the best 11 years of any hobby I’ve ever done, and I’ve never even come close to replicating it.”