Happy 10th Birthday, Hustle Belt

[Editor’s note: this was originally a FanPost pubished on Aug. 10, 2020. With permission from Matt, we were allowed to republish it in its entirelty, and some light editing for clarity, on the website so it could be posted to the front page. We thank him for allowing us to share this intimate rememberence of our origins, and hope to continue said legacy over the decade to come.]

On August 10, 2010, I launched a website called Hustle Belt Dot Com.

Leading up to that day, I sent some emails and was looking to get in on the SB Nation land grab of putting words into sequence about sports teams that we liked. A couple of fellas in positions of power gave me the thumbs up, a logo, and a CMS with…