The Other League

Its official, if there is anything that people talk about as much as football, it is fantasy football.  And as someone who has done it for years, it really is very fun.  It gives people the chance to act like a head coach and general manager rolled into one.  It all starts with perhaps the biggest day of the year, draft day, and for seventeen tough weeks it puts you against your opponents, player knowledge vs player knowledge.

But, if there is one thing that annoys me, it is when people say they are "great" at fantasy football, or they "own" at it.  Excuse me for a second...COME THE f&#@ ON!  No offense, but it really comes down to luck.  Sure you need to know to pick Tom Brady or Ladanian Tomlinson over Alex Smith or Maurice Morris, but in the end you can not predict that Brady would suffer a week one injury, or that a rookie would have a breakthrough season and set records left and right.  It is impossible to predict that your team will win you a fantasy league championship, and therefore once you draft that team all you can do is hope that no one gets hurt, or that people put up the numbers they are predicted to. 

Fantasy football is still fun however, no matter how angry it seems to make me, it really is an enjoyable side hobby or whatever you want to call it.  I mean it probably takes away from production at work, but hey at least now it gives you something to talk about besides what you had for dinner or last night or how that guy definitely was not smarter than a fifth grader.