The talk about video games a couple classes ago got me thinking, for some reason, about fantasy football. It's sort of a video game, right? I'll admit, after I gave it a shot last year, I've been hooked on it ever since. It's just super fun for any football fan.
The whole concept just baffles me. A game that's incredibly fun, that is not specific to any age-group, and is 100% free. All that is required is a love for football (some knowledge of the big players would help too). What's even more baffling is how it brings a huge community together through the internet, a community that would have been impossible to put together without the internet. Whoever came up with this should get a huge pat on the back.
However, the community is not limited to just an online relationship. I'm sure countless friendships have been made over a conversation about fantasy football. Two avid players could go on for hours on end talking about how Calvin Johnson got 36 points this Sunday, or how one has to resort to Josh Freeman as a starting QB because Eli Manning's putting up so little points, or how one cries himself to sleep in a corner because Jim Philbin benched Reggie Bush for making a very minor mistake, or how he lost because his opponent had Doug Martin, who ran for 250 yards, got 4-5 touchdowns, and put up 58 points...Well, I think you can figure out how my fantasy season has been going.
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