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    Fantasy Football Awfulness


    Created on Friday, September 5, 2008        Bookmark and Share

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    When you stop to think about it, is there anything worse than a bunch of grown men sitting around drafting imaginary football teams? For those of you that aren't familiar with this practice, "fantasy sports" is something that has exploded with the advent of the internet. The idea is fairly simple: you hold a draft for players in a given sport and when they do well in real life, they do well on your "team". For example, if my quarterback throws 2 touchdowns on sunday I will get a corresponding amount of points in my league (note: my quarterbacks tend not to throw touchdown passes).

    This game has changed over the years. When I was a kid we used to have these drafts for baseball players and once a day we'd have to comb through boxscores to see how they did in our fantasy league. When personal computers were available we would do the stats in simple spreadsheets. The arrival of the internet allowed us to do everything online. This was significant if for no other reason than it eliminated the (very real) possibility that people would claim that the "commisioner" screwed up his lineup.

    I'm trying to figure out why this is so appealing to guys. I think it breaks down to the following:

    1) It involves sports
    2) We get to show that we are smarter than everyone else
    3) We get to make lists. We LOVE lists

    Anyway, our draft was this past tuesday and believe it or not we got it done in 57 minutes (as opposed to 3 or 4 hours in the old days of hanging large sheets on the wall). Three people couldn't make the draft so the computer picked for them.

    I drew the third pick and here is my team - let me know what you think by using the comment button below:
    1.
    (3)
    QB
    2.
    (22)
    RB
    3.
    (27)
    RB
    4.
    (46)
    RB
    5.
    (51)
    TE
    6.
    (70)
    WR
    7.
    (75)
    WR
    8.
    (94)
    RB
    9.
    (99)
    WR
    10.
    (118)
    RB
    11.
    (123)
    WR
    12.
    (142)
    QB
    13.
    (147)
    DEF
    14.
    (166)
    TE
    15.
    (171)
    K



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