Fantasy Football

It's that time of year again. Football season is upon us and has officially overtaken baseball as America's favorite pastime. This has never been more evident than in the case of fantasy football. I used to hate fantasy football because I thought that it took away from the purity of cheering for your team. However, I am a Detroit Lions fan and we don't have much to look forward to each year. I did remain slightly loyal and took Jon Kitna as my QB this year. This craze has swept the nation to the tune of millions of people with an ever growing number of female participants. There are several aspects to fantasy football to cover. Seventy percent of peoples fantasy teams are managed at their job in the office. This is a real problem and causes a loss in production that can actually be tracked. For advertising gurus F.F. is a godsend. Every site players can use is littered with advertisements thus bringing their clients a lot of extra cash. Its like getting superbowl commercials on for a fraction of the cost. I now follow every game with a fervor I never had before. While I'm watching these games that I would have never cared to watch before I am once again bombarded by commercial advertisement. I'm assuming that this can only help an ailing economoy. Lots of companies have now blocked access to yahoo and various other fantasy football haunts on their specific intranets. I'm sure that hasn't slowed down some of your more creative employees(i.e. those who can use their cell phones) In many cases you really can't blame them because they have money riding on league. Some leagues have only an up front fee. Others have charges for every trade you make and side bets on a lot of the games played on Sunday. There are a lot of "free"leagues that will charge you money for amenities such as up to the second stat tracking and automatic player updates or injury reports. Its probably more addicting than gambling because you have some much control over the outcome and are so many sources for reasearch. How good your team is, is really up to you by the end of the year even if you started out with a poor one. In fact, its probably more satisfying if the you began the year with was terrible. The same pride of ownership come when you get done with a fixer upper car or house because you put in the time, work, and resaearch to make it great. I know any girl I went out with would become infintely more interesting on a date if she had a fantasy football team and could speak knowledgeably about the league. Well the book said to freewrite for about ten minutes and I am fairly confident I could bust out 6-8 pages on the topic of fantasy football, so that is all for now. Jonathan