Fantasy and Reality gets mixed up in NFL Football
Almost everybody has a football fantasy team.
Yup, it’s the only thing that let’s you play football without guys like Ray Lewis or Brian Urlacher coming at you at full speed. Trust me, that WILL hurt every time. In fantasy football, you can just sit your ass down and play football, managing and tweaking your roster to get the W for any given week.
Speaking of which, I benched Reggie Bush last week after watching him do NOTHING the previous weeks. And guess what happened, he just unloaded a breakout performance last Sunday. Goddammit!
Anyway…
Fantasy football has been so popular the last couple of years that even NFL Football players themselves have fantasy teams of their own. Take Indianapolis Colts linebacker Cato June for example. Cato June is a linebacker for the Colts on the NFL Football field, but off it, he’s a powerful manager, shrewd general manager and X/O savvy head coach of his NFL Football fantasy team he calls the ”Juneimus D Great.”
And guess what, he doesn’t have Colts leader Peyton Manning at quarterback.
An estimated 15 million to 20 million Americans play fantasy football. June is proud to be one of them. Admittedly, it makes for some awkward moments. You see, his fantasy quarterback is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots.
”Playing New England, I can’t be happy with him (Tom Brady) throwing a TD pass, but in the back of my mind, I’m like, ‘Yeah, I just got six points in my fantasy league,”’ Cato June says, laughing.
Uh oh… Just don’t let Colts head coach Tony Dungy hear that.
NFL Fantasy Football has exploded into a billion-dollar business. You can find tips everywhere, including the various platforms in ESPN. The premise is simple, fans build teams by drafting NFL Football players, who acquire points for recording a variety of statistics. Games are played head to head and, like the NFL, the good teams advance to the playoffs. Depending on the league, the stakes can be quite low, or dizzyingly high.
And right now, my Fantasy Raiders are sitting at the very bottom of my fantasy football league standings. Thanks of course to the demise of Randy Moss this season. Goddammit!
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