Fall Craze

Clear out your schedule, or schedule your life around it. Girlfriends are told to stay out of contact with you for perhaps the most important two or three hours of your late summer. Weeks of research, analysis, pre-ranking and exaggeration take place because of it. Time is wasted thinking about it. Possibilities are talked over and over again. You wonder for months where your draft pick will be located and where other dangerous opponents will make their pick. The line of trust grows tenser by the minute because of it. Was what he told me true? Lines of communication become filled with talk. It might be the first thing you think about every day. What is the craze I am talking about? Fantasy Football. Numerous leagues, might I say, millions, are created early in the summer and then fulfilled throughout the remaining months of the year.


In the next four months, you will become a pro at trash talking and Sundays will be the most important day of the week. Time on the internet may double because of it. Arguments will take place about whose team is better. Some may stay up late on Sunday night and far into Monday morning to ensure they pick up last week's best performer before anyone else. One-sided trades will be made causing the entire league to go up in arms. Managers will analyze their roster so much that at one point, they will have thought about either dropping or trading their entire roster. Ties to your favorite team may be pressed if your favorite team is playing a team loaded with your fantasy guys. You don't care how touchdowns are scored, as long as they are scored by your players. Others will roll their eyes at the continous, boring talk of how this player or that player scored two touchdowns. Fantasy playoffs will cause managers either to be disgusted that they didn't make it or extremely nervous for the fact that they might be screwed over by having players on winning teams or for some other crazy reasons. The end of the season marks a relief in the eyes of many outsiders, for they can now realistically talk their boyfriend/girlfriend or whomever it may be. The new season of waiting will now begin sparking a debate of which player will be next year's number one pick and how they are going to survive for the next 8 months without football. And in case you haven't noticed, your favorite team won the Super Bowl. But, who cares about that? It doesn't matter because a team comprised of random and studly players has just won you a fake trophy and a year's worth of trash talk and the title of reigning fantasy football champ in your fantasy football league.