Another year another season, yet oddly this past offseason seemed to feel like the longest I’ve had to wait for a new round of NFL football to commence. I think it has a lot to do with the annoying offseason tabloid-like atmosphere that lingered around too long like a bad double bean/cabbage burrito that’s taking its 2nd turn around your intestines. Waxing inspirational poetic metaphors aside, it’s time for some gridiron action!
Ignoring all the Michael Vick witchhunts, the Tila Tequila Twitter Tweetfest, and the soap opera circus, will help us focus on instead the substantial important headlines that will affect the actual games.
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So last week we held our annual fantasy football draft for the PPR/PPC/TD league I have commissioned for the better part of this decade. The results were ample amounts of offensive smack talk amongst friends/semi-strangers (aka internet acquaintances), but overshadowed by needless unsolicited generic compliments for “nice picks” that frankly is akin to congratulating a child for pooping in their diaper. In other words, yours truly was doling out the cheese in good form.
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Fool me once, shame on you… fool me twice, shame on Aaron Rodgers. By now as the sports news of the week has hit the waves and hit Green Bay Packer fans in the nads, yours truly finds himself in the midst of an internal struggle. Despite contradictory evidence, I personally always (cough) “try” to find the more pleasurable aspects of sports (hence the namesake of this website). However I cannot help but feel incredulous skepticism (holding back some punches) regarding the Brett Favre retirement carousel. My objectivity knows no bounds, until blind emotions wash over me like the copious amounts of rain has been washing over West Texas all summer.
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It’s Sunday afternoon, and you’re sitting at home lounged by the computer waiting for your turn to snake around in the 4th round of your fantasy football draft as you struggle to decide between solidifying your bench with another solid if unspectacular veteran RB, picking up your first WR, or reaching for that relatively unknown yet talented rookie RB.
Personally, I would venture to declare that 90% of the fun of joining a football fantasy league is the draft itself. Sure winners and losers are separated by astute waiver-wire stalking to unearth that initially-forgotten but now hot FA player that has stepped into the fantasy limelight, be it through a sudden rise due to a timely yet not so timely injury to the guy ahead of him on the depth charts, or the sudden influx of playing time due to the mediocrity of the guy in front of him on the depth charts. Nevertheless, unless you consider the karma-killing season ending injury, most of the blue chip players you take on draft day will stay with you through the end of the season.
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Playing fantasy football isn’t just a craze. It isn’t just an excuse for “nerds” to channel their inner dork-ness towards a hobby that seems hip. If anything fantasy football is the ultimate conversation starter. Not only does it bring a wider audience and more intense fandom to the game, it lends itself to camaraderie, increased interest in pigskin sports, and mostly a degree of intimacy with professional football players that rarely existed before the advent of fantasy football and the internet.
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