Fantasy football is the greatest thing known to football fans. Ok, maybe HDTV, the NFL Ticket, and Tivo get the edge, but it's close. The ups and downs are unreal and being able to manage your own squad is so much fun and so challenging as well. Plus, rooting for 10 players and not just one team gives you more to root for.
Of course, that is all geeky, nerdy, sports talk gibberish, but here is yet another example why fantasy football is so popular:
I've played in a league for 11 years and last night, a fantasy football miracle happened. Going into the Monday night game, my team was 0-2 and facing a 2-0 division leader. The score was tied at 97 and I had no players left. My opponent had Drew Brees left as his only player yet to play. If the score remained tied, I would have lost the tiebreaker.
In our league, the only way to get negative points is to lose a fumble (-2) or throw an interception (-3). So going into the night, it was obvious that I had less of a chance of winning than Britney Spears has to be a good mother (man, those poor kids).
Well, the fantasy football gods were looking over my team and Drew Brees posted -5 points giving my team the much-needed early season victory.
I'm sure Brees was thinking about my team's hopes when he was throwing those 4 picks and fumbling away Manning's (my opponent) victory.... ;-)
Thank you Mr. Brees....I'm just glad I wasn't on the other end of your freakish inability to throw to your own teammates instead of the Titans defense!
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