![]() What I won’t miss about fantasy football is the losing. Okay, now what? There is almost a guarantee that no one else has read it, so who can you talk to about it? It’s not like a movie where someone else has seen it and you can talk about it, and unless I get a sex change and age about 30 years so I can join a book club, there's no one to talk to about the book. The real problem is when you're done reading a book, say it was a good book. However, it takes me too long to read a book, especially since after I read about five pages I’m out like a light. Someone else said we should start reading. Someone else said he would start prepping for fantasy baseball (suddenly I don’t feel like I wasted that much time). Hmm, I don’t really want to play in a league where my entire team could be eliminated after one game. I poked around the Internet to see what other people are going to do now that fantasy football is over someone suggested a fantasy system for the playoffs with the total team points for the entire playoffs wins. Definitely not going to get a call from one of my friends with “hey, the Ticket City Bowl is on, let’s go watch it.” There is a lot of time now to fill, which is probably a good thing, but how are we going to fill it? If it were the 49ers or Raiders maybe, but we haven’t had that option in a long while. Me and my friends aren’t going to go to the bar on Sunday to watch teams we don’t even really like play in the playoffs. What do we do on Sundays now? Yeah, the NFL playoffs and bowl games will be fun, but I‘m not going to have my own team playing on Sunday anymore. I’m sure I’ll get over it soon, but now I can’t imagine a weekend without fantasy football. It could be when one of my players scores that excited feeling you get, but now that feeling is gone. Is it the competition we love? Being able to brag about a win and how we beat a close friend? Is it the fact that we can run a fictional NFL team? I don’t know exactly why I get into it so much, but I can't get enough of it. Why did it take that long? We are so invested in this thing that when he was explaining to me how he had lost in the last game of the season, it seemed like he was actually playing in the game himself. I spoke with a colleague (who made it to the finals in his league) and asked him “Did you win your matchup?” 15 minutes later, I found out he lost. I hate to think about how much time, and let’s be honest here, I wasted the last four months researching, overanalyzing match ups, and making numerous pickups and trade offers. Upon losing, my first reaction was: what am I going to do on Sundays now? Not so much that I lost and how I lost, but that it’s over. If nothing else, we always have our season to talk about, and when we did get together that’s all we talk about. Fantasy football greatly enhances football on Sundays and even friendships. I don’t think so, but now I have to carry that with me till next season.
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