Having never really grasped the game, Fantasy Football seemed like a lot of work. There are plenty of obsessed people out there who spend hours every week prepping their roster. Hours that I don’t have to spare in my week. The idea always intrigued me but I felt way too far behind to catch up. There is a small chance that I can get hyper-competitive and didn’t want my fall/winter spent losing to people who understand what is going on.
This year I joined a league at work (Road to Seven)where no one really has any idea what is going on. Went out and grabbed a magazine telling me what I needed to know and realized that I hadn’t watched the NFL in five years. (College ball is just more fun when you go to a school with a good team and parties book-ending every game win or lose.) Kept telling myself that I was fine losing as long as I understood the game and why I was losing, err wasn’t winning. That mantra didn’t last come Monday night week one.
My season started off shaky. Got LT’s first fumble, lost my first game, and there was nothing I could do to change the points I receive on game day… why would anyone enjoy this? Immediately wanted to swap my whole roster and was convinced by a guy at work that Fantasy Football “is a marathon not a sprint.” Still don’t understand why I can’t sprint the whole marathon. Start strong, end strong, stay strong in the middle. Then again, I’ve never ran a marathon, so maybe there’s a problem with that strategy that I’m missing.
Week four. My record: 3-1. This game is awesome! Unless there are injuries there really isn’t too much work to be put into the team after a good roster is set. I get bragging rights and trash talk for exerting zero energy. No wonder so many Americans love this game. It is so much easier then taking on a bruised and battered game of Ultimate every Sunday, and has the same opportunity for dancing around with a win.
Back when we needed one more person I convinced my grandpa to join our league. And now I will slaughter him. We face off this coming weekend, but I’d like to point out the league’s rankings:
Yea, I’m the condescending Clowns. Because not much is scarier then a clown and nothing is scarier then a flying clown.
One Response to “Road to Seven (boo Steelers)”
November 1st, 2009 at 5:00 am
Oh, so much to say on the topic. First off, I would like to welcome you to the fantasy football comunity. It’s a long arduous journey, but fun never the less. I’m currently trying my best to defend my title this year, but we’ll see how the rest of the season plays out. I seriously had a conversation with a friend the other day that’s very much into “geek” stuff(i.e. video games, rpg’s, that sort of thing) and pointed out to him that all fantasy football really is is an rpg for real life sports. He didn’t like the analogy but didn’t refute the arguement, so score one for me. I fail to see where you got flying clowns from your name, clearly the clowns part deserves to be there but I don’t get the flying portion. Did you simply mean descending? And I also beg to differ on it being the scariest thing imaginable, because, as you recall, I am terrified of Freddy Krueger, and nothing shall ever convince me otherwise(that’s not a challenge mind you, I’m terrified enough of Freddy, let’s not make it any worse shall we? :p)
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