For some, Sunday afternoons are spent in a recliner flipping channels from one game to another to just simply checking out the action and the scores. But for others, the NFL games have much more meaning.If involved in the fantasy football craze, you are frantically checking the scores and stats of your chosen players on the team you own.
Fantasy football is huge.If you don’t buy it, check out Sports Center on ESPN, which devotes a lot of air time every Sunday filling in the millions of participants on the viral interactive league news. The announcers dish out information on players such as injuries, which makes the fantasy of owning a team seem very real.
Once a league is formed with up to 16 teams, each participant (owner) takes turns selecting players until every roster position is filled.The owner chooses his starting lineup, signs replacement players and negotiates trades.Game winners are determined by points accumulated by players based on their actual performance in the game for that day.
At the end of the regular NFL season, a playoff tournament takes place.
Once the playoffs are over, the final two teams duke it out for the fantasy football league championship.
Participating in fantasy football has caused me to keep up with all of the NFL news.Before my involvement, my knowledge of the league as a whole was not up to par.As an avid Kansas City Chiefs fan, it was the only team that I kept up with and knew anything about.But as an owner in the fantasy league with players from many different teams on my roster, I had to learn about these players in order to make strategic moves that would produce a winning team.
Fantasy football allows you to become a fan of players that you normally would never have cheered for.
I was never a Michael Vick fan in the past, but he scored lots of points for my ESPN league team, and now I consider him to be the most electrifying player in the NFL.
After week one, my team is undefeated.I also own a Yahoo league team that didn’t fare so well in the opening week.Ben Roethlisberger didn’t get the job done and Jamaal Charles needs to step it up as well as the entire Chiefs team.And congrats to all the fantasy owners whose quarterback is Tom Brady.
Not many people ever get the chance to own a real NFL football team.Participating in fantasy football allows the average person to experience the thrills and disappointments of owning a team.
