Every year, right around August I start to get football crazy! I'm dying for both the college and pro seasons to start, as I am every August. At least we had the World Cup this summer to help me through the long drought of good sporting events (sorry baseball but you just don't cut it for me until October.) But finally, August is here, and with it comes my favorite sporting event, FANTASY FOOTBALL!I've played fantasy football for about 5 years now, and have felt the highs of winning leagues and the lows of finishing dead last in leagues (which I did in 1 league last year) but no matter what, I always enjoy it and always come back for more. I look forward to my fantasy football drafts more than I do the Super Bowl, the World Series and the NBA Finals combined, why? I think it's pretty simple: It's my chance to try to play "GM" for a little while.
I think being a GM for an NFL team would be my dream job, and fantasy football may be the closest I'll ever come to it. You have to scout prospects, check injury reports, conduct trades, waive players, "sign" players, etc. Of course you don't have to deal with massive contracts and inflated egos in fantasy football but you still have to try to work through up and down performance which can be frustrating but a lot of fun.
At the end of the day I think the reason why fantasy football has become the best "sports" event is simply that it creates fan interaction. It forces you to watch every game possible, catch every stat that scrolls across the bottom of the screen and really become "football educated." I love every minute of it.
August is a great month, but in terms of the sports calendar, September is going to be even better. :)
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