ANDREW NOSTVICK SPORTS EDITOR
Hi, I’m Andrew Nostvick and I used to play fantasy football. To be fair, I don’t think I’m done with it. It feels more like a break than anything else.
Fantasy football is huge in this country and it’s also pretty big on campus, especially with the sports staff.
I’m the only sports writer on staff that doesn’t have a fantasy football team this season.
Honestly, fantasy football is losing it’s luster with me. Last season was the first time I made the playoffs. I won the championship for one league and finished in fourth in the other.
These weren’t leagues that involved money, so I didn’t really gain anything out of the wins. Sure, I could say I won bragging rights, but why should I do it. It seems pointless.
We all want the opportunity to run our own football teams. Even Homer Simpson dreamed of owning the Dallas Cowboys. But to do it in this form? It’d be much more fun to pick my fantasy team through the use of video games.
I’m tired of fantasy football, I admit it. I’ve played it for several years now and fantasy football has really worn out on me. Unless there’s money involved, the incentives aren’t there.
That said, I’m tired of all the hype behind fantasy football. It annoys me how the hype for fantasy football can be at times greater than that of regular football.
Who could forget the advertisement that featured Vikings running back Adrian Peterson running a 40-yard dash with his shirt off.
This was pretty much every other commercial shown on the NFL Network over the summer.
I get it, he likes to run shirtless like Matthew McConaughey, but what does that have to do with fantasy football?
I blame the explosion of the Internet for this meteoric rise. Fantasy football has embedded itself in our society.
ESPN has their own fantasy sports department. They somehow devote part of their regularly scheduled programming to fantasy football updates.
A majority of the football pregame shows have some fantasy football updates.
It gets tiring to hear about fantasy football and all the questions that need to be asked.
Should I start Maurice Jones-Drew or Ryan Grant? Does it really matter in the long run?
I don’t want to call my fantasy football career a phase. I say that because I’ll probably end up succumbing to the temptation and play it next year.
For now, I’ve moved on to Football Pick’em and survival pools.
Until that time comes that I’ll be getting into fantasy football again, have fun sweating over who to start Sunday.