Fantasy Football: Why Do We Submit Ourselves to Torture?

A few million people cannot be wrong about something, can they? Fantasy Football provides no benefits. It does not cure cancer, does not work as a pick-up line, does not win you money (unless you pay for it), does not make your dad love you more, and does not provide you with your daily vitamins.

What it does provide are hours meddling with your lineup instead of working or paying attention in school or to your family. Also, it leads to Sundays watching games you would not watch otherwise, only cheering for one player on the field, embarrassments of losing more times than winning, and reading articles on players who may score decent points by guys who could do just a good of a job throwing darts at a board and saying pick up that player in your league.

Yet still, a growing number of people are playing this game. It is possibly bigger than World of Warcraft, Nintendo Wii, and Rock Band. It has its own industry and is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The NFL has to accredit some of the popularity to fantasy football players.

I mean sure Fantasy Football is fun. But it is also devastating. So much time and energy is input into your teams. Think about it you spend sometimes days preparing just to play. You create your name, run through a draft sheet, then pick a time for the draft and make sure you are there, then u spend an hour or two actually doing the draft.

Then you can spend anywhere from five minutes to five hours a week updating said team. Don't forget talking trash to your opponent, trying to make trades to steal away a good breakout player, and analyzing who to start and who to sit.

All of this culminates into the fantasy football playoffs. Where one team shows it can beat everyone for the entire year. All of this work into fantasy results in nothing but broken dreams and laughter from your girlfriend who just won the league because she picked guys with cool names or sexy faces.

So why do we play fantasy football? It is a geeky hobby that can be borderline obsession. It plays with our emotions and makes us curse players who are otherwise good guys. I am looking at you Pierre Thomas and DeAngelo Williams who beat my teams in separate leagues.

It causes you to curse players on your own team for their inability to produce. This is where I give a shout out to DeSean Jackson and his negative performance.

I played in four leagues this year and made two playoffs. I was eliminated by Pierre Thomas after being fifth place out of 20 teams. In another league, I missed the playoffs thanks to DeAngelo Williams putting up 27 points and letting his manager win by two points. You may ask me, "Are you bitter?" And the answer is yes I am.

So who were your fantasy killers this year? Luckily, I never drafted Tom Brady and never touched a Denver running back. But there has to be stories of defeat out there. This is the place to let your frustrations out Bleacher Creatures! Use the comment space to tell us all of your fantasy disasters.

If you are here to gloat please write an article for those of you fortunate enough to not lose, hopefully your virtual championship trophy gets you a date with Megan Fox. If that does happen, please do not tell me; ignorance is bliss.

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