Fantasy Football...Football Widow's Nightmare
September 3, 2007 10:26 AM | 2 Comments
I guess I’m lucky. Nobody in my family is into Fantasy Sports. Apparently, other sports widows are not as fortunate.
I ran across a story recently on FOXSports.com, Top 10 signs you're a fantasy football addict and it got me thinking. According to FoxSports, more than 10 million people play Fantasy Football each year. If the sports fan in your life has a fantasy team, you might want to have him take the test.
“The typical player is 41 years old, married with 2 kids, has a household income of $95,000 and, in what should come as a shock to nobody, is usually male”, according to a new survey conducted by Kim Beason, an associate professor at the University of Mississippi.
For those of you who like me, haven’t experienced fantasy football firsthand, “Fantasy Football,” according to Wikipedia, “is an on-line fantasy sports game in which participants (called "owners"), arranged into a league, each draft or acquire via auction a team of real-life American football players and then score points based on those players' statistical performance on the field. A typical fantasy league will employ players from a single football league, such as the NFL or an NCAA division. Leagues can be arranged in which the winner is the team with the most total points at the end of the season, or in a head-to-head format (which mirrors the actual NFL) in which each team plays against a single opponent each week, and at the end of the year the team with the best win-loss record wins the league. Most leagues set aside the last weeks of the regular season for their own playoffs.”
The number of people who play fantasy football continues to grow by 2-5% per year. Professor Beason reports that the average fantasy football players have been playing for 10 years.
The Sporting Goods Marketing Association recently reported that the average fantasy football participant spends about 45 minutes a day managing his teams, while a survey by West Virginia Wesleyan College found that 60 percent of fantasy sports fans spent more than an hour daily just thinking about their fantasy teams. That’s nearly 2 hours a day (or 238 hours over the course of the 17-week football season) not including watching football on Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Yeeeeshhhhh. Is your fan addicted to Fantasy Sports?
For more information regarding fantasy football checkout:The Savvy Guide to Fantasy Sports
Comments
DONALD LEITA said...
IF YOU ARE A TRUE SPORTS FAN THE BOTTOM LINE IS SEE YOUR SPORT AND PARTY A LITTLE , SO I GOT MY WIFE HOOKED AND WE ENJOY GAMES ,NASCAR ECT.AND PARTY TOGETHER. GOING SEPERATE WAYS IS JUST A WAY TO GET RELATION SHIPS IN TROUBLE,I;M 50 AND SHES 49
September 7, 2007 4:02 PM
Keith said...
Sports Widows should consider redefining "fantasy football" to their advantage. I know of a young bride whose husband kept sneaking away on their honeymoon (in Hawaii, no less!). Was he going off to see another woman? No, he was checking his fantasy football league results. Did I mention it was his honeymoon?
What if he had returned to find a linebacker had taken his place in bed? Fantasy over--at least for him.
Find out what your guy spends per year on fantasy football and have your friends do the same for their men (sorry, I'm assuming these are mostly men).
Then, some Sunday afternoon (maybe this is your "Bye Week is MY Week" activity), sports widows convene in your living room. A buff guy dressed as a football player shows to do a slow striptease. Remember, they don't call them "tight ends" for nothing. Afterwards, he gives all attendees a massage, cleans the kitchen and fixes the screen door. Is that fantasy football or what?
For a few extra bucks, he acts out football terminology such as "end around," "cover 2," "blitz," "tackle," "penetrate the red zone" and "evil pirate boards your ship." OK, I made that last one up.
My point, and I do have one, is not to resist fantasy football. Simply make it work for YOU.
September 8, 2007 7:45 AM