Mr. White’s -Fantasy football makes no sense-

I need someone to explain to me the fascination with fantasy football. ESPN recently aired a fantasy football draft in prime time. It consisted of ESPN employees/commentators and actual football players picking football players to construct a “team.” In fact, the team is not actually a team of 46 players; rather, on offense, it is an amalgam of position players from different teams, and on defense, it is one team’s defense. The offensive players do not play with each other and it is possible for them to be playing against each other on any given Sunday, or as I like to call it, the actual game. Granted, the watching of actual games takes on a new meaning when you have to keep track of how your defense is doing, while waiting to see how all of your offensive players performed, but there seems to be a problem. Fantasy football alters the experience of watching actual games to the point where the games no longer have their original significance. So, the only reason I can come up with, as to why one would want to participate in fantasy football, is that one wants their experience altered. Whether it is because the actual games have lost their interest, or one needs a reason to watch many games at one time, this is the only motivation I can see. True, football is not nearly the most athletic sport out there, but still the strategy (what about the hitting?) is what makes it interesting and fantasy football does not involve any of this strategy, BECAUSE THE PLAYERS DO NOT ACTUALLY PLAY TOGETHER. So as you get ready to draft your team, could you please ask yourself why you are doing it and let me know, thank you.

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