Ladies, it’s time. It’s autumn and we all know what that means. It’s time for apple picking, eating cider donuts, multiple trips to the pumpkin patch and the opportunity to break out the brown boots and scarves. It’s sweater weather!
Although fall brings a lot to the table for women, these outings and wardrobe changes are trifling to men. Males have something different in mind. I’m learning recently about the exciting activity that distracts most men in my life currently. With the capability of addiction as Facebook and the enthusiasm for day after Thanksgiving sales, it’s capturing the hearts of many.
Guys, it’s time. It’s autumn and that means one thing: football season, a special time of the year when you will dedicate your free time toward researching, drafting and discussing your fantasy team.
Men have tried to explain the difficulty in organizing a team and yet somehow, I still struggle with truly understanding the concept behind imaginary players for a fake team that people pretend they are the coach of. Maybe it’s all that estrogen.
I’m trying though. I’m recognizing the activity of fantasy football isn’t an easy as I thought. Dedicated to watching teams they don’t even like, reviewing headlines, reading expert insight, and checking their smartphones twenty times an hours, these guys are committed. Of course, we females have every right to question the lifestyle of the activity as the guys enjoy their imaginary football parties.
From my patience, I’ve been able to learn some intricacies, a few secrets and even found my own place in the world of fantasy football.
At the end of the day though, as I hang in the towel and release the grasp on my smartphone updates, I find myself in a complex gender match. I have such a hard time understanding the joy behind fantasy football where everything seems so make believe. But then a friend of mine pointed out to me the parallel with something stealing the hearts of women: Pinterest.
“You can’t do that,” I said questioning his ability to truly make the comparison. Then, he proved me wrong.
“You plan imaginary weddings, dress children who don’t exist and decorate homes you can’t afford.”
Luckily, my gender left me although challenged, never wrong.
I hope someday I can truly appreciate it the way I hope my husband can appreciate the pinned crafts and quotes layered with typography and pretty pictures.
My friend made an impressive argument but still, I remain hesitant. There are some players, a distinct type, who make me second guess the whole activity of fantasy football. These people simply like fantasy football far too much.
This isn’t the average fan who, around dinner time, is coughing up his food at his computer screen as his favorite player takes a tackle. This is about the players who are teetering on the brink of lunacy and dementia.
There are some fans that are so intense they play for money. Essentially, there are two kinds of fantasy football managers in the world:
1. The ones who compete for fun.
2. The ones who bet the house for any given season.
Those players must worry of the likelihood of losing more cash than they are willing to admit to their wife. She needs that scarf fund after all.
Maybe if you’re a lucky man though, your bookie will allow you to enter into a five-year finance program. This, however admirable and generous of your friend, is not socially acceptable in any way, shape or form, lending proof of your intense and seemingly unhealthy devotion to fantasy football.
Another sort of fan finds God in his tough times throughout the season.
“Please father, let my team annihilate Steve from marketing…”
It’s the B-line back to the pew kind of guy to have a conference call with the big man upstairs. If this has happened to you, you not only like fantasy football way too much but you should probably address the proper usage of in-house prayer. Not everybody I meet is crazy. Not until they spend more time with me anyway.
There are some intense, far too devoted fantasy football players who make me skeptical of truly getting sucked in.
But for now, I’m learning to enjoy it.
Imagine this: You’re reading sports commentary columns while drafting and drinking hot cider, embracing the dramatic plays and amazing athletes making historical moments of glorious football.
Can anything really establish the proper fall season better?
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