Sunday was the first game of the new NFL season. Everyone was excited to welcome in the new year. Fans prepared with elaborate tailgate rituals at stadiums or populated bars with buddies and couches were full of fat asses, beer, pop and potato chip crumbs.
What were fans really that excited about though? Was it the NFL or was it Fantasy Football?
Fantasy Football has taken over as the most watched sport on Sunday's. Everyone watches for certain players rather than teams. If your home team wins it is a bonus on a Sunday afternoon compared to if your fantasy team wins.
People are now involved in multiple leagues with different groups of friends or work colleagues, so many in fact that you can watch any game and have a vested interest. Even the Denver vs. Cincinnati game on the weekend, you could watch because Brandon Marshall was a late round steal, but you started him anyway since he wasn't suspended. You watched all game hoping Kyle Orton would target him and Tony Scheffler wouldn't steal a red zone touchdown.
I should have been happy with the Donovan McNabb injury (not in a mean way, just as a fan of a rival NFC team), but I couldn't take pleasure in it, since I have him as my QB on one of my teams (that team sucks). What should take precedence here?
Football and other sports were always worried gambling on the games was bad for the sport, but could fantasy football be worse? With nobody cheering for teams, people deciding to watch the games from their couch so they can follow all of their fantasy players and as the rapper Wale recently said "you ain't nothing until you spend $10 000 on fantasy football" could the games actually get corrupted?
Lots of questions and not alot of answers...do you think Fantasy Football is ruining the NFL or is the best thing that ever happened to it?
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