Football Madness: Guilty

I'm playing in four fantasy leagues currently and co-chair (AKA I am the voice of wisdom and drafted the team) to one of my brother's teams. I'm amazed at how much "water cooler" conversation is purely football related. I've been asked a LOT about all kinds of players, my feelings and thoughts on a HUGE variety of things, all related to FANTASY football. Nobody asks me about who I think is going to win the AFC East, or anything related to real football, but what round to draft Jimmy Graham or Rob Gronkowski has been brought up a few times. Gambling on individual games has been replaced by trying to run your own team of skill players. Outsmarting your friends in a competitive environment is always fun, but I'm still astounded at the popularity of fantasy football. Work leagues, friend leagues, random people leagues, auction, points per reception, TD only, 10 people, 12 people, 14 people, CRAZINESS. Football naturally has dominated fantasy sports due to the fact it's one game/week per team. Baseball is too long and time consuming, basketball isn't popular enough and is also time consuming. NASCAR and golf are easy and WAYYY more popular than I expected.

Where do fantasy sports go from here? Do they keep becoming more specific and adding new folds into the mix, or will the juggernaut subside at all? I have no clue where this blog is going, so I can't possibly answer that question, but I am VERY interested in it. I normally donate my money to the fantasy monster, but I'm all too willing every year to jump in on a multitude of leagues. I've bought into fantasy everything, I'm just curious as to what's keeping everyone out? Could we play fantasy muciscians? Touring + album sales + MP 3 sales or some equation. Celebrity death pools? There's something for everyone, GET INTO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No idea where this one came from.