Why is it so addicting to me? There are tons and tons of reasons. I'm a list guy, so lets keep with list format. (Note: These are numbered because I'm OCD about numbered lists, there is no specific order)
1) Fantasy football gives you a reason to watch games you frankly don't give a shit about.
Know what meant absolutely nothing to me before I began doing fantasy football? A Packers-Vikings Monday Night Football game. Two teams my team will never play against in an important game and its kickoff is borderline bedtime.
Enter Fantasy Football
This meaningless game now has Adrian Peterson and Greg Jennings for you versus Aaron Rodgers and a kicker in a close fantasy football game. This game has now gone from meaningless to literally every single play (Even in a blowout) being important. It gives Sunday and Monday Night a whole new dynamic. You're watching and rooting for the Bengals, sure, but you're also checking your score app or following games on your laptop as well.
And god gave us his only son.
(shit, is that blasphemy?)
Fantasy Football is even great for the NFL as a whole. When people watch games they otherwise wouldn't care about, it makes more money for the sport. The more profitable the sport is, the better it should get for the teams, players, and fans.
2) Fantasy Football Draft Day is Second only to Christmas
My friends and I will literally begin discussing the fantasy football draft two months before the draft day. It is such an important day, it has to be discussed at length. You strategize and scheme of what players you'd like to get. Its funny, because no matter how much you prepare and think about what everyone is going to do, someone still throws a wrench in your plans by drafting someone way out of order or keeping James Jones. (lol)
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After months and weeks of strategizing and planning for the draft, draft day finally arrives. Draft day consists of hanging out with 10 of your good buddies, drinking beer, eating pizza, having a good time. When the draft ends, its time for a throw back high school style guys night house party. (high school style, because no girls would hang out with us) The night cap is spending an hour straight looking at your team and thinking you did a sick job this year. You follow that up by analyzing the other teams and concluding which ones suck and which ones you are concerned about.
5 weeks later the regular season starts and you realized that you're a complete retard and every assumption you made was piss poor. Your team sucks, and that team you weren't worried about is making it rain.
3) Fantasy Football is Always Good Conversation
From pretty much the beginning of August through the end of December is fantasy football season. There is always something to talk about, or debate, or argue about when it comes to fantasy football. There are trade talks, trash talking, and all sorts of good conversation. There is the depressing admission of defeat "oh well fuck me I guess Jamaal Charles is just going to go for 5 TD this game." To the ridiculous Monday night comeback win where you had no chance but thanks to a series of fluke plays, you sneak out an extremely undeserved win. I don't think 12 hours of my day goes by during these months where I don't see one fantasy football related discussion between friends, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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(I didn't really make this)
Oh, and if you're awesome like me and can win a league or two, you make money! (Suck it, team Chest Hair)
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