Fantasy Football? No Thanks!

Its that time of the year again. The time when all of your coworkers and friends begin to ask and beg you to join their fantasy football leagues. And its the time of the year when I repeatedly tell them all no, I have plenty of time consuming distractions already. I dont need yet another excuse to park my rear on a bar stool at the local pub and watch 11 feeds from the NFL on Sunday.

Everyone I know who is in a league becomes obsessed with player stats, scores, the draft, the weekly matchups and more. I already have several obsessions that I document in this space, and I really don’t want another one. My rear end doesnt want the extra hours on a bar stool. My liver doesnt want the extra alcohol. My wife doesnt want me spending any additional hours with my nose in my laptop researching football scores.

So to all of my friends and collegues- Thanks, but no thanks. It will be a long enough season already having to listen to all of your endless bragging about how your team is doing and how your QB rating and running back yardage is doing. I just don’t want to play your reindeer games.

And that goes double for college fantasy teams!