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NFL fans gamble on talent of players
Ben Lohmeier
Mesa Legend
Fantasy football used to be a hobby for nerds with pocket protectors, who actually liked crunching the numbers of their fantasy players. Now, in the day-and-age of computers and the Internet, fantasy football is at everyone’s fingertips, and all of the fantasy sites now do the scoring for the teams and players.
“It keeps me interested in the NFL,” said MCC student Sheldon Angelo, 21. “This way when I’m watching football on Sunday, whichever game is on, I usually have a player on one of the two teams, so I can actually somewhat care about the game.”
Now the NFL promotes fantasy football and anyone can see that with a fantasy line going across the bottom of every television screen in the nation, on the stations like ABC, FOX and ESPN.
“I don’t even like the NFL that much,” said Phil Whitney, 21, also of MCC. “But my boys do it and they talked me into it this year. It’s easy enough, all I really have to do is change my lineup every week and pick a player up here and there.”
There are different ways to go about playing fantasy football, but most sites resemble this: each person “owns” their own team. At the beginning of the NFL season, a draft is held and during the draft an “owner” drafts a team like he would for a real NFL team, trying to get the best possible players that are left out there.
Each week during the season, the “owner” stars a quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers, a defense and a kicker, or something very close to that as in different leagues, it may vary. Each player gets so many points for a touchdown, a reception, a completion or even an interception. At the end of the NFL games that week, whatever site people play on tally up the points between the two owners, to determine the winner.
“I play in a league where each team throws in a hundred bills before the season starts,” said second year MCC student, Ryan Piggie, 20. “We have fourteen teams and that’s a lot of money out there. The team that wins it all, gets around a thousand. I play because I like football and I want to win the money.”
The fun of it comes anywhere from the smack talking from buddy to buddy each week that you play one of them or the excitement one can enjoy while watching one of "his" players each Sunday shine.
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