If you haven’t noticed, it is now fall, and when it’s fall, it is football season. When it’s time for football, it means millions of people around the world will draft the best NFL players in their greatest efforts to beat their friends to avoid doing some bad punishments.
In case you don’t know, fantasy football is one of the most popular things in the United States because of its unpredictability, and it makes people think they are a general manager of their own football team.
“I like it because I like beating my friends,” said junior Leo Nagg.
Like Nagg, many people at Knoch love fantasy football, and are in many leagues.
“I am in four leagues with a lot of my friends,” said Nagg. “Alex Eddy, Dylan Roth, and Dylan’s family, just to name a few.”
Others, like me, focus on winning in just one league.
“I am in one league officially,” said junior Savannah Hoculock, “but I am in four more just to practice my drafting.”
At the time I am making this, only a couple weeks have passed, so there is still lots of time left in the season, but that doesn’t stop people complaining about some poor starts.
“In week one, Nico Collins was trash,” said Hoculock. “and in week two Derrick Henry sucked.”
“My most disappointing players have been Courtland Sutton and rookie Omarion Hampton,” said senior Cam Christie.
While some start slow, others have been the complete opposite, for example, new Colts QB Daniel Jones.
“DANNY DIMES has been the biggest steal for me. Definitely starting him in week three,” said Hoculock. “Getting traded was the best thing that has ever happened to him.”
She is right: he has been a crazy steal. I was lucky enough to have the waiver wire on my side and picked him up after week one, and he has been going crazy. I don’t think he was the problem with the Giants.
Again, this unpredicted breakout is what makes fantasy so fun and exciting, but the punishments are probably why some, if not most, play the game.
“Our punishment is spending 24 hours inside of an IHOP,” said Christie. “But every pancake you eat is an hour off.”
I don’t know how they are going to do this one, IHOPs are only open for 15 hours maximum, but I guess I could eat at least nine pancakes in 15 hours.
Throughout the country, making someone spend 24 hours in a location is a pretty popular punishment, though my favorite is making someone rent an instrument they don’t play and get them to play it outside an event like sports or a concert, and they have to keep playing until they get $100.
Anyway, whether you play for a punishment or not, fantasy football brings people around the country together to compete against one another in something everybody watches,
“In one league I play with the Knoch hockey players,” said Christie, “but in my other league, it’s a bunch of graduated lacrosse players. I don’t think I would’ve kept in touch with them if not for fantasy.”
