Those around me don’t get it. They say I’m obsessed. They are tired of hearing me ramble about my fantasy players, my stats, my rankings, and my waivers.
They have left me no choice.
With no post in weeks on what may appear to be an abandoned blog, I’m forced to bring my forbidden subject to this site, where I can write about what I want, when I want, and I can switch back and forth to my other tab in a last-minute attempt to pick up some last minute free agents just in time for week 6.
So as I dust the cobwebs off this site, I give you. . .
27 Signs That You’re Overly Obsessed With Fantasy Football
- You spend weeks trying to think of the perfect team name.
- You participate in more than 2 mock drafts.
- You arrange your vacation around Draft Day.
- You show up on draft day with spreadsheets filled with notes and stats and several colors of highlighters.
- You’ve added one more addiction to your cell phone by putting the Fantasy Football app on your front page.
- On Sundays you find yourself refreshing your stats every few minutes.
- You refer to your fantasy players as your “peeps”.
- You spend the first half hour on Monday mornings discussing your fantasy results with your co-workers.
- You spend the next half hour on Monday mornings researching players to pick up off the waiver wire for next week.
- You greet people by asking “How’s your fantasy team doing?”.
- Someone mentions an NFL player and you immediately interject with “He’s on my team!” as you then ramble about some random fantasy football experience. And you fail to notice that they’ve walked away.
- You’re more upset than normal when your cell phone battery is dead…and it’s Sunday…and you have no access to your @&*% stats.
- When you win, you proclaim yourself a fantasy god. When you lose, it’s stupid luck. And so you keep pointing out that had you played that guy on your bench with over 20 points, your opponent would have been dog meat.
- You refer to your vacation as a bye week.
- By week 6, you’ve already replaced half of your original team.
- Your opponent is somehow distracted and you refuse to remind them their starting tight end has a groin injury.
- You’re still beating yourself up by wasting your first round draft pick on Chris Johnson.
- You brag about the guy you just picked up off the waiver wire and you have no idea who the hell he is.
- You watch the simulated game on StatTracker instead of live TV.
- You panic when your fantasy player has 0 points and you can’t determine if he’s actually even in the game.
- You’re so busy celebrating your Monday night win and the fact that nobody in your league had Golden Tate that you completely miss the controversial call against Green Bay until you see the highlight the next morning.
- Worse yet, when your husband wakes up from falling asleep and asks you the final score, you realize you don’t even know.
- You feel shame about wishing for some real injuries so you’ll have the chance to pick up their replacements on the waiver wire.
- You have no favorite team. Even worse, you completely shed your loyalty to your favorite team as you root for your fantasy player to make a touchdown against them–just so you can be the week’s high scorer in your league.
- You have really strong opinions about players who you’ve never watched actually play.
- Your Facebook friends think you’re weird because of your whiny post about Brian Hartline scoring 42 points and being on your bench.
- You talk about your fantasy team with people who clearly don’t care. And you don’t really care that they don’t care. Perhaps you even write a blog post about it.
OK, I may be obssessed. I can check off about 10 of them
Sadly, I think I’m all of them. And still, my team this year is terrible.
Mine are bouncing back! All three of my fantasy teams are in the top third right now of their leagues
Not mine, they still suck. And what’s worse is that while I tried to reply to your comment, I just published it as a post that says “my team still sucks”. Rough day.
Another Sunday wasted, but worth it!
I’m really frustrated now. Yahoo went down and I couldn’t change out my players just before the game. The one match-up I had a chance to win, and I blew it. Left Eli in and had Andy Dalton on the bench. That’s -2 (yes, minus) vs. at least 35 points. Yikes!
I can’t even go there. If I start with a fantasy football team I’ll do nothing else all day…and with three people in the house with multiple fantasy teams I’m the only one who can dig us out from under the pile of laundry.
I do laundry on Sundays, as I check stats between loads. It’s sad…it really is.
My neighbors and you would get along well! The whole family is involved in the fantasy football picks!
It really is fun, except that my team is terrible this year. All my guys have groin injuries. I wish my family played so they’d get it, haha.
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Well bless your little heart! Thank you so much. I feel so unworthy lately since I’ve slacked on both blogging and reading others’ blogs. I have so much catching up to do. But this helps to inspire me. Thanks so much for thinking of me!
I’m clearly not obsessed enough with Fantasy Football, because I forgot when the draft was, got ‘autopicked’ and ended up with Chris Johnson in the 1st round
Yes, autopick is not good. I had Chris Johnson 2 years ago, and he was the #1 draft pick then. I was 1st. I’m still pissed about that. Yet I got Arian Foster in round 8 back then. He saved me. Johnson is so overrated.
Haha! You know waaaay too much about this….are you one of them??
My daughter broke up with a boy b/c he was OBSESSED with fantasy football. Great way to chase away girls!
Haha, I am one of them! That’s too funny about your daughter. Then again, my hubby likes football, but doesn’t want to hear about my fantasy team at all. I guess you have to play to get it.
Fantasy baseball is more my thing, but yeah, I get this.
That may be my next big thing. But with sooo many games, I’d be a complete wreck, haha.
i’m obsessed with those who are obsessed with fantasy football. it’s an obsession of mine.
Good to know I’m not alone. I just regret that I didn’t join multiple leagues this year!