America’s Favorite Fantasy.

Fantasy Football, for those that don’t know, is a virtual sports competition where people manage professional football players against one another.

In the virtual Fantasy Football experience, the person playing acts as the general manager of their team. They have the power to pick players, release players, claim players, and trade players internally throughout the league. Leagues usually consist of a large group of friends who are interested in taking each other’s money and getting bragging rights after the season is over.

“[My favorite part about Fantasy Football] is smack-talking the next day at school after you beat somebody,” said senior Cody Cashman.

Fantasy Football is quickly becoming one of the most popular activities during the fall season.

When a person’s favorite real-life team is doing terribly, they can still hope for success in their Fantasy Football team because they can count on players from a wide variety of teams that may be doing better.

Fantasy football is a good way to stay involved with other teams around the league and is perfect for friendly competition amongst a group of football-following friends.

“It gets you more excited about the games,” said senior Brandon Corbett. “Also it’s fun beating your friends.”

Some leagues choose to set up wagers of usually ten bucks, which if it is a league of ten to fourteen people can add up very quickly for the winner of the league.

“We bet with money to make things more interesting,” said Corbett. “Ten dollars a person in a fourteen person league.”

Placing a wager, even if it isn’t money, provides an incentive for people to continue to check and change the rosters of their teams throughout the entire season.

Fantasy Football also helps with the viewing of the National Football League on television because people don’t just tune in to watch their teams play, but instead they tune in to watch members of other teams play so they can keep track of a player on their fantasy team.

Even though obscene amounts of time can be sucked up by checking and changing a person’s team around, following your team’s success is worth it in the end.

“During computer class I waste time updating my team and looking up fantasy scores,” said senior David Jo. “But it’s a bonding experience with the boys.”