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Original Air Date: 12/29/2008 1:00 AM UTC
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Date / Time: 12/16/2008 6:48 AM UTC
Stand back. I'm about to commit treason, heresy and other various forms of slander in the eyes of the nation's rabid NFL fans:
I hate fantasy football. Hate it. Hate it so much that I refuse to capitalize the f's, as if it's a sanctioned league unto itself. And if you're wondering, no, I've never played it. Never wanted to. Never will. Thanks for asking.
Every year about this time, with everyone's fantasy drafts just around the corner, I'm deluged with people wanting to know some inside scoop or tidbit of information that might help them assemble their roster. I try to help. I really do. But my heart's not in it, because I really detest the whole idea of fantasy football.
My standard line is that I have enough trouble keeping track of everything NFL-related in reality, so there's no time for extending my work world into the realm of make-believe. But that's not really the whole story. The truth is there are a lot of reasons why the fantasy game just doesn't appeal to me.
And yes, I realize this rant qualifies as biting the hand that feeds me.
While the NFL has truly been America's favorite pastime for the past 40 years or so, the rise and monstrous popularity of fantasy football in the past two decades has fueled interest in the league to unparalleled heights. It's not a stretch to say the voracious appetite that NFL fans have for information -- a hunger that helps keep me employed -- is at least partly attributable to the fantasy craze.
I know that, and appreciate the paychecks, but I'm still not a fantasy guy. Here are my top 10 reasons why:
1. It changes how you watch a game. We all have some experience with a person who has perfectly illustrated this point from time to time. Being a fantasy player means you can't see the forest for the trees. Rather than watching a game in its context and meaning to the standings, fantasy folks often ignore the big picture, focusing only on how their players are performing around the league.
Every week in press boxes around the NFL during the regular season, I can easily pick out the fantasy players among my fellow reporters. They're the ones who are ticked off that Pittsburgh's Jerome Bettis just scored on another 1-yard touchdown run. Not because they're anti-Steelers, but because they started Duce Staley in their backfield and needed the all-important six points in their quest for the final playoff berth.
Point-spread bettors have been doing the same thing for decades, of course, watching a game not for who wins or loses, but for who covers and who doesn't. It's like tuning into NBC Nightly News not to find out what went on in the world that day, but to count the number of times Brian Williams uses the word "Pentagon.'' It elevates the irrelevant to a level of real importance.
For some, staying attuned exclusively to the bottom line isn't enough. But until they start giving out a big shiny silver trophy for point-spread winners and fantasy championships, keeping track of the winning and losing teams is enough for me.
2. It glorifies stat accumulators at the expense of team players. All you need to know about what's wrong with the fantasy game can be summed up in this fact: Because of his superior statistics, Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is far more valuable in fantasy football than Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Never mind that Manning can't beat Brady in a real game to save his life. Manning is 0-6 head-to-head against Brady in his career, including losses in each of the past two postseasons.
But it doesn't matter in fantasy-land, where some numbers are far more significant than the final score.
3. It makes heroes out of problem children. Randy Moss is a heck of a fantasy player. But that didn't keep the Vikings from deciding he was all-too-expendable this offseason. Fantasy players don't really care if Moss leaves the field with two seconds remaining and a kickoff still to come. They don't care if he sows turmoil in the locker room, becomes a headache for team management, and gives his quarterback nothing but trouble.
Moss wasn't special enough to make the Vikings a Super Bowl team, but he does rack up the fantasy points, and that means all is forgiven by the millions of players who draft him every year.
4. The geek factor. Sorry, but we have a name for people whose primary source of entertainment stems from stuff that didn't really happen. They're called Trekkies.
In the immortal words of William Shatner, playing himself at a Star Trek convention on Saturday Night Live, sometimes I'd like to shake a couple of the fantasy players in my midst and say, "Look at you people. Did you ever kiss a girl?''
5. The death of the NFL offseason. I realize this is a purely selfish one, but I happen to believe that in most things, less is more. I blame fantasy football for the NFL game's current status as a year-round, 24/7 national obsession. If there really is an NFL offseason any more, I don't know when it takes place. Maybe the two or three weeks before training camps open, but even then, there's still something going on that creates a headline or two in Paul Tagliabue's fiefdom.
Whatever happened to the quaint notion that you can't miss something if it never really goes away?
6. It's ridiculously and unfairly skewered toward offense and touchdown-makers. Any game that makes short shrift of the skills of a Dick Butkus, Deacon Jones, Bubba Smith, Lawrence Taylor or Ronnie Lott and what they contributed to the lore of the NFL is hopelessly out of whack in my estimation.
Defense still wins championships in real-life football. But in the fantasy game, defenders are bit players, in place only to be scored upon by all those coveted offensive stars. It's like trying to put together a baseball team with no concern for a pitching staff or fielding. The balance between offense and defense is one of football's greatest strengths, and makes it the ultimate team game. But not in fantasy world.
7. All those confusing and divided loyalties. It's not enough to follow the league and root for your favorite team any more. Instead of having a team to live and die for -- say, the Bears -- fantasy players must now root for a division rival's quarterback, because, well, Daunte Culpepper was their second-round pick.
Is nothing sacred?
8. The expert phenomena. Fantasy football transforms average fans into quasi-general managers, and Lord knows we've got enough experts to go around in today's world. Some of them even write about the NFL on the Internet.
I wouldn't have as big a problem with fantasy football if it really was a nice little diversion, something to keep track of while you're watching the real games unfold. But why do we need the game within the game, when the diversion overwhelms the importance of our original diversion? Folks take fantasy football so darn seriously that all else seems to pale in comparison.
Get real, people. It's not so difficult or tedious.
9. The money aspect. I'm shocked, shocked to learn there's gambling going on in this establishment. I'm no Pollyanna, but it seems to me that the money gets a little bigger every year in every league. Fine. I know it spices up the action on the field and makes everything more interesting to watch. But, and I'm not breaking this story, money tends to corrupt a thing or two in this world. You can look it up.
And the anti-gambling NFL reeks of hypocrisy for its embrace of fantasy football -- which you can play on its NFL.com site -- albeit without money being involved. That's as rich as the league looking the other way all these years when it comes to the Vegas betting lines, even while it maintains its staunch no-gambling policy.
10. The trendiness of it all. Some times I think everybody loves fantasy football but me. Which just might be a good enough reason alone to walk into the wind or swim against the tide. I mean, somebody has to register dissent. It's still a very American principle, isn't it? After all, popular opinion isn't always right. And conventional wisdom sometimes isn't either.
Just throwing out some facts that I believe in, it is getting way to complicated and why in the world pay for something that was free once before....Capitalist I say!!
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/don_banks/08/24/inside.nfl/index.html
Original Air Date: 12/15/2008 1:00 AM UTC
Date / Time: 12/14/2008 7:57 PM UTC
The Dallas Morning News said that Owens told Witten not to talk to him after the tight end tried to talk to the controversial wide receiver about a pass route during practice.
"Obviously I have a lot of respect for Terrell and I think it's the same way," Witten said after practice, the Morning News said. "He's a helluva player."
Philadelphia Eagles right tackle Jon Runyan told ESPN that the situation in Dallas is what they faced when Owens was on their team.
"It's already happened here," he said. "We know exactly what they're going through. The problem is that it divides the team. People are drawing lines and taking sides."
On Friday, Wade Phillips insisted there were no rifts in his locker room, Jerry Jones dismissed rumors of inner turmoil, and Roy Williams wore a Santa hat but hardly sounded merry.
This is how the Dallas Cowboys made their case Friday that everything is just fine at Valley Ranch.
Before a pivotal game Sunday night against the NFC-leading New York Giants, the Cowboys fended off questions about divisive secret meetings, an unhappy Terrell Owens and cornerback Terence Newman’s frank comments about accountability.
“I am not worried about a divided locker room,” Phillips said.
It began with individual meetings Owens, Williams and wide receiver Patrick Crayton had with Cowboys offensive coordinator Jason Garrett this week. The Cowboys characterized the meetings as normal, but the timing hinted at frustrations over their roles.
That followed a report by ESPN, citing anonymous sources, that quarterback Tony Romo and tight end Jason Witten sketched out plays in private meetings. The Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram also reported, again using unnamed sources, that the Cowboys receivers felt Romo favored Witten in games and practices.
In last week’s loss to the Steelers, Romo targeted Witten on his last of three interceptions. He also threw incomplete to Witten on fourth down in what was the last gasp for Dallas.
Owens didn’t speak to reporters in the locker room Friday, and Williams and Crayton stayed mostly on-message about playing the Giants. The Cowboys held a team meeting Friday morning, but neither Phillips nor players provided much details.
“This has nothing to do with the media or anyone else who is not a Dallas Cowboy,” Williams said. “I am a Dallas Cowboy, therefore I am loyal to the Dallas Cowboys.”
Deluged with questions about whether the Cowboys (8-5) are trying to mend divides at a crucial point in the season, Phillips dismissed the reports as non-issues and inventions of the media.
“Everything is set straight as far as I’m concerned,” he said. “I think the players, too. We’ll see.”
Witten leads the Cowboys with 64 catches. Owens is second with 55 receptions and has nine touchdowns, the most on the team.
Jones said he visited with Owens at practice Thursday, but the Cowboys owner said he never discussed with his star player whether he was concerned about Romo’s relationship with Witten. Jones said they talked about the team and preparation.
“I spent 10 minutes talking with him on an individual basis, so I guess you could say we had a meeting yesterday,” Jones said Friday in his weekly interview with Dallas radio station KTCK. “I’m not trying to be trite. There are meetings going on everywhere.”
Reports of locker room troubles come at a particularly inopportune time for Dallas. With three games left, the Cowboys can hardly afford to lose their focus if they want to make the playoffs.
Dallas would sneak in as the final wild-card team if the playoffs began this week. But Atlanta has an identical record, andPhiladelphia, Chicago and Washington aren’t far behind.
In yet another issue, Friday began with Newman telling ESPN that coaches need to be accountable for their mistakes as much as the players, though he didn’t cite any specific examples.
He later told reporters in the locker room he said those remarks publicly in hopes those in the organization would hear his comments and adhere to them.
“The players for the most part are always saying ’Hey, that’s my bad,”’ Newman said. “I think we just need to own up when we don’t do something we’re expected (to do). That’s for everybody.”
Running back Marion Barber is listed as questionable for Sunday after missing last week with a dislocated toe. Phillips said Barber has been able to run ahead full speed but still isn’t make cuts as sharp as he can.
Original Air Date: 12/8/2008 1:00 AM UTC
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