Fantasy Ethos

With the fantasy football season officially over with the conclusion of the regular season (if you are one of those weird leagues that uses the playoffs, you are truly crazy yet commendable at the same time), you may be looking for things to do to fill the void in your life that fantasy football has left. Because, I care about our readers, I thought I would jot down some things that you may want to dedicate some time to over the next few months. At least until July, when you can reasonably be allowed/expected to spend countless hours on your fantasy football team(s).

  1. There used to be a time when your jeans did not require a shoe horn to put-on. When you spend 10 hours a week watching football, checking live scoring, and drinking the beverage of your choice, you are bound to put on a few pounds. Time to get to the gym.
  2. Remember in November when you were busy watching the waiver wire and your wife was rushed to the hospital and then came back two days later with a miniature person? That was your new baby. Go meet that little cutie.
  3. Speaking of your wife. Remember her? You might want to get back into her good graces. Perhaps start by parrying down your Honey-Do list and take her out to dinner where the television in the bar is not visible from your seats. This applies to girlfriends and various other significant others.
  4. Volunteer. Seriously. You have all this free time, and you may actually be able to do some good. Plus, with incentive programs like Give a Day, Get a Disney Day or Give a Day, Get a Night at a Sage Hotel, there is no real reason not to volunteer.
  5. Learn to snowboard. Learn to play golf. In other words, learn a sport that requires you to use those muscles in your legs that have atrophied from all of those hours sitting at your computer.
  6. Get that degree in economics. Far-fetched? With your new ability to divide by 25 and 10 in your head combined with your ability to determine undervalued and overvalued players based on each player’s ADP, you are already half-way there. You’re so money!
  7. The last time you read something that did not contain the words “flex slot” or “sleeper pick” was probably in June of last year. Time for you to catch up on the news of the world. Start with the Balloon Boy Hoax. That might be a good puff piece to get you back in the flow.
  8. Now that you have run the 10K of fantasy football, time for you to complete in the marathon that is fantasy baseball. Just for kicks, make sure it is a daily moves league. After watching you get involved in just one fantasy baseball season, your wife will beg you to play fantasy football only.
  9. Plan an elaborate revenge against the Colts’ Jim Caldwell for benching Peyton Manning during your fantasy football championship game. Actually, after watching Wes Welker tear his ACL and MCL in a mostly meaningless game, Caldwell made the right decision.
  10. You could just decide there is no-offseason and monitor every bit of fantasy football news for the next few months while the slackers focus on all of the rest of the items on this list.

If you have any other suggestions, please feel free to share them below.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 4th, 2010 at 9:00 am.
By: Derrick Eckardt | Categories: Fantasy Football.

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  1. Learn to play golf. Yes, we hear that there is an opening on the PGA tour…..

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