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Fantasy Football, Taking Football to New Levels
Rebecca Fernandez
Axia College of University of Phoenix
COM 125 Utilizing Information in College Writing
Patty Lucas
October 28, 2006 Fantasy Football, Taking Football to New Levels

Football Sunday, the family has got a bucket of hot wings and beer, sitting in front of the TV waiting for the kick off. It's Denver Broncos vs. San Diego Chargers and I have got my Champ Bailey jersey on while my husband is wearing his Tomlinson 21. We are ready for the game to start, but suddenly my husband changes the channel to check on the Cincinnati vs. Tampa bay game, so he can check on his fantasy football quarterback. Meanwhile I'm on the internet checking on my fantasy football defense, the Pittsburg Steelers. I find myself wondering why we just don't sit down and watch our favorite NFL teams anymore. Before we joined our fantasy football league, the only games I would sit and watch were the Denver Broncos, because they are my home team. I know the players and when and where they are playing. As for the rest of the NFL teams, I didn't know anything until I got caught up in the fantasy football excitement. With the newly founded popularity of fantasy football, the old ways of football are obsolete, now there is more interest in individual players than teams, more knowledge of the game, and better media coverage.

Fantasy Football is game where participants, also known as "owners", draft a team of real-life NFL players and then score points based on how those players perform in real-life games. The game was originated back in 1962 and is now a big business industry due to the Internet (Wikipedia, 2006). Fantasy football is the most popular fantasy sport in the United States. "The Fantasy Sports Trade Association's 2005 numbers show that more than 6 percent of adults (more than 13 million) play fantasy sports games, including more than 10 million in fantasy football" (Griffith, 2005, Fantasy Exceeds, 6).

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References: Gray, A. (2006, Sep 27). Fantasy football: An interactive NFL fantasy. Capital. Annapolis, C 3 Griffith, B. (2005, Dec 25). Fantasy exceeds wildest imagination. The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 10, 2006, from like Yahoo! and Sporting News, but upstarts like AOL want a slice of the gridiron pie. Business Week Online. Retrieved October 8, 2006, from InfoTrac OneFile database. Meltzer, J. (2006, Sep 4). Calling all pigskin players.(Sprint and Mobile ESPN offer fantasy football on cell phones)(Brief article) September 29, 2006, from InfoTrac OneFile database. Riley-Kats, A dream. (NFL Network launches sports television program). Los Angeles Business Journal, 27(46), 14. Retrieved September 28, 2006, from InfoTrac OneFile database. Wikipedia. (n.d.). Fantasy football (American). Retrieved October 15, 2006, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_football_%28American%29
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