She will instantly recognise the passing - yet genuine - sense of shame all fantasy football players feel when they explain themselves to a real person. “Your team.”I never feel less impressive than when fantasy football comes up in the company of people who don’t play fantasy football. Fantasy football is a PacMan, chomping away at the finite number of dots of leisure time you are able to box off from the regular world. Fantasy football tends to a patch of our garden that would look so much better if we left it to be grown over naturally. A prince among my peersI am the worst kind of Fantasy Football player in that I was good at it once.

Source: The Irish Times September 12, 2020 06:00 UTC