While tonight’s game between the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers kicks off the football season, it also kicks off Fantasy football season too. My teams is ready, is yours? And if it is, will disaster strike your team like it did my friend Jason’s team last year (see #3 of the posting)? Apparently, Tom Brady’s knee screwed a lot of people last year. On one hand, he was out for the season. On the other, he got to spend more time with his sexy wife. The rest of us just had to suck it up and take it. All that time and energy drafting the perfect team straight down the crapper.
Or you could have picked Plaxico Burress and Larry Johnson. These two were benched by their own teams for acting badly. Then Plaxico shot himself in the leg to make sure he couldn’t play!
But now we can protect ourselves. Knowing that things can go catastrophically wrong, you can get Fantasy Football insurance! From CNN:
Henry Olszewski was stoked in 2008 when he, along with millions of Americans, drafted New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to his fantasy football team.
About eight minutes into the season, a 220-pound safety was blocked into Brady’s knee, tearing two of the quarterback’s ligaments. Brady’s season ended, as did Olszewski’s.
“That Monday, [Olszewski] came in the office, and he was bummed out,” said Anthony Giaccone, president of Intermarket Insurance. “He asked, ‘Why can’t we buy insurance for fantasy team players?’ ”
Thus spawned the brainchild for Fantasy Sports Insurance, which guarantees that NFL players won’t miss a certain number of games. FSI will reimburse a fantasy player’s entry fee if they do.
It’s one of a blitz of bizarre businesses cropping up in the $800 million industry of turning quarterback stats to greenbacks, said Paul Charchian, president of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.
So feel free to play to your heart’s content knowing that you’ve got a safety net if Adrian Peterson blows a knee or Brett Favre retires in Week 3 only to unretire in Week 6. Good luck. Unless you’re in my league, of course!
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Cool post!
This is why I tend to look more at the losers in sports rather than focus on the winners. ( see the College Football Futility Rankings at: http://firstworstfootball.thewebinfocenter.com )
Fantasy football has become a surreal way to interact with others.