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EVERYONE SKINS THEIR KNEE EVENTUALLY: At some point in our recess
career, we all remember the day when we fell to the ground, skinned our
knee and went crying to the recess monitor for an all-soothing Band-Aid. It
happens to the best of us and knocks us out of the fun and games for a day
or more. In fantasy football, even the best of managers will lose a key player
to injury. Your entire season goes down the drain with one turned knee by
your star quarterback – but such is life. (Note: In my experience, Band-Aids
don’t help in fantasy games as much as they did on the playground.)
NO NAME CALLING: The quickest way to find yourself losing recess time,
friends and writing sentences over and over on the blackboard was to call
your classmates mean and creative names. Name-calling is a definite no-no
at 6 years old. Fantasy football turns this rule on it ear as team managers
regularly look for the most creative variations of players’ names to create
their teams’ names. Many are not suitable for a family publication but a
few creative team names I’ve seen include Baby Got Dak (Dak Prescott),
Touchdown Breesus (Drew Brees), Saved by Le’Bell (Leveon Bell) Good(win)
Will Hunting (Marquise Goodwin, Will Fuller and Kareem Hunt) and Guns
and Rosens (Josh Rosen).
IT’S ALL JUST FOR FUN: At the end of recess it doesn’t matter whether
you won or lost. It makes no difference if you are the best tag player or the
worse at double Dutch. After recess, we all go back to math class. I have had
many fantasy football Tuesday mornings when I was bummed out about
losing by a hundredth of a point to Troy, my friend who will rub in my loss
for months, even to the point of being in a bad mood. But at the end of the
day, it’s just a game.
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I have been playing fantasy football for over 20 years, far longer than my
grade school recess career. I recently read that each year over 60 million
Americans participate in fantasy sports like football, NASCAR, baseball and
even cricket. That’s 1 in 5 Americans playing fantasy sports!
I play because I enjoy watching football and competing in a friendly game
with friends. I laugh out loud at the texts exchanged between buddies on
Sundays, teasing each other over a poor performance. I have savored a free
beer purchased by another team manager based on a side bet I won. Over
the years, I’ve even won the prized trophy we exchange for winning our
league on a few occasions.
At the end of the day, I play fantasy football for the same reasons I loved
recess as a child. You pick your teams, play hard until the bell rings and the
winners have bragging rights until the next recess.
Deep down, we are all still kids looking for a good game on the playground.
On nOvember 6, 2018 Please vOte
rOn GrOOms fOr state senate.
During his tenure as our State Senator, Ron has worked with
colleagues to pass truly balanced budgets, encouraging economic
growth, create jobs, increase education funding, promote better
access to health services, combat the opioid crisis, and improve
our infrastructure.
Ron Grooms is the type of leader we need to
keep fighting for us at the Statehouse. Ron
has been a strong voice for Southeast
Indiana, putting people before politics
to help ensure a better life for us and
our children.
Ray Lucas lives, works and plays in Southern Indiana and is a columnist
for Extol. He had a distinguished recess kickball career at St. Paul School
in the late 1970s. He is also the reigning champion in his fantasy football
league, ManCo, and has the trophy to prove it.
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