Is FF ruining the game from a fan's perspective?

[Noodle]

Nutz hit it on the head about baseball, it's every friggin day. And now, with 24/7 Internet coverage, it's every friggin' minute of every friggin' day. I have every reason to believe I'd be dead by now if I were still in the game.

I've tried to kid myself that I could handle FF because it's a weekly thing, and there are far fewer guys and stats to follow. But at some point, you gotta know who you are. And I am Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses.

So if you're a laid back guy who just wants to have some yucks with the buds on draft day and then could care less how your team does, then roto or fantasy anything is a great way to know the sport. But if you're the kind of obsessive personality who likes to do things like, oh, I don't know, frequent Internet forums, then maybe you should just step away.

[chain_gang]

It could ruin it I guess, I've never had much of problem with it ruining my fun. Actually if anything it made me watch even more games. I've always been NFL fan not just a Packer fan. I mean the Pack comes first always has always will. But during a bye week, I'm still watching all the games I can, not so I can track my FF stats, those are easily available monday morning, but so I can enjoy some football and not really care who wins or loses. Actually being a die hard for any NFL team can be more stressful than any FF league. It's always nice to watch those couple games a week, where you don't care who wins or loses.

For somes fans FF may ruin it for them, for me it's a nice casual game to play, that doesn't require much effort.

[Harlan Huckleby]

FF ruined my life. I'm not ready to talk about it.

[Spaulding]

LEWCWA hit it on the head. It's all about he draft. My only rule is if the Pack is on, they stay on. No channel surfing allowed in my household (at least on the big screen - hehe).

You gotta admit it's funny when all the TV analysts start joining in on the projections for players each week. It's the epidimy of "get a life" and I'm as guilty as anyone there.

For those you who've been playing a while, think back to the days before the Internet and when the Monday morning paper was the holy grail for collecting stats and determing how your players did and the the Thursday paper was for the injury list.

Ah the simpler life...

[wist43]

Do what I do... play golf b/4 the Packer game, obsess over every ticker update during the game, then go play golf after the Packer game, then go home and check the scores, then go play golf some more...

FF obsessive and addictive??? Nah... golf is addictive. Actually I'm thinking of starting a 12 step program for golfers. Maybe we could include FF addicts in there???

[BigDmoney]

LEWCWA hit it on the head. It's all about he draft. My only rule is if the Pack is on, they stay on. No channel surfing allowed in my household (at least on the big screen - hehe).

You gotta admit it's funny when all the TV analysts start joining in on the projections for players each week. It's the epidimy of "get a life" and I'm as guilty as anyone there.

For those you who've been playing a while, think back to the days before the Internet and when the Monday morning paper was the holy grail for collecting stats and determing how your players did and the the Thursday paper was for the injury list.

Ah the simpler life...

No kidding. being a comissioner now is nothing like it was 10 years ago. Hours of of work and math. This Internet invention rocks.

[Willard]

FF sucks. Its like coffee- once you're addicted, you have to have it. You obsess about it constantly, and if you don't have it, you are an absolute a-hole to be around until you get your fix.

The first step towards recovery is to admit that you are powerless over fantasy football......