Fantasy Football

Fantasy football is attracting more and more fans each day. If you don’t know what it is, then you are not an American. Its really so prevalent that if you don’t have a betting pool somewhere, you are out of the loop. Fantasy football is Public a relations masterpiece. It gets people involved with their teams and the NFL as a whole. First off, you find a group of people who you want to compete against for a small wager or no wager. It livens things up if you bet a within your pool. Once you have gotten your pool together then you have a round robin “draft” in which you choose offensive players and one defense. Throughout the year you have to keep updating your teams, therefore keeping you very involved in the game and the stats. If a player you have drafted scores a certain amount of times or rushes for a certain amount, then you are awarded fantasy points. On the flip side, if your player gets injured or is unproductive, then you can draft other players or bench them. All this involvement has to be done within your pool and all selections have to be done prior to kick off on Sunday. It seems a bit complicated, but its pretty intuitive and keeps you really involved in any kind of sports news. You consume more sports news because any kind of a scandal or injury will affect your and if you find out in time, you can change your starting lineup. To conclude, this is one of the best ways to get people involved in their sports and it also keeps them consuming as much media on the subject as possible, leading to millions of advertising dollars flowing into the NFL and their teams. Who ever thought this scheme up is the modern day Edward Bernays.

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