Odds: Fantasy Football exploded in Fiction

Fifteen years ago, my friends and I wanted to participate in fantasy sports. We had heard of Rotisserie baseball, the game where you select major leaguers and use their statistics for your fantasy team. Most of us preferred football to baseball, we have a little research and decided to make a fantasy football. Now we are entering our 16th season, with 20 of the most rabid football nuts anywhere in the world, pride and competition for a small reward each year.

We are not alone, of course. More than 15 million Americans play fantasy football, a game that uses the statistics of professional football players for personal use, fantasy teams. During the last decade, this game has erupted as a volcano. There are hundreds of sites devoted to it. Magazines litter the newsstands in June and July, all committed to providing the best possible information on the players of the National Football League, and the provision of "expert" prediction about what the players on your team the most fancy on the basis of their performance on the network every Sunday. There are also radio programs and television programs devoted to the discussion of fantasy football and the NFL players that dot each team.

If you know someone who loves NFL football, it is likely that he or she is part of a Fantasy Football League. My involvement began with a new experience. As a writer, I'm still looking for a new idea, something unique, and football is fantastic for me. A work of fiction. For many years, but I was busy with how to write books and articles, I dreamed, as most authors do, from writing the Great American Novel. If this does not come, I wanted something different, something that I think would be a great public interest.