What's your fantas-sy??

Want to see a great show of insanity? Go to a bar on a Sunday, preferably a sports bar, but really, any bar with a television, broadcasting an NFL game. Sit down, get comfortable, order a beer, and listen, it's about to get good. Listen to the person next to you (it doesn't have to be a guy now-a-days). Listen as this person cheers for a team on a given play, but curses them on the next.

"YES! Touchdown Randy Moss!"

30 seconds later, "Gostkowski, you piece of sh*t you miss this f**king kick!!"

"Wait, did you just celebrate a Patriots' touchdown, but curse them for making the extra point? What's wrong with you? "

To make this even more odd, the guy is wearing a New York Giants' Eli Manning jersey.

"Who the hell are you rooting for?"

"Oh, excuse my language, I actually hate both of these teams, I'm a Giants fan, but Moss is on my fantasy team, and the guy I'm playing this week is starting Gostkowski at kicker."

Welcome to the insane world of fantasy sports, where loyalty to "your team" goes out the window, for the sake of beating your friends' fantasy teams. A world in which a Packers fan can cheer for Brett Favre as he throws yet another 50 yard completion against Green Bay, because he got 2 points out of it. For those of you who do not understand how serious this epidemic is, let me tell you, just from my personal experiences, how much of an addiction fantasy sports have become:

1) It is not uncommon for a "user" to have more than one fantasy team in the same sport. In fact, you can often find a user cheering for, and against a specific player, because he or she owns them in one league, but is facing them in another.

2) Users often congregate to a common ground with other users to engage in a "draft" for a fantasy league. Now this may be a group of college friends who ride their bikes to a friends house on campus, or it may be 12 middle-aged men who fly business class from Seattle, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Phoenix to Las Vegas to meet that same group of friends with whom they once rode bikes to meet on campus for their drafts in college.

3) There are trophies for the Fantasy Champion, and as retarded as it sounds, the friends/fellow fantasy league members of the champion are completely envious of this trophy.

As I wrap up this article, I will add one more thing: I am one of these insane fantasy sports fanatics, and I would like to extend a formal F**K YOU to my dear friend, Matt, for his bullsh*t fantasy victory on a Monday night game with Antonio Gates!!