Football is an American treasure that many people enjoy watching every weekend. Whether it’s the Superbowl or their favorite college football team, millions tune in to watch each game.
With football season underway, it also means that fantasy football is as well. Fantasy football is a game in which a person acts as a manager of an imaginary team in the National Football League(NFL) and picks certain players from each NFL team to be on their team. The goal of the game is to get the most points and create the best team. Many people participate in Fantasy Football with their friends and family.
Even though the point of the activity is meant to be competitive, millions of people participate in fantasy football to spend time with family and friends and develop a better relationship with them. It’s a common interest that brings them closer together.
Freshman Clark Christensen, plays fantasy football with his friends at Lambert. Christensen said that he started doing fantasy because he likes being able to do it with his friends because it helps him keep in touch with them.
“I definitely wouldn’t talk to some of these guys as much if we didn’t do fantasy,” Christensen stated.
When transitioning into high school, it is easy to lose friends when you don’t have classes with them. Christensen meets up with his friends that he participates in fantasy with at lunch everyday. They talk about how each of their players are performing. Fantasy Football is able to bring together the two things that he loves to do, hang out with friends and talk about football.
Christensen’s friend group isn’t the only one to take part in this, many groups at Lambert participate in Fantasy football. Fantasy football is talked about all the time at Lambert and is a great conversation starter. It is easy to add onto comments that people make about the teams that you have for fantasy; jumping into conversation about fantasy can provide an avenue for new friendships to form.
Fantasy is not only connecting people at Lambert, but people all across the country.
Freshman Chloe Durr, also participates in Fantasy Football with her cousins that live in Chicago. Durr was worried that when her cousins moved almost halfway across the country, their relationship would be lost, but Fantasy has helped keep their relationship alive.
“We have a family group chat with all of us and we talk about our teams,” Durr stated. “We trash talk to each other, but it’s all fun and games.”
By Durr being able to have a family group chat for fantasy football with her cousins, she is able to talk to them every day and stay in contact with them even though they don’t live near her anymore. This is the case with a lot of people that participate in fantasy. Groups are able to talk about the players they have each picked and the games that are happening that upcoming weekend and feel right at home with each other.
Fantasy football is not just about football, it’s about how it unites people and helps them form a stronger relationship. It’s about how it can help carve out time for friends and families to spend time with each other even if their schedules are packed. Fantasy football acts as the glue that keeps groups at Lambert connected.
