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I actually laughed out loud when the author said, "Heck, just getting rid of fantasy football probably saves American companies hundreds of millions of dollars annually." Yeah, fantasy football might disappear, but that doesn't mean that the phenomenon of fantasy sports would disappear too. It'd just be replaced with other fantasy sports.

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I'm not so sure about that. Have you ever played fantasy baseball? Or fantasy hockey? Most other fantasy sports are a pain in the butt. They're too involved.

Fantasy football has a nice rhythm: Peak at your team on Thursdays half-way through the season because of the handful of Thursday night games, adjust your team at lunch on Friday, check your scores on Monday.

At least for casual people. Maybe those hard-core will move to fantasy golf...

I've gotten some of my coworkers involved in fantasy NASCAR. Ridiculous, right? But you pick your drivers, you get points based directly on NASCAR scoring (so you know exactly what you'll get), and during the Chase, you pick just one driver for the whole "playoff" season. It's turned some people from a "they just make left turns..." to a "that was a wicked maneuver when they were racing three wide and he got loose through the corner!"

Fantasy baseball is pretty popular I thought. Never played it, but that's where fantasy sports started. It's also known as "Rotisserie Leagues".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_sport#Modern_founding_-...

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