It’s Christmas eve and we’re looking for God. We’re watching two TVs, football on one and on the other, for some reason, we’re watching a Band of Brothers marathon. Band of Brothers of course being the saga of Easy Company spitting blood and bullets across Europe from D-Day to the end of World War II … and so we sit, hunkered down in our 21st-century bunkers, feeling bad that we can’t drink beers on the sidewalk in a suburb of a country that has fought and died over stuff so much more epic than the flu.
Read moreI Want My Old “Fantasies” Back
It used to be that fantasies we’re about dreams that could never come true, now the word “fantasy” is just short for “fantasy football,” the nightmare that won’t go away. It would be melodramatic to say that fantasy football is ruining my life, but it’s for sure ruining my football life.