European here. I have heard of the concept of fantasy football, but never quite gotten what is so appealing about it, how it works (you pick players from different teams?), and why grown (wo)men are willing to dedicate hours of their life to it. Please explain :).
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> why are so many US men obsessed with it?
It’s one of the few sources of community which are still available & socially acceptable.
Community used to be a normal & essential part of our lives. Leagues, teams, unions, & clubs were the norm, be it bowling, freemason, bridge, or just plain old knowing who your neighbors are while being mutually invested in each other’s welfare.
For whatever reason fantasy football is one of the last sources of community to die so it has to carry a lot of weight instead of being 1 option among 100’s. Weirdly enough fantasy football has a lot of haters not because it in any way harms people, but because the wrong type of people participate.
Our culture is getting super weird and isolated, it’s a big reason so many people are less healthy & happy than previous generations. It makes us less resilient as individuals, but also as a group and *that* an important reason regular people are getting the short end of every stick possible.
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