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I imagine the people that felt insulted by Kimmel are the same dorks who refer to themselves as "Sharks" or "general managers" and fantasize that they have actual superior football knowledge as compared to the average armchair fan.Face it guys - fantasy football is supremely dorky and we are all pretty much losers for obsessing over it as we do. In short, we all really need to get real lives.
at the guys who are actually insulted by this.
I propose that most of us are dorks, but not losers and have real lives... but maybe it is just me.I imagine the people that felt insulted by Kimmel are the same dorks who refer to themselves as "Sharks" or "general managers" and fantasize that they have actual superior football knowledge as compared to the average armchair fan.Face it guys - fantasy football is supremely dorky and we are all pretty much losers for obsessing over it as we do. In short, we all really need to get real lives.
Speak for yourself! I'm sitting here in my underwear with a bag of cheetos typing on a message board!I propose that most of us are dorks, but not losers and have real lives... but maybe it is just me.I imagine the people that felt insulted by Kimmel are the same dorks who refer to themselves as "Sharks" or "general managers" and fantasize that they have actual superior football knowledge as compared to the average armchair fan.Face it guys - fantasy football is supremely dorky and we are all pretty much losers for obsessing over it as we do. In short, we all really need to get real lives.
Now that I look back at it it may have been funny material. They just needed to find a talented comedian to deliver the lines. I didn't find it funny but it did not upset me. I found it strange that they would insult their fans. That would be like Luby's making fun of old people.he is a comedian after all !! comedians often make fun of people including race, sexual orientatoin, handicap, gender , fantasy footballers etc etc,
BIG DEAL
What are they going to do, stop watching games? Stop playing FF?Seriously, what's the down side of this for the NFL?I don't care what Kimmel's apologists are going to say. You DON'T bite the hand that feeds you. Fantasy football is good for the NFL and they know it. The league should be pissed.
And if they knew about it, then they're a bunch of idiots.
They also watch the game differently than those who play FF. I truly believe that a lot of the "real" enjoyment of watching games is lost because of FF. Rather than watching for the sheer enjoyment and appreciation of the game, FF players just care about certain individuals in the game, rather than the teams involved (big picture).Don't know about that, I would bet there are WAY more people who watch that aren't in fantasy football. At least I know tons more people who won't play fantasy sports but watch football religiously.It is interesting though that the NFL's half time entertainment would be a joke on a very large group of its fan base.
I imagine the people that felt insulted by Kimmel are the same dorks who refer to themselves as "Sharks" or "general managers" and fantasize that they have actual superior football knowledge as compared to the average armchair fan.Face it guys - fantasy football is supremely dorky and we are all pretty much losers for obsessing over it as we do. In short, we all really need to get real lives.
I'm glad I'm not the only who thinks referring to yourself as "Shark" is incredibly dorky.
on't listen to naysayers like Jimmy Kimmel, who used his new halftime pulpit on ABC to belittle fantasy owners and inadvertently started a Biggie/Tupac-level feud with me that can only end with both of us being riddled with bullets(And by the way, it's interesting that Kimmel would rank on anyone else's hobbies when the undisputed highlight of his summer was buying a pizza oven.)
A REAL shark (like me, that is) never has to tell anyone they are a shark.I imagine the people that felt insulted by Kimmel are the same dorks who refer to themselves as "Sharks" or "general managers" and fantasize that they have actual superior football knowledge as compared to the average armchair fan.Face it guys - fantasy football is supremely dorky and we are all pretty much losers for obsessing over it as we do. In short, we all really need to get real lives.
Funny....Stickboy doesn't have a sense of humor! Perhaps removing the stick would help?I didn't find it funny, I found it insulting. For those who want to let ABC know your opinions, the link is http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tvlisting...ge=askabcsports.I agree. It was funny. Even my wife laughed and she is not into FF, just understands it all too well because of me.
thanks for the link...I sent them a note of confidence and told them to ignore the pansies that can't take a joke. What is the world coming to when Fantasy Football Fanatics are now a special interest group that can't be insulted? get a life people.
Funny....Stickboy doesn't have a sense of humor! Perhaps removing the stick would help?I didn't find it funny, I found it insulting. For those who want to let ABC know your opinions, the link is http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tvlisting...ge=askabcsports.I agree. It was funny. Even my wife laughed and she is not into FF, just understands it all too well because of me
Taken from sportsguy article:http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...=simmons/050909I imagine the people that felt insulted by Kimmel are the same dorks who refer to themselves as "Sharks" or "general managers" and fantasize that they have actual superior football knowledge as compared to the average armchair fan.Face it guys - fantasy football is supremely dorky and we are all pretty much losers for obsessing over it as we do. In short, we all really need to get real lives.
