Fantasy Football needs a new name (1 Viewer)

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

Frankly it is embarrassing to say. I have some friends who don't care about sports let alone fantasy sports, and I can just tell every time I say "fantasy football" they cringe and lose respect for me.

Same with coworkers/bosses. Same with almost every female alive.

It's just a terribly nerdy and unflattering name to attach yourself to.

"Hey, ya wanna go grab a beer tonight?" .........."Nah man, I have a fantasy football draft"..................

It's awful. Needs a new name. It's a worse name than Dungeons and Dragons. A new name would make it far less embarrassing IMO. Let's face it, fantasy sports are embarrassing enough with the embarrassing name.

bostonfred · Aug 30, 2015

Fancy football

ShaqAttaq · Aug 30, 2015

magic football

BoltBacker · Aug 30, 2015

"Nah man, I am busy clam repelling"

skol asylum · Aug 30, 2015

Armchair Analytics...tell them you have an AA meeting.

Ashem · Aug 30, 2015

El Futbol Fantasía

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

I could just lie and say work, or painting something, or clean the garage............

Thing is, I want to be able to say what I am doing without feeling like a total :nerd:

about it

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

There just has to be a better way to say it. I mean, if I need to go home and mow the lawn, I say I am going to go mow the lawn. I don't say I need to go home and manicure the lawn. Both are the same thing, but one is just.................... :no:

jon_mx · Aug 30, 2015

Yeah, I think a game of playing make believe about owning other guys in order to stroke ones ego is in need of a tough-sounding name.

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

jon_mx said:
Yeah, I think a game of playing make believe about owning other guys in order to stroke ones ego is in need of a tough-sounding name.

Just looking for something better. Something less :lmao:

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

And besides, this is why I play (starting at 1:30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7NxEj4A1Cg

xulf · Aug 30, 2015

You realize its not the name that makes it nerdy...

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

xulf said:
You realize its not the name that makes it nerdy...

Yes, I already said that.

But it makes is MORE nerdy to the point where it's embarrassing to say what you are doing. Just needs a better name man.

Otis · Aug 30, 2015

Lolnerds

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

Nerd Ball would be a better name.

eoMMan · Aug 30, 2015

Mutual JO Sessions?

bostonfred · Aug 30, 2015

eoMMan said:
Mutual JO Sessions?

But then what would we call it when we had actual mutual JO sessions?

flapgreen · Aug 30, 2015

I hate it when the chicks laugh at me. Damn it, I deserve more respect!

fantasycurse42 · Aug 30, 2015

Still waiting on Coach Otis to post his "All-Value Team"...

:kicksrock:

Zow · Aug 30, 2015

It's even more embarrassing to say "well, there's this guy I know from this fantasy football message board..."

flapgreen · Aug 30, 2015

Zow said:
It's even more embarrassing to say "well, there's this guy I know from this fantasy football message board..."

Much more but something I've done many times

Rove! · Aug 30, 2015

GM pretendsies

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

bostonfred said:
eoMMan said:

Mutual JO Sessions?

Click to expand...

But then what would we call it when we had actual mutual JO sessions?

"fantasy JO Sessions"??

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

Rove! said:
GM pretendsies

This is winning so far IMO

NREC34 · Aug 30, 2015

Man this hits home for me today. Yesterday we had our company golf scramble. I got paired and rode in the cart with the head of R&D. If I could take back anything I said in four hours to this guy it was a conversations between holes we had talking about football starting. Then me asking him if he played fantasy football to which he replied "no". Lol

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

Zow said:
It's even more embarrassing to say "well, there's this guy I know from this fantasy football message board..."

Love it. People ask where I head about something and I say from a fantasy football message board. They immediately stop listening.

ghostguy123 · Aug 30, 2015

NREC34 said:
Man this hits home for me today. Yesterday we had our company golf scramble. I got paired and rode in the cart with the head of R&D. If I could take back anything I said in four hours to this guy it was a conversations between holes we had talking about football starting. Then me asking him if he played fantasy football to which he replied "no". Lol

That's the kind of question that could get you promoted or fired.

sports_fan · Aug 30, 2015

Just don't talk about it if you play. Never bring it up. There's nothing you can call it that doesn't make it sound juvenile and embarrassing.

flapgreen · Aug 30, 2015

sports_fan said:
Just don't talk about it if you play. Never bring it up. There's nothing you can call it that doesn't make it sound juvenile and embarrassing.

Doesn't embarrass this fella

flapgreen · Aug 30, 2015

ghostguy123 said:
NREC34 said:

Man this hits home for me today. Yesterday we had our company golf scramble. I got paired and rode in the cart with the head of R&D. If I could take back anything I said in four hours to this guy it was a conversations between holes we had talking about football starting. Then me asking him if he played fantasy football to which he replied "no". Lol

Click to expand...

That's the kind of question that could get you promoted or fired.

Fired lol

Peyton Marino · Aug 30, 2015

ghostguy123 said:
Zow said:

It's even more embarrassing to say "well, there's this guy I know from this fantasy football message board..."

Click to expand...

Love it. People ask where I head about something and I say from a fantasy football message board. They immediately stop listening.

Lol. Don't ever say that. Make something up.

FUBAR · Aug 30, 2015

Zow said:
It's even more embarrassing to say "well, there's this guy I know from this fantasy football message board..."

It's even better to say "this diet thread on a fantasy football message board..."

Bodeine · Aug 30, 2015

A rose by any other name would still sound as nerdy.

McGarnicle · Aug 30, 2015

Sorry I can't make it, I've got a frisbee golf tournament. :thumbup:

Papa Georgio · Aug 30, 2015

ghostguy123 said:
Frankly it is embarrassing to say. I have some friends who don't care about sports let alone fantasy sports, and I can just tell every time I say "fantasy football" they cringe and lose respect for me.

Same with coworkers/bosses. Same with almost every female alive.

It's just a terribly nerdy and unflattering name to attach yourself to.

"Hey, ya wanna go grab a beer tonight?" .........."Nah man, I have a fantasy football draft"..................

It's awful. Needs a new name. It's a worse name than Dungeons and Dragons. A new name would make it far less embarrassing IMO. Let's face it, fantasy sports are embarrassing enough with the embarrassing name.

and you're worried about the opinion of these nerds? Tell them to butch it up a bit.

D-Day · Aug 30, 2015

jon_mx said:
Yeah, I think a game of playing make believe about owning other guys in order to stroke ones ego is in need of a tough-sounding name.

Call the draft "Slave Trade Rally"?

Baloney Sandwich · Aug 30, 2015

Dude, you are a male nurse. The fact that you play fantasy football falls well below that on the embarrassment scale.

flapgreen · Aug 30, 2015

Papa Georgio said:
ghostguy123 said:

Frankly it is embarrassing to say. I have some friends who don't care about sports let alone fantasy sports, and I can just tell every time I say "fantasy football" they cringe and lose respect for me.

Same with coworkers/bosses. Same with almost every female alive.

It's just a terribly nerdy and unflattering name to attach yourself to.

"Hey, ya wanna go grab a beer tonight?" .........."Nah man, I have a fantasy football draft"..................

It's awful. Needs a new name. It's a worse name than Dungeons and Dragons. A new name would make it far less embarrassing IMO. Let's face it, fantasy sports are embarrassing enough with the embarrassing name.

Click to expand...

and you're worried about the opinion of these nerds? Tell them to butch it up a bit.

No kidding lol

cstu · Aug 30, 2015

Whenever I hear "Football Manager" I'm reminded that's what FF should be called.

"I have my football manager draft this weekend" still sounds lame but a lot better than a FF draft.

Peyton Marino · Aug 30, 2015

my link

wikkidpissah · Aug 30, 2015

Bradymandering

Gary Coal Man · Aug 30, 2015

ghostguy123 said:
Frankly it is embarrassing to say. I have some friends who don't care about sports let alone fantasy sports, and I can just tell every time I say "fantasy football" they cringe and lose respect for me. Same with coworkers/bosses. Same with almost every female alive.

At age twenty I was worried what everyone thought about me.

At age forty I didn't give a #### what anyone thought about me.

At age sixty I realized that nobody was ever really thinking about me in the first place.

McGarnicle · Aug 30, 2015

Sorry I can't make it, I'm going to have sex with a bunch of cheerleaders.

Sorry I can't make it, me and some buddies are going down to the dump to shoot rats.

Sorry I can't make it, I just scored a nice brick of primo Mexican black tar heroin.

hagmania · Aug 30, 2015

What's wrong with D&D? :angry:

Riversco · Aug 30, 2015

Just call it gambling. Women love gambling.

skol asylum · Aug 30, 2015

fantasy athlete pimping

joffer · Aug 30, 2015

gay porn

flapgreen · Aug 30, 2015

McGarnicle said:
Sorry I can't make it, I'm going to have sex with a bunch of cheerleaders.

Sorry I can't make it, me and some buddies are going down to the dump to shoot rats.

Sorry I can't make it, I just scored a nice brick of primo Mexican black tar heroin.

That's more like it. Not embarrassing

McGarnicle · Aug 30, 2015

Sorry I can't make it, I'm getting penis reduction surgery.

RealReactions · Aug 30, 2015

Baloney Sandwich said:
Dude, you are a male nurse. The fact that you play fantasy football falls well below that on the embarrassment scale.

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