Fantasy Football has been around since the age of new technology. From locating stats on newspapers to phone notifi  cations, the sport has drawn popularity among kids and adults throughout the United States. The same applies among this school, where a topic of discussion can always be how their team performed during the week. Along with students, the game found on any app or website, teachers also continue to play, even after they started teaching. John DeOrio, English, has been playing with the same group of friends since he was a kid. “I’ve been playing long before fantasy platforms existed. We would use scoring by hand, and it was a group of kids in my neighborhood when I was little. We would watch all the games on Sunday and when the paper came out on Monday, we would score the results then.”

What motivates DeOrio is the entertainment that comes with playing, drawing attention to games that nobody would pay attention to without the art of the game. “It gives me a sense of increased interaction with a game I already love. This gives me the chance to be the ‘coach’ and build your own dream team; It brings me closer to the sport for good and bad,” DeOrio said. Fantasy Football can always be played for fun, but most of the time, money happens to be involved. “Playing for money only heightens the interest and when you’re doing well, it makes it even more enjoyable”, Nathan Kovalchik, junior said.

“I love fantasy football for the competitive aspect, as I always love to compete against anyone in anything, and this is a great place to do it.” In the day and age of football rivalries and heated debates between teams, NFL fans can fi  nd common ground on the topic of fantasy football and their waiver wire worries. In a technology and dominated teenage boy society, evading fantasy football is a tricky task. In the day and age of advertising and pushing products, daily and season- long fantasy is as popular as rap albums, and even the NFL itself.