A College Students Fantasy Football Experience: Is It Draft Day Yet?

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Published: August 24, 2009

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... College Pick-Em, NASCAR, golf, WNBA, curling, you name it, I’ve got a league. I’ll be a junior at the University of Illinois, (alma mater of my 2009 Dark Horse RB candidate Pierre Thomas), and during the summer I work two jobs and reside in a suburb just outside of Chicago.

For the past 10 years, 11 of my friends and I have taken part in a highly competitive fantasy football league.

Back in high school, free of real employment, serious girlfriends, and all with the same going-back-to-school date, it was easy to pick any day of the week during the NFL preseason, in which we would sit on bean-bag chairs in a basement, and walk up one by one to the official cardboard cut-out draft board taped to the wall, and each scribble in the boxes the name of a player sure to have a breakout season.

From there we could subsequently brag we knew would happen on the league messaging b...

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