Talking Trash, Trading Studs, and Drafting Sleepers -- an Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Obsession U.S. businesses lose $200 million in productivity each football season because employees are managing their fantasy squads instead of working. In Why Fantasy Football Matters (And Our Lives Do Not), two grizzled veterans revel in the addiction that is fantasy football. From pre-draft hijinx to post-draft trash talk, from tumultuous trades to the perils of free agency, it celebrates the eccentric personalities, absurd rituals, and hilarious superstitions of one of the most fanatical fantasy leagues on earth. With humor, insight, and a dash of advice, Why Fantasy Football Matters celebrates the thirty-two million Americans who prefer managing their fantasy squads to relaxing with loved ones. And it gives girlfriends, coworkers, and sports purists all the proof they need to accept that this is an obsession that really matters.
Unemployed and daggy Joseph lies his way onto a reality television show by reinventing himself as the hip, sexy and popular Jeb. With the help of his friend Allison they invent the whole enchilada to match his new alter ego: a cool job as a money market whizz, a beautiful ex-girlfriend who leaks his cute baby pictures to the network, even hiring actors to play his adoring picture-perfect, golf-loving parents. With his new identity and hepcat personality in place, he fumbles his way through the bizarre world of reality TV interviews and terrifying pre-screenings to land a coveted role on the next big thing, a dating reality show in which a bunch of guys compete for the love of 'The Virgin', a beautiful woman no red-blooded man could resist. Like the reality TV craze it skewers, The Virgin is funny, fascinating and full of fabulous fly-on-the-wall confrontations between irresistible and irresistibly hideous characters and a shocking surprise ending. Love it or hate it, there's no getting away from reality television and what its popularity says about life on earth today. But THE VIRGIN is a true original, making us laugh and think twice as we are forced up close to question the real deal on character, identity, the need for connection and reality itself. And thanks to Jeb's misadventures behind the scenes, THE VIRGIN is more compulsive than any reality TV show.
Talking Trash, Trading Studs, and Drafting Sleepers -- an Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Obsession U.S. businesses lose $200 million in productivity each football season because employees are managing their fantasy squads instead of working. In Why Fantasy Football Matters (And Our Lives Do Not), two grizzled veterans revel in the addiction that is fantasy football. From pre-draft hijinx to post-draft trash talk, from tumultuous trades to the perils of free agency, it celebrates the eccentric personalities, absurd rituals, and hilarious superstitions of one of the most fanatical fantasy leagues on earth. With humor, insight, and a dash of advice, Why Fantasy Football Matters celebrates the thirty-two million Americans who prefer managing their fantasy squads to relaxing with loved ones. And it gives girlfriends, coworkers, and sports purists all the proof they need to accept that this is an obsession that really matters.
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