Fantasy Football is Destroying NFL Fandom

This marks my thirteenth year partaking in the hair-pulling, tv-screaming, keyboard-smashing event that is fantasy sports.  Over the span of those thirteen years, I’ve developed a few rules for myself; some come out of superstition while others out of loyalties to certain players.  I always draft Adam Dunn, for one (even though he really burned me this year).  My biggest rule in fantasy sports is to never draft a player from either of my teams (those being the Chargers and Padres).  This started back in the early 2000′s when I had a Ryan Klesko incident and was so split on him succeeding for my fandom versus my fantasy interest that I decided the conflict of interest wasn’t worth it.  Now, as the years have gone on, it’s been easier and easier for me to not draft Padres players (because they suck) while the Chargers continue to tempt me with fantasy first round talent.  These are two separate worlds, real life fandom and fantasy ...