Survivor Football
Sep 16th, 2008 by alyoung
With football season now in full swing, I don’t need another reason to watch a lot of football, but I have one….fantasy football. I would watch a lot of football anyways but fantasy football makes you obsessive about football. I have only participated in fantasy football through my wife who was in a work league for many years. Its a lot of fun but very time consuming. Now instead of only watching games of your favorite team you now have a rooting interest in almost all the games. So you are watching games or tracking your players on the Internet all day. In addition you have to spend time preparing for the fantasy draft, setting your lineups, and making trades to improve your team. Not to mention online trash talking.
I was invited to join a league this year, but I declined because of the time demands of being in a fantasy football league. Instead I joined a Survivor football pool. Survivor pool also called a Knock out pool is a very simple football pool. All you have to do is pick the winner of one game per week. Straight up with point spreads. If you win you survive and move on. If your team loses you are eliminated. You can only pick a team once. After you pick a team you cannot pick them again. Sounds easy but it is harder than it seems. I am in a pool f 400 entries and about a third was eliminated in the first week. It will get harder as the season goes on if I survive since there will fewer good teams to pick from. It is a good alternative to fantasy football.
