NFL players play fantasy football, which is fine with the NFL as long as it’s for fun and not for profit. But it can create some awkward situations.
According to Saints tight end Ben Watson, one such awkward situation came up when he talked to an opposing player, on the field, who said Watson is on his fantasy team.
“As a non-fantasy guy, I was kind of confused,” Watson said on ESPN’s fantasy football podcast, via the Washington Post. “But one of the players from the opposing team told me ‘Thank you,’ during the game, for helping his fantasy team. So fantasy has permeated into the entire NFL. Guys are playing fantasy football; some guys I think even play fantasy baseball. I don’t get involved with it. I have five kids, I just don’t have time. Not that anything’s wrong with the fantasy, but I just don’t have time for it, with my lifestyle.”
Watson isn’t the first player to hear that he was helping an opponent, and players have even described situations in which they were playing against themselves in fantasy. It’s a strange world, when you’re both a fantasy football player and an actual football player.
