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Fantasy leagues bring out the football fan in all

Students spend Sundays tracking stats seeking fantasy glory
Spending hours flipping from game to game every Sunday, fantasy football fanatics Tyler Scott, Tanner Scott, Sam Meaders and Greg Watson compete in a league with the winner getting a trophy and the last place finisher having to buy dinner for everybody else.
Matt Schasel
Spending hours flipping from game to game every Sunday, fantasy football fanatics Tyler Scott, Tanner Scott, Sam Meaders and Greg Watson compete in a league with the winner getting a trophy and the last place finisher having to buy dinner for everybody else.

He calls himself a Broncos fan during the week but come Sunday, Tanner Scott becomes an avid supporter of the Game Ovaries. Scott woke up Sunday morning with the taste of victory in his mouth, or maybe it was just the pizza he ate last night. Either way, he was determined to lead his team to victory that day with his star quarterback, Peyton Manning, set to play at 3:25 p.m.

“I usually wake up and put on my favorite pair of boxers,” Scott said. “I brush my teeth, comb my hair, crack open a Dr. Pepper and watch the games.”

I just go from TV screen to TV screen watching the games.

— Mac Metzler

He didn’t have time to shower, or even time to throw on decent clothes. All he could do was prepare himself to be the ultimate fan not just for the Broncos- but for Peyton Manning. It is his duty, considering the stakes of the league. One hundred fifty dollars is in the pot, but it’s more about pride. He hoisted the trophy at the end of the season last year, and he can’t afford to let it fall into the hands of another league member. Unfortunately, his team is struggling to defend its honor.

“My chances of winning [this year] are absolutely terrible,” Scott said.

Scott wasn’t the only one working hard this past weekend. On the other side of town, Mac Metzler was coming up with a game plan, not for his team, but for his television schedule for the day. Starting at 3:25 p.m., he had five games to be watching at once and that presented a major problem.

“I go to a public restaurant and I sit down around every game,” Metzler said. “I just go from TV screen to TV screen watching the games.”

Some managers turn to good luck charms to cope with the stresses that present themselves throughout game day.

“My good luck charm is picking on Sam Meaders on everything in life,” sophomore Tyler Scott said. “He sucks at everything.”

There is something to be said for all the hard work these fantasy football managers put forth every single week. Their dedication to their players is unending and slightly creepy.

“I like to go through my lineup and find their Twitters and look through their favorites,” Scott said. “That way I know that they don’t have any problems pre-game.”

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Matt Smith, Business Manager
To say it in the nicest of ways, Matt Smith is a very interesting member of our newspaper staff. We don’t necessarily want him here but he would not stop nagging all of us this year to allow him to take part. He is an annoying, short, ginger with the lamest jokes. His nickname (given to himself) is Witty Smitty and if we don’t call him that, he gets upset and says he is going to put you on his “hit list”. After you get on that prestigious list, you become his object of obsession, and he usually stalks you for a week, camping out in your backyard, constantly looking through his binoculars through your window. Creepy, right? Don’t worry though because he is all talk. Sometimes, when he isn’t telling dumb jokes, he tells stories that are so outrageous and ridiculous that you can’t even imagine why he would ever think that we believe them. He claims to have fought Floyd Mayweather in an underground boxing tournament, where he broke his undefeated streak three years ago. He also tells us that he is a longtime pen pal with Justin Bieber, who allegedly copied Witty’s style back in ‘06. Matt insisted on us including that he won the Class Clown Award back in 1st grade and that he intends on breaking the Guinness World Record for the most days spent continually humming Lady Gaga songs from daybreak to sun down. (Is that even a thing?) We are all praying that he will get a hint this year that we just really can’t stand him, and then maybe he will leave. Until then, pray for us.

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