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Article: Fantasy football numbers on the rise
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- September 7, 2004
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ARE YOU DRAINED from your just-completed NFL fantasy football
draft, or is the pressure an impending draft mounting on you?
Well, I can't offer up that sleeper selection that will catapult
you into your fantasy league playoffs (I've enough problems dealing
with my own sorry team), but I can tell you that you are not alone.
It's estimated that 15 million people will play fantasy football
in the United States this year and there's some very interesting
research available on this quickly expanding group.
Curiously, only 49 percent of those who play fantasy football
describe themselves as "die-hard" sports fans. Which means that
roughly half of the average team owners don't have the patience to ...