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Fantasy Football: Toward a Preliminary Intellectual History

59.3 million people in the United States and Canada played fantasy football last year, which is the equivalent of the entire populations of California and New York added together. I was one of those people, and I am once again in a league this year[1]—a fact I feel very conflicted about. On the one hand, it is one of the best ways I have of connecting with high school friends, people I’m not able to see often but who remember to mock me pitilessly when I lose. On the other hand, I have serious moral reservations about supporting an industry Read more