Final Smackdown. Wow this is the saddest day of my life. But we'll push through this, I'll push through this pain and grind this out.
Aight, let's go. We'll talk about the thing that actually drives me close to insanity for 17th straight weeks every year, ESPN Fantasy Football. This is probably a bit of a stretch calling it social media but it probably still constitutes as it because it has a good amount of social features.
To start off, what is fantasy football? Fantasy football is a game played with a group of people drafting a team of NFL players and winning head to head matchups against other friends based on scores of the weekly NFL games. (Although this is not exclusive to football, there are versions for most major sports.)
ESPN Fantasy Football isn't just a game but has a good amount of social elements to it. On ESPN, you can send messages to your weekly opponent, send messages to your entire league on message boards, etc.
ESPN also adds another element with the professional sports writers they have on staff. Fantasy football analysts will write articles and they will be displayed directly onto the website or mobile app and fantasy football players can chat with each other, and possibly the analysts themselves, about whatever topic was talked about.
