does the washington post not understand people?
Wow, now I understand why these out of touch institutions are going under. From the Washington Post review of this new show, The League:
“In the hubbub to get to the next wee-wee gag, the script forgets to mention a reason why any of these people have the slightest interest in football, much less the obsession required to participate in the numbers-crunching minutiae of a fantasy league. (This is, by the by, a competition in which you pick players in pro football, and their statistics in each game constitute your score, and the person with the highest score at the end of the season is the winner.)
Nobody mentions, say, even such hoary cliches as their dad taking them to a snowy game at Lambeau Field when they were a kid, or of having grown up Down South where the sport is a tribal passion, or having played the game as a kid. Nobody appears to be so much as a season-ticket holder.”
I’m not disagreeing that the show may not be good. But really? You have issue that the show hasn’t provided compelling reason to play fantasy football? This isn’t 1985. My Lithuanian neighbor plays fantasy football, and I’m not sure he even knows that it’s not about soccer.
