Attempting to Understand What Drove Fantasy Football Player to Threaten to Kill Roommate

Some people take fantasy football too seriously. But then there are other people, like “Chet” Ward, who really take it too seriously. As in, “I’ll freakin’ slit your throat for beating me by 1.7 points last week” seriously:↵↵⇥A 35-year-old man was arrested Monday morning after he allegedly became upset over points in his Fantasy Football league and threatened to kill his roommate.↵⇥↵⇥According to a report from the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, Chester Marcial “Chet” Ward, of the 4500 block of Duncan Road in Punta Gorda, allegedly sliced pages in the book his roommate was reading before holding a knife to his roommate’s neck and threatening to kill him.↵⇥

↵⇥↵⇥When deputies arrived, Ward admitted to being upset over points from his fantasy football league and that he asked his roommate to move out of the residence. Because the roommate was ignoring him, Ward told the deputies that he pulled out his knife and cut the book as a joke.↵⇥

↵↵Before Chet was finally handcuffed and taken in, he attempted to elude officers by running across the street, at which time he felt the wrath of the taser (bro). In hindsight, perhaps Chet slightly overacted by, you know, slicing up a perfectly good book and threatening to kill his roommate. Or maybe he really was joking. In which case, very funny Chet. ↵↵Either way, we’ve come up with five possible occurrences from Week 4’s fantasy action that could’ve led Chet to such madness. These should help us sympathize with him: ↵

↵↵1. Rashard Mendenhall, who Chet drafted to handcuff Willie Parker and thus started, goes down with a broken shoulder after racking up 3.6 points.↵

↵↵2. He drafted both Carson Palmer and Chad Johnson, a lethal tandem that was gonna be stacking up the points ALL DAY LONG BABY! Ocho Cinco’s first TD of the season comes the one week that both weren’t in Chet’s starting line-up. This irony is infuriating! ↵

↵↵3. Chet heeded Matthew Berry’s advice by benched Larry Johnson for the first time all season, just 18 minutes before kick-off. Seriously, Berry said -- on national TV -- to bench LJ, who rushed for 198 yards and two touchdowns. ↵

↵↵4. The Cowboys handed the ball to Chet’s other running back, Marion Barber, eight times ... total. ↵

↵↵5. His roommate started Laveranues Coles only because Plaxico Burress was on a bye.↵

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