Guns: The Quickest Way To Ruin Your Fantasy Football Draft This Year

Fantasy football drafts are heady stuff. These three- or four-hour blocks of cutthroat strategy and boozy gamesmanship can literally determine months of emotional wellbeing. Botch your draft and prepare for weekly humiliation. Concentration is key through the pivotal early-round selections. Lose your focus and before you know it, you’ve wasted a high pick on Jamal Lewis.↵↵Ryan Froh understands this, perhaps too well. That’s why when a neighbor’s dog cut through his thought process when trying to make the 26th pick at a fantasy draft party, he had to put a swift end to the disruption. That meant going outside to confront the dog’s owner, who then challenged him to climb the fence and fight him. Which he did, which led to a gun being fired. A shot, fired by the neighbor, that ended up hitting the neighbor’s wife, who was trying to put an end to the drunken conflict.↵

↵↵Yes, the scourge of fantasy football related violence continues to percolate, growing more grisly by the year. Last season produced a man pulling a knife on his roommate over a dispute about points. Now we actually have someone being wounded by a deadly weapon from an incident that sprang from fantasy. Owners must learn that cooler heads must prevail in the deadly game of fantasy sports. Maybe we need a hip-hop-like summit to stop the violence before it gets too far out of control. I’ll bring my laptop.↵

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