ESPN Fantasy Football Live

I know I like to pick on ESPN a lot. Truthfully, that is my job. I have to be critical and nit pick at this wonderful company or else no one would read a blog about how much they love ESPN bla, bla, bla.

Boring.

But for the purpose of this short blog, I will have to praise the network because when props are due props are due.

Every Sunday morning I have about thee choices to gear up for my football marathon for the day; Fox's pregame show with a star cast featuring Terry Bradshaw( former super bowl quarterback), Howie Long, Michael Strahan( former Superbowl tackle), Jimmy Johnson (former coach). I also have CBS's pre game show which also features a prominant cast of ex-football legends.

But for me and I believe soon enough for many others, ESPN's pre-game show featured on ESPN 2, discusses fantasy football, unlike fox and cbs which focus on the days matchups and predictions. While the two network shows audiences highly outweigh ESPN in ratings, ESPN has come up with the perfect format to even compete with the Fox and CBS emmy award winning shows.

ESPN not only features their fantasy football show on TV, but also online, allowing fantasy football nerds to interact, look up the days sleeper players, overall rankings and injury updates an hour before they have to officially set up their lineup for the day.

While non of the hosts are past football gods, many of them are a bit more humble, down to earth football analysts as opposed to say Fox's hosts who brag about their previous accomplishments.

While ESPN Football Live may not be the present, it is certainly a product of the future, as fantasy football gets bigger and bigger each year. Tons of fans, like me, watch football to follow are players not are teams.

With the cool design of the show, fast action analysis and real live interaction, Fantasy Football Live can only be summed up in one word;

Awesome.