On a Saturday in August 2010, Craig Heller was about to skip out early on his impromptu engagement party, stranding his fiancée with his extended family in the process. But he had a good reason: his fantasy football league draft. This wasn't just any draft, though. This was for the National Fantasy Football Championship — there was $100,000 on the line and he wasn't about to miss it, not even for his soon-to-be wife.
Heller played for a lot of cash, but his intensity is something plenty of people might recognize. Fantasy football was part of a niche culture until the game came to the Internet, and, like the web itself, permeated homes, offices and everywhere in between. Read more...
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