The Only Fantasy Football I Care About
I love football, but I can’t get into fantasy football. There’s too much work involved for too little reward — whoever picks that one random player that has the crazy-good season wins, no matter how much scheming and trading and strategizing you do.
Meanwhile, Blood Bowl has elves, trolls, dwarves, and goblins, and some of them have chainsaws. This is fantasy football I can get behind — and the fact that it can be played as a real-time sports game or an old-school turn-based strategy game is phenomenal. Besides, teaching an troll linebacker to rip an elf wide receiver into five separate pieces sounds a lot more fun than trying to decide if Jay Cutler is going to get decent again or piss it down his pants the entire season.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.