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The story that is eating up the sports blogosphere is about the website “Women Against Fantasy Sports“. Since most football bloggers are male, there is a lot of whining on their part about how this site is just silly because they need their hobbies too, honey!

Here is an example of one of the stories from WAFS:

It’s Saturday afternoon and I am just arriving home from work. Usually the house is in a little disarray but nothing quite prepared me for this.
I opened up the front door and get a warm jumpy welcome from the dogs and notice a trail of fluff leading into the family room. I follow the trail and walk in to…well words just can’t describe…mostly because I am still speechless… but maybe a “minefield”? There is crap EVERYWHERE! The girls have decided that they wanted to play with every toy they have…at the same time…and of course the only way to do that is to empty the shelves, drawers and cabinets… build a fort to play them in…grab snacks from the kitchen ….and proceed to leave drops of milk and whatever else all around the room. AWESOME.
“Where’s Daddy?”
“He’s in the office”
I walk in and there it is. I knew it was coming – I just didn’t realize it was that soon. There he is, still in his pajama bottoms…two computers on, going from one screen to the next, rubbing his hair like he is about to come up with some theory that will save the world. “Honey! Do you think I should play a hurt Adrian Peterson or Kevin Jones with a good matchup… ” I gave him the look…the “REALLY? Are you kidding me?” look, rolled my eyes and walked away.
I can’t wait to see the kitchen…

Yes. How dare a woman expect her husband to make sure the house doesn’t get destroyed while she is at work! That is just completely unreasonable!

There are numerous examples talking about how the women are neglected for the fantasy sports and the sports blogosphere is making it seem like the ladies are going “PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEE” which obviously isn’t the case with the above story.

Now, my boyfriend does fantasy football and some how it does not interfere with our love life. Most women can be left alone for two hours while their man drafts. We’re not all the crazy psycho ladies that the sports bloggers are making us out to be. Most of us just roll our eyes when you complain about how Brian Westbrook ruined your game by not going for the touchdown.

Here is the facts, guys: after the draft there is no need to spend hours analyzing this and that. Sure, trade away some players that are hurt or useless. That takes, what? Five minutes? And that is on dial up. The thing about it is this… your players are set and the game is on. There is nothing you can do now. You don’t need to track your game on your cell phone while your out showing your lady a good time. In a way, it is pretty disrespectful. Actually. It is completely disrespectful.

I am not saying you can’t go check your standings if you two are just chilling out on the couch channel surfing. I am saying that if you’re out of the house and your pulling up the internet on your cell phone or abandoning your honeymoon to check your stats it may be you that has the problem, not your lady.

And yeah, that honeymoon story is on there too:

We had just barely entered the honeymoon suite when my new husband URGENTLY had to go find an internet connection.

At first he tried to disguise it (as many FS Addicts do)… “I have to check what time our flight leaves… and I need to make sure I got a confirmation for our hotel in Seattle… It’s fine honey, I’ll be a half an hour tops… I just want to make sure everything is perfect for the second leg of our honeymoon…”

I didn’t really understand why he couldn’t check on these things over the phone, but I let him go anyway…silly me… I was a FS newlywed… I had no idea what I was dealing with…

Two and a half hours later… my new husband returned… to his extremely frustrated wife! I kept probing long enough to find out that he was about to miss the deadline for getting his Fantasy Football teams set up… and heaven forbid he had the same line-up as last week when one of his bench players could have scored him an extra 2 points… then he had to reply to a post… someone joked about one of his players on the blog section… he had to defend his honor, right?!? Uh-huh… I guess that answers the age-old question…

Of course, it must be the ladies fault. Here are some comments left on the blogs discussing this

Im gonna make a very serious comment here. Your man probably spends all that time on fantasy sports sites because you dont suck his cock enough. THATS THE QUALITY TIME HE’S LOOKING FOR!!! If he is choosing between talking to your dumbass or fantasy sports, you lose every time. If you suck his cock, he’ll come running back. Its that fucking easy.

That chink needs to learn to keep her fucking yap shut!!

well….a couple of nuts up her ass would probably do the trick…..

well….that and a ball-gag

Oh silly me. I thought we were here for emotional as well as psychical fulfillment. I am sorry, I forgot we were just holes that you come to went you want to stick your penis in something warm. I am just so naive teehee!

And some more random ones from here:

“Widows” is such a hard term. I prefer “sandwich makers”.

W.A.F.S. = We Are Fat Shrews

Two months out of the year? Haven’t these cunts heard of fantasy NASCAR and golf?

Those are some pretty busted women on the website. Have they ever considered that might be the reason why no one is spending time with them?

Our own fansiders have gotten into it too. From Atlanta:

The reason this woman is against fantasy sports is because her husband found something more interesting to him than watching the style network and talking about how Oprah is getting fat….. again.

Even when WAFS speaks back, sort of bemused:

I was perusing some of the sites that were obviously WAY too offended by what we are doing over here. Well I guess the fear of getting women away from the sandwich making has really struck a nerve. Listen guys…RELAX. Think of it as a positive. Now you don’t have to pretend you don’t see the eyes rolling back into your loved ones head…maybe now she will get out enough frustration on our site that she will be more relaxed when you get to bed (if you are picking up what I am putting down). If you think about it, it’s really a win-win situation. Lighten up and let the ladies have a little fun. Now don’t you think you better get back to the computer…it’s almost time to start another draft…

This is their first response:

I think you’ve gotten me to see the light… let me go see if I can register MASITC.com.

What is that you ask? Men Against Sex In The City… i’m so sick of my fiance having a hobby that doesn’t involve me. She’s so damn selfish.

So basically if you don’t enjoy your man dwindling away countless hours looking at stats of big burly men:

You’re fat.
You’re stupid.
You’re a shrew.
You’re ugly.
You should be seen and not heard.
There’s nothing interesting about you.
All you’re good for is sex.
Oh, and making sandwiches.

That is why your man is with you and don’t you ever forget! Who are you to say that you don’t like one of their hobbies! Who are you to disagree with them! You’re just here because they want you here, not because they love you. You’re just so selfish for wanting to spend time with a man who you think cares about you. So unreasonable, you ladies. I guess you guys just can’t help it. You are ladies after all. Too many emotions get in the way of rational thoughts.

We also can’t forget the women who have found a nice niche in the sports world. Women, who want to stay in the cool zone of “that awesome girl who likes sports — you’re so much cooler than those other women who don’t get it” or (dare I say it?) “you’re one of the good ones” have even gone after WAFS:

You girls need to get a life. It is the complaining and starting of websites like this that put women in a bad light. I am married and play in a fantasy league with my husband and both our families. Nothing could turn him on more. Not only has my knowledge of the most popular game in the country increased ten fold but I get to brag as I beat my husband, his brother, and most importantly my mother-in-law. If your husbands and boyfriends and spending all their free time on fantasy football, don’t blame the game…blame yourself!

I think that response, out of all of them, has me floored. Yes. How dare… a woman… not enjoy… her husbands… hobby? How dare she complain about something her loved one does that annoys her? Oh sorry, wait, no. You’re the perfect wife. You have it figured out. My bad.

There is no requirement that says you have to get yourself into your guy’s hobbies to spend time with them. It is sad state of affairs if the only way you can see them is if you take on their interests. It means they don’t know what it is like to balance a relationship in their own lives and that is not their lady’s fault.

And even if it is all in jest, how could people not read what they write and not see how a woman can be completely turned off by the sports world? I am pretty disgusted myself.