Rating: 5/5

Three-Word Summary: Fantasy football freaks

With football season upon us once more, it’s only appropriate that I review the best (and only) show about fantasy football: The League.

The show is about six increasingly despicable friends from Chicago who do deplorable things and make continuous fools of themselves. And occasionally play fantasy football against one another.

There’s Pete who divorced his wife to play fantasy football. Kevin and Jenny who care more about their players than their own children. Andre is the unwitting butt of everyone’s jokes.

Then there’s, Ruxin, the sleazy attorney with possibly the lowest morale standards of the group. And finally Taco (yes, that’s his name), Kevin’s younger, stoner brother who ignores football for the sake of his own bizarre, entrepreneurial spirit.

Somehow, this moronic group is able to meet countless NFL players (in cameo appearances) and manages to insult or piss off nearly every single one.

As you might expect from a show targeted almost exclusively to men, the humor is slightly crude. Just slightly. But it’s nevertheless hilarious. The premise mostly revolves around the characters making idiots of themselves. Repeatedly.

Of course, there’s also the terminology.  The show single-handedly invented all of the original phrases about fantasy football: roster churn, trade rape, Eskimo brothers. Most of them are either homophobic or chauvinistic. Or both. Still funny.

Much of the scenes said to be improvised by the actors, which is believable since many of the scenes are of the characters mercilessly belittling one another.

Perhaps this review doesn’t put me in the best light since I enjoy this kind of show. Kind of like how thinking of football as modern gladiators doesn’t make you think too highly of football fans. Oh well.