Fantasy Husbands: The New Game for Sports Widows

Since the advent of televised sporting events there have been sports widows. An entire legion of beautiful domestic engineers (goddesses) who are left to fend for themselves during their husbands particular sporting season. For most sports widows this is a period of time that ranges from 6 to 8 months and lasts about 4 to 6 hours 3 to 4 times per week. Now that is a lot of time to be ignored.

Thus in the past many women who find themselves in this position have only had a couple of options. The most obvious of course was to just give in, sit down and learn to enjoy their man's past time. Secondly, many afflicted with the problem found it strangely cathartic to see how disturbed and angry they could make their spouse. (One bad side effect of this strategy was the invention of the Sports Bar. So that now when he takes you to dinner during his season he still gets to watch the game.) Thirdly, I believe this is why credit cards were invented. But now as the century has turned and sports widows have reared their beautiful heads one more time, we now have FANTASY HUSBANDS!!

A thrill a minute game that includes all the fun of rotisserie sports but without the sport. There are drafts and trades and points to be calculated and winners to be determined. Then you get to talk about it all week long. (Well you were talking about your real husbands anyway. Why not talk about that fantasy guy now.) The game is simple. The rules simpler. The rewards, well depends on how big this thing can get.

How to Play: First you must find a place to play. Then you register. Draft three new husbands for the week. There is an area where you get to learn about all 20 husbands in the draft. You get to see their responses to situations and questions and choose. Then there are other items to keep you intrigued.

Rules: Well the best I can determine they are summarized here. Each week these 20 men are asked a series of questions and they answer it. Once answered the responses are graded by a panel of judges, scores are tallied and the winners are announced. Each week you can choose up to 3 husbands for your stable and the high score wins. Scoring is on a 0-100 point basis. With scoring titles such as "Call Divorce Attorney" for a low of 10 points to "Night on the Couch" for 40 points and "He'll Score Big" for 100 points, this game is sure liable to cause some fights. Especially when your wife starts describing the big game situation that her fantasy husband has to navigate this week. Then she her real husband what he would do. This game is filled with danger for men of all ages.

While I greatly admire the creativity to come up with this game. I am sorely pressed to see how it promote a general well being about husbands. My guess is that as the players begin to discuss how they did, the real and fantasy may become confused. Remember ladies, fantasy husbands are not real. Take a lesson from the guys. Success at a fantasy sport does not mean your husband in the next Vince Lombardi. Just as your success at Fantasy Husband does not make your pick in men, Phil Donahue or Maury Povich.

Good luck with this game and boy will this be worth watching.