Brady’s Injury Felt by Entire Industry
In case you missed it Sunday, Tom Brady suffered a torn left ACL when Kansas City safety Bernard Pollard’s helmet hit his knee.
Also, there’s a presidential election scheduled for some time this year.
It goes without saying that everyone involved with fantasy football has been thinking about, writing about and grieving for the loss since about 1:15 Sunday afternoon. Are we taking this a little too seriously, though.
Actually, according to CNBC’s Darren Rovell, we might not be taking it seriously enough. Rovell — working with numbers provided by Jeff Thomas, Fantasy Sports Trade Association president and founder and CEO of World Sports Technology Inc., which owns this site — reports that Sunday’s knee injury for the ages will ultimately mean a shift of $150 million in fantasy winnings this season.
That amount doesn’t even take into account the potential effect of Brady’s injury on his receivers, the team’s running backs, the defense and opponents who won’t have to worry about scoring as many points to have a chance against the Patriots.
No matter what the dollar figures end up being, no one can argue that the torn ACL suffered in Foxborough on Sunday completely altered the 2008 fantasy landscape.
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