Committed : Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie

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Summary: Every Fantasy Football Junkie should have this
Review: Awesome book. I think that every fantasy football player should get this book. I don't know how many times I was reading this and thought that St. Amant was a fly on the wall in my house during the football season. It seemed his experiances were a mirror of mine. It crakcs me up to witness someone losing their mind the way I do in the progress of a Fantasy Football season. A must read!

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Summary: Good As Money In The Bank
Review: Finally someone puts down in print the beast that is fantasy football. The ups and downs and the craziness that it creates. This book pretty much sums up what I deal with each fall and is filled with great laughs and even better insight into the mind of a fantasy junkie.

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Summary: Fantasy Football Anonymous!
Review: I feel like I need to join a FFA group after reading "Committed." This is a book not only for those involved in Fantasy Football, but for the friends, family and specifically, spouses who want to understand what our leagues entail and what the fascination is with Fantasy Football. It is a well-wrtten book and Mark will leave you shaking your head throughout the book, oftentimes hitting very close to home on how you engage with your team/league. The excitement of Draft Day, the stud vs. match up decisions, juggling time between responsibilities of doing the "family thing" and FFL research; waiver wire management, executing trades, etc...Mark hits on all of these topics with passion and humor. This is a great book for all to enjoy. If you've never joined a Fantasy Football league, you will be inclined to do so and if you are a seasoned FFL veteran, you will pick up some tips and gain useful information from "Committed." Every feeling you had during your past seasons in FF gets brought up again...for good and for bad! This is definitely a book I would not trade!

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Summary: Illiterate about fantasy football? This is the book for you!
Review: I picked out this book on the title alone; it sounded interesting and even though I did not know the first thing about fantasy football, I figured it would be a good learning experience. Well it turned out to be more than that. I began to feel the pain and euphoria that Mark experienced when his team won or lost and I found myself rooting for a guy I never met and a team of players that I'd never heard of. (That shows just how little I knew about real football, let alone fantasy.) After finishing the book in record time, you definitely want to keep reading to find out what happens to his team, I realized I had found the perfect gift for half of my friends, both male and female. I haven't yet decided to try fantasy football for myself, but I have decided that Mark St. Amant is a great storyteller and I look forward to future publishings.

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Summary: Now I Get It.
Review: I've never played FF. I've never wanted to play FF. And it seems like I've been surrounded by FF players (everywhere) for years. MSAINT's Fight Club analogy is perfect. I was in the airport recently and the guard (an African-American woman) at the check through grabbed the book off the conveyor and ran to show it to her colleagues. They were all players. Never understood it before. Now I get it. In this fast paced romp, you learn it all looking over the author's shouder on his wild ride through another season. I can't wait for next season.

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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: If you are a fantasy football nut, you will love this book. I really wanted to see if i was the only person addicted to fantasy football. To my delight, and my girlfriends, I am not the only person like this. This book tells the true story of fantasy football. It explains exactly what goes on in the fantasy "war room." I have read it twice and still cant stop laughing. Thanks Mark, best money i have spent in a long time.

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Summary: The greatest sports book ever!
Review: If you like any of the following: football, fantasy football, or laughing out loud, you're going to love this book. I'm 34 years old, and it's the first time I felt someone was writing a book just for me. He shares his experiences with not only football, but how it affects his personal life as well. A key lesson of the book is learing how to balance the two. But the reason to buy the book is that you won't go one chapter without laughing so hard you'll have trouble breathing. Mark St. Amant writes sports humor better than anyone, including Rick Reily from SI. If you're in a fantasy league, have everyone buy it, so you can all talk about it at your '05 draft. There will never be another book like it.

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Summary: Committed - An absolute joy to read
Review: Mark St. Amant captures every sports fanatic's thoughts, dreams, and techniques as well as any author ever will. Anyone who has played fantasy football for more than a year will see himself in various St. Amant stories and situations.

We all know "The Guy". We all love the draft. We all think our team is the best after the draft. Anyone worth a damn knows about RBBC, and the relationship that coaches who use it have with Satan. The words, stories, and various fantasy football tidbits are stolen thoughts, stolen right out of my head. Mark St. Amant not only did his homework, he aced it! He knows the mind and soul of someone who plays fantasy football.

Not only is the book great, but St. Amant is a hero to any fantasy football fan. He quit his job to play, live, sleep, eat, and research fantasy football! It's a dream that many can't fulfill.

I loved the book from page one's idea, to the last page's outcome. It was a book that was simply impossible to put down. The ups and downs were so real that they could be touched. With every success - and every Priest Holmes explosion - a reader can share the joy. However, with every RBBC moment or QB indecision that cost Mark points, it was a dagger to the gut.

Possibly the best thing I can say is that if Mark St. Amant decided to write a book called "Committed 2", and it was basically the same book with just a new season's thoughts and exploits, I'd happily and eagerly read it.


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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This is one of the few books that I actually found myself laughing out loud at. The fact of the matter is that if you are a beginner, or an advanced FF manager this book is for you. Even if you don't play FF it is worth a read, as the book is very funny.