Fantasy Football Season Makes Direct TV NFL Sunday Ticket Hot Item

For a couple of decades fantasy football enthusiasts were slaves to ESPN crawls and network updates. But NFL Sunday Ticket has changed the face of this amazing game.

When I first started playing fantasy football nearly two decades ago, I was a stats-starved NFL fan every Sunday. Playing fantasy football in the old days was like using dial-up Internet -- the wait destroyed the fun.

Today, things have changed. Direct TV's NFL Sunday Ticket is the hottest item in the fantasy sports world, beaming every NFL game into your home or favorite watering hole each Sunday. Now, instead of waiting for a network crawl to show the individual statistics, for which every fantasy football player clamors, you can watch the action live, so you see every great catch, run and touchdown.

Of course, NFL.com is a great place to get your real-time scores, if you're not near a TV, plugged into NFL Sunday Ticket, but if you are as rabid a fantasy football competitor as I am, then you will want to see the action, as it happens.

I anticipate Sundays, during the NFL season, like a seven-year-old yearns for Christmas day. Put me in front of four TVs, each showing a different NFL game, and I'm tuned into all of my fantasy football players' moves.

With NFL Sunday Ticket, I feel like I'm there; I shout out more direction than most coaches.

If you play fantasy football, and you haven't experienced the excitement of Direct TV's NFL Sunday Ticket, you don't truly understand the thrill of fantasy football.