Signs It's Your Fantasy Football playoff week

1.) In the course of normal conversation with co-workers, you make bad puns about marginal fantasy players. “I think I heard that Lance had dropped the Ball….get it, get it?”

2.) You call your second cousins, who live in Philadelphia, how the weather MIGHT be on Sunday in order to get a feel of whether you should bench your starting kicker.

3.) Instead of weighing the merits of bringing a motion in a pending case, you instead weigh the merits of starting Damian Williams over Nate Washington.

4.) You listen to Colin Cowherd in order to see if he has one of your fantasy players on his show to make sure your player is not “distracted” going into the weekend.

5.) You ponder the merits of your team name and whether it sounds “strong” and “forceful” enough.

6.) You ponder the merits of posting smack talk to your opponent and weighing the “morale impact” it will have on your team and the “bulletin board” impact it will have on the other team.

7.) You pay $39.50 for NFL Rewind in order to check out the “crispness” of your backup QB’s throws from the last few games.

8.) You find yourself rooting against your favorite childhood team “just for the next couple weeks” in favor of your own fantasy football team.

9.) You cry yourself to sleep wondering “what could have been” if you would just have just spent the $2 on draft night to draft Rob Gronkowski.

10.) You consistently hit “Refresh” on your smartphone on rotoworld.com to see if there are any updates on one of your injured players (also a sure sign of an internet addiction)

11.) You strongly consider calling up your playoff opponent the night before GameDay at 3AM in order to propel him into making “bad last-second lineup decisions” on Sunday morning.

12.) You check your fantasy football team at work. (Not that I do).

13.) You walk around muttering "BEAST MODE" (for Marshawn Lynch) or "Megatron!" (Calvin Johnson) under your breath.

14.) You intentionally walk towards garbage cans and then "shimmy" past them at the last second in your best "(Insert-your-fantasy-RB)" impression.

15.) Reality is lost; the only thing you live, see, and breathe is fantasy football.

OK, it's not that bad.......but it IS Fantasy Football playoff week, and I'm feeling the fever. Get it started off right tonight, MJD!!!!

Fantasize on,

Robert Yan