Man Punks Fantasy Football Foe With Fake Sports Report

Its not a touchdown, its a takedown!

Fantasy football doesnt award points for pre-game taunting, but a guy in Lombard, Illinois, deserves some kind of honor for the way he punked a fellow player.

Earlier this week, John Fitz created a fake sports report to deliberately taunt Steve Fay, a longtime fan and commissioner in their fantasy football league.

The elaborately conceived video is made to look like a real news report from an outlet called Double Cheese News, with Fitz as a tough-talking broadcaster:

Much-maligned commissioner Steven Fay has never been known for his fantasy football skills, but things are quickly going from bad to worse.
Double Cheese News set out to ask: Just how much does Steve suck at fantasy football? The answer may shock you.

The video includes comments from fellow players in the fantasy football league and one from Fays sister who says hes always been a disappointment as a brother. I cant imagine what hed be like in fantasy football.

Fitz admits Fay is actually good at fantasy football, but he needed to be taken down.

People dont want to trade with him, because they never feel its an even trade, Fitz told HuffPost, adding that theyve been friends since high school.

The video is starting to go viral, which gratifies Fitz, but he is pleased by the reaction from Fay, whose team he will be playing on Sunday.

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There was definitely some choice language, he laughed.

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