Fantasy Football Drives Fans to Quit Jobs, Hide Office Leagues
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Mark St. Amant was at a crossroads. The 36-year-old associate creative director at Keiler & Co., a Farmington, Connecticut, advertising agency, was finding it difficult to balance his workload with his fantasy football team. So he quit his six-figure-salary job for the chance to win a $700 prize.
“I’d been playing in an office league since the late ‘90s and never won,” St. Amant says. “I came close a few times, but it was an always-a-bridesmaid thing. I realized this job was draining my time and preventing me from winning.”