There was only one reason people were still watching late in the New Orleans Saints-Chicago Bears game on Monday night, and it wasn't the stellar level of play.
It's fantasy football playoffs time, and for two losing teams the Saints and Bears have a lot of guys who were on rosters. And as everyone knows, fantasy football is played by millions of people.
If you had Bears receiver Alshon Jeffery on Monday night and needed him to do something to win your semifinal playoff game, you weren't thrilled most of the night. He had a surprisingly quiet night, considering Brandon Marshall was out and he should have gotten plenty of targets. And in Utah, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox was gripping.
See, I told you everyone plays fantasy football these days.
Ah, but the patience shown by Cox and many other degenerates who were on the edge of their seats for a 31-8 game was rewarded. In the garbage-est of all garbage-time scores, Jeffery hauled in a 7-yard touchdown from the wonderfully erratic Jay Cutler with 30 seconds left.
Notice that I didn't say it was a "meaningless" touchdown.
So there you have it, the beauty that is fantasy football. Thousands of leagues probably turned on a score that, if not for fantasy, not even Jeffery's mother would have cared about. Of course there are plenty of people going from cubicle to cubicle today telling the bad-beat story about how they held the lead until that no-good Jeffery scored with 30 seconds left, but that's why they'll come back to play next year.
(H/T to @natecarlisle for sending along Cox's tweets.)
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Frank Schwab is the editor of Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at shutdowncorner@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @YahooSchwab
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