Onion Sports' Onion Fantasy Football Begins August 20

　　NEW YORK, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Onion Fantasy Football: Shattered Expectations kicks off its second season on August 20, 2007 online at http://fantasysports.theonion.com. Competing for more than $10,000 in cash prizes Onion Fantasy Football participants will be rewarded for the incompetence and underperformance of their drafted NFL players. New for the 2007 season, Onion Fantasy Football will feature real time scoring, an Onion Sports blog and daily Onion Sports updates. The Onion now offers the chance for truly well-rounded fantasy players to take advantage of every aspect of the game.

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    Onion Fantasy Football participants will pick the NFL players most likely to under perform in each of the traditional fantasy positions (QB, RB, WR/TE, K, D). If you can pick the biggest bunch of disappointments, let-downs, and general losers-of-the-week from our pre-picked pool of superstars, you win $500. Predict a perfect train wreck of a season-17 weeks' worth of overpaid fumbles, over-hyped interceptions, and dismal underproduction, and earn a cool $5,000. All it takes is a cool, calculated sense of cynicism, a discerning eye for the overrated, and a willingness to trust that sinking feeling in your gut.

    Every day, the Onion Sports Staff will update http://fantasysports.theonion.com with a new pick for the upcoming weekend's most disappointing performance. The brand new Onion Sports blog will allow participants to publicly throw in their two cents on that selection in the comments section.

    An expansion of Onion Sports, Onion Fantasy Football debuted in 2006 with more than 10,000 participants and awarded more than $10,000 in cash.

    Launched in November 2005, Onion Sports brought The Onion's inimitable brand of hard-hitting reportage and discerning editorial standards to the arena of international sport. Examples of Onion Sports coverage include "Terrell Owens Preemptively Disparages Next Contract"; "Antonio Alfonseca Leads League in Fingers"; "ESPN Courts Female Viewers With World's Emotionally Strongest Man;" and "No Sh--: Barry Bonds Took Steroids, Reports Everyone Who Has Ever Watched Baseball."

    "We cover the sports stories other news outlets fail to cover," said Onion Sports Editor John Krewson. "For example, Somalia's big win in the Third World cup was an important story, glossed over because it was an uplifting, if tragic and horrifying, story in a world that wants glossy personality driven fairy tales. Of course, we're just as willing to show the tragic and horrifying side of glossy personality-driven fairy tales. That's the Onion Sports commitment to excellence."

    Fantasy sports will never be the same. Sign up for Onion Fantasy Football at http://fantasysports.theonion.com.

    Source: The Onion