Yahoo Sports-Three million people competed at fantasy football on ESPN.com this year. One man managed to rise above all of them, and he did it despite not having a computer. Or a place to live.
For the sake of comparison, I finished under .500 in a league of 12 people, and I spend all day with my face buried in NFL news, stats and highlights.
Obviously, Nathan Harrington, 33, of Salem, Mass., knows something I don't. Harrington ended up homeless after needing back surgery, going on medical leave from his job, and being forced to leave his home because it was condemned.
And still, he was better than over 3 million people at fantasy football.
He used computers at his father's nursing home, his mother's house, and the library. He knocked on neighbors' doors and asked if he could use their computers.
If you're wondering about specifics, Harrington drafted Arian Foster(notes) and picked up Brandon Lloyd(notes) as a free agent. He made trades for Adrian Peterson and Dwayne Bowe(notes).
Oddly, Tony Romo(notes) was his quarterback, but when Romo went down with a season-ending injury, Harrington had to make due with a string of borderline fantasy quarterbacks. He clinched the top spot behind Tim Tebow's surprising Week 17 performance against the Chargers. From The Salem News:
"My fantasy football was the one thing that kind of seemed to be going right at the time," Harrington said. "There was a lot to be upset about, but the one thing that was steady and heading in a positive direction was the fantasy football. So I thought I might as well stick with it and ride it out. Thank God I did."
Is this surprising to anyone? A guy with nothing to do all day but sit at the computer and wait for players to become available and pick them up wins? I mean first off this guy’s homeless story is kinda suspect; ok he had back surgery and went on medical leave? You get paid for that, don’t you? And he was kicked out of his house, not because he couldn’t make payments and the bank foreclosed on it. No he was kicked out because it was condemned? So basically this guy was a fucking slob. Does anyone else watch the show “hoarders”, because those people live in the biggest scariest hellholes on Earth and their houses are NOT condemned, so this motherfuckers house must have been something special. And don’t give me that, oh your so insensitive blah, this is a heartwarming story blah fucking blah. I call em like I read em and my man Nathan needs to get his shit in order. 1. Stop treating your house like a landfill and maybe the authorities will let you live in it. 2. Now that your back is better, instead of going door to door asking to use your neighbor’s computer like a creep, go get a fucking job.
P.S. I’m so glad this story was made out to be some magical dream come true type story. Guy didn’t win a million dollars and is able to get his life back on track, he won fucking Best Buy gift cards, which his own fucking mother took him for, Christ ill buy those gift cards for $3000 and still come out $500 up. Lady must really hate her son, if she’s got $2500 bucks to throw around and can’t even give the guy an airmattress to crash on.
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