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Fantasyhusband.com: Where fantasy is better than reality.

Written by Jason Zasky   Filed under Life, Sports

With football season just getting underway, countless American males will soon be spending an inordinate amount of time playing fantasy football and tracking the exploits of NFL stars like Peyton Manning and LaDainian Tomlinson. Wives and girlfriends who don’t share a love for the game will feel left out. But now these so-called football widows have an opportunity to play in a fantasy league of their own—fantasyhusband.com’s Fantasy Husband League (FHL)—where the players are “husbands” and the games are of the matrimonial variety.

Founder Kim Cramer, an accountant from Tallahassee, Florida, conceived fantasyhusband.com (“Where the Ladies Score”) three years ago after marveling at co-workers’ devotion to fantasy sports.

“I worked in an office building full of men who devoted a lot of their time to playing fantasy football,” begins Cramer, who says she enjoys watching baseball, football and ice hockey, but couldn’t see herself devoting leisure time to analyzing the statistical performance of professional athletes.

Still, Cramer couldn’t help but notice how men bond over fantasy sports and felt that women ought to have a league geared toward their own interests. So she asked herself: “What do women talk about…? Men and relationships,” she says, answering her own question.

Cramer envisioned women drafting a team of so-called husbands, whose performance would be measured by their responses to a wide variety of relationship challenges. The player whose team of hubbies collectively provided the most thoughtful, considerate and romantic responses would be the winner of each week’s “game.”

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