Get in the game
You’ve heard of Fantasy Football…of course. Well, this was probably inevitable, since that participator phenomenon has run the gamut through the sports world to include Fantasy Fishing. I just saw a news feature about that one other day, and couldn’t believe it.
So this was inevitable. Fantasy Congress. Really. I saw the guys behind it on Neil Cavuto’s show on Fox News, and it’s interesting. They’re really into it, and I’m pretty impressed that participants get into the details of Congressional track records and bills and votes and who’s doing what in the House and Senate. Which was their idea all along. Or as they put it, the power to “play politics.”
As in other fantasy sports, you – the Citizen – draft a team of real-life legislators from the U.S. Congress and score points for your team’s successes. Join a league and compete against other Citizens, or form a league of your own! Play against your friends, family, bloggers, fellow politicos, or even a sitting U.S. Senator (one could be playing incognito, you never know!). On weekends, move Members of Congress into your active line-up or off your team to strategize for the upcoming week of legislation!
These guys have capitalized on a good idea.
By inspiring people to care about government as much as they care about sports, Fantasy Congress hopes to encourage government transparency and responsibility while educating the governed.
Fantasy Congress watches members of government as closely as Fantasy Football, or Baseball, or Golf…or whatever…watches players.
Our database is the largest and broadest of its kind, and is updated daily. At the intersection of all of this information, students follow legislation precisely, monitor members of Congress of their own choice, and best of all compete with their friends in the game, in a classroom league or in informal leagues of their own design.
I saw their zeal on Cavuto’s show. They love what they’re doing, and want participants to learn it and love it as much as they do.
Now that you know what it is, make your decision: Watch politics or play politics.
The party holding majority power in Congress changes from time to time, and the presidential campaigns have already begun, even though it seems like we’re sitll living through the aftermath of the last one. If there’s anything new in politics at all, this is it.
