The Escapist : Fantasy Congress
The Escapist : Fantasy Congress
You probably know your state’s Senators. You may even know your district’s Representative. But do you know their “reported bills average”? How about what schools each one attended, or how many bills they’ve co-sponsored in this, the first session of the 110th Congress? Unless your idea of a fun night involves a bottle of wine, a cozy fire and C-SPANs 1 through 3, you’re far more apt to know Hayden Panettiere’s birthday (8/21/89) or Tom Brady’s quarterback rating (137.9 seven weeks into the ‘07 season) than Hillary Clinton’s Congressional attendance record (84.1 percent). And really, why should you? In an era of sound bites and single-issue voting, there’s not much incentive to be an informed citizen anymore, and even if there were, you’d need a Poli-sci degree to grasp the day-to-day events. Unless you play Fantasy Congress.
A talked to a couple guys a while back about pursuing this idea. We ultimately decided not to do it, but I’ve continued to mull over the idea. Looks like someone beat us to it.
October 30th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
A great idea. Evidently Conner’s fiance Ben and some of his friends also came up with this idea a while back but went nowhere with it. I haven’t actually looked at how easy it is to get started but it might be an interesting exercise for a bunch of friends to try out.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I signed up for a public league. My username is NathanF if you want to try to track me down.