Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooo. If you play fantasy football, you’re going to understand immediately why this is the gut punch to end all gut punches.
ON Tuesday morning, ESPN’s Field Yates tweeted something he found on Reddit: in a semifinal Week 15 game, one team was up by just 0.46 points heading into Monday Night Football. All that owner needed to do was to sit back and watch Eric Ebron and JuJu Smith-Schuster get a couple of points and not, say, fumble or get injured (and before you say the owner should have benched him, there’s always the threat of a late score correction or some leagues have rules about starting a full lineup).
Well … that’s exactly what happened.
Ebron left the loss to the Cincinnati Bengals due to injury with just one target and zero yards on the night for a goose egg. Smith-Schuster totaled just 15 yards and a fumble, so he ended up with minus-0.5 points.
The team lost … by .04 points.
Maybe the worst fantasy beat I’ve ever seen: a guy was up .46 last night with JuJu and Ebron left. His opponent was already done.
Ebron gets hurt early and leaves without a catch, JuJu scores -.5.
He loses the semis by .04 points 😳
Via u/F0rdo on Reddit. pic.twitter.com/H4J89P7YX4
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) December 22, 2020
Oh man. It hurts so much. That’s the worst. So sorry, Turn Goff the Lights
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