I will take the skit over that NFL fantasy football commercial that re-runs constantly. The commercial shows various competitors "having a bad day" with their fantasy football leagues. All of the competitors except one are shown as slightly disappointed poutty males. Each one (if memory serves) wears either typical NFL apparel or (at worst) a faded team t-shirt. All but one named their fantasy football team which a description applicable to their favorite team (e.g. "Behind the Steel Curtain" for the Steeler fan) or football jargon (e.g. "Fourth and 10"). All of the competitors except one are shown in the friendly confines of their homes or sports bar.
The exception?
No offense intended to the forum's female members but I do not appreciate the NFL constantly showing a highly distraught woman, crying and sobbing, mascara running everywhere, sitting in an isolated parked car, wearing a faded pink #9 jersey, self-identified with a non-team/individual fantasy football moniker of "Romolicious." The marketing imagery is transparent. Fans of 31 franchises play fantasy football as an extension of their controlled fanaticism for their favorite teams or the league. However, one group of fans associate their uncontrolled fanaticism with their team's most criticized player and not the team itself.
To me, it is a unnecessary swipe at Cowboy fans. There are plenty of female fans who are Cowboy fans that play fantasy football. I am certain that the typical female Cowboy fan does not crumble emotionally whenever their fantasy football team does not do well. The NFL could have made a commercial as equally humorous or more humorous, showing a female Cowboy fan wearing Cowboy apparel similar to her other team fans, appearing as sad as the other team fans without looking depressingly suicidal. It is ridiculous how marketing creators separate this franchise and its fans from the rest of the league in often disparaging visuals.
