Fantasy Football Ruining Friendships?

Boston.com- Piling on? Perhaps. But with so much on the line in fantasy football — ego, bragging rights, a serious investment of time, and, in some leagues, money — emotions can run high. Players love the game because it allows them to act just like National Football League team owners and coaches, giving them the power to draft and trade athletes, and to decide whom to play and whom to bench. But it can also pit friend against friend and suck the enjoyment out of football itself.

Ok, now people are losing it over fantasy football? relationships, insults, bad trades, laziness, money and pride...all contributing factors to the idea that fantasy football has relationship flaws. The article talks about a few examples of people losing one or more of their friends over a dispute having to do with fantasy football, and they were all ridiculous. Like how trivial can it get, its a fake football league hence the word 'fantasy' and people treat it like its life and death. Get real, literally and figuratively. People need to wake up and understand that fantasy football was created for the fun aspect of it, not the competitive aspect of it. Although I will agree often times the competitive portion of the idea does make it more fun, but people are taking it too far. Forget friendships, there are reports coming out now that fantasy football is dividing marriages and this, according to Boston.com, has been going on longer than the friendship issues. Wives having to deal with angry spouses because they lost a head-to-head game this week or someone in their league made a trade that is going to affect them negatively, so on and so forth. I mean its kind of Comical. I have participated in Fantasy leagues ranging from football to hockey to soccer, but fortunately, the people I have organized these leagues with have a good enough grip on reality to not let this be a problem. Maybe fantasy leagues should tone it down a little? Take money out? Any thoughts?