Every year millions of football fanatics all across the United States take part in what we like to call "fantasy football." It is a specific league in which you create your own team and through a series of points you compete with other members each week. This year there were over 3.1 million competitiors in the ESPN league. Of all those people, the person who beat out the other millions of people actually was a homeless man.
Nathan Harrington was in a bad car accident that caused nerve and back problems and forced him to leave his marketing job. Months later he was forced to move out of his apartment due to the rat infestation and was left homeless and had to live out of cheap motels. He had no access to a computer and was having to either sneak into a public library every week to set up his team or he would walk to his mothers house to use her internet access. The grand prize he got for winning this league was a $3,500 gift card to Best Buy. He ended selling the gift card to his own mother for $2500.
I decided to post this in my blog because I just find this story amazing in so many different ways. It is amazing his will power and how one single fantasy sport gave a man hope and a chance to start over again. My main reason for posting this though is because this story just proves how accessible media is to anyone. I mean think about it, a man who had nothing, no car, no computer, no job, was able to beat out over 3 million other competitors and win ESPN's fantasy football league. It proves that if you want access to media, you can get it just about anyway that you want to.
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