The Fantasy Show
| The Fantasy Show | |
|---|---|
| Starring |
Rob Stone Matthew Berry Ron Jaworski |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | ESPN2 |
| Original release | August 31 – November 9, 2006 |
The Fantasy Show is a fantasy football talk and debate show on ESPN2. The show was supposed to air for 18 weeks a year during the National Football League season every Thursday at 6:30pm ET on ESPN2. However, the debut season of the show only had 11 episodes (see the Cancellation or Termination debate below).
The thirty-minute program consisted of stats, charts, recommended benchings, trash talking, trade debates and updates on the personalities of The Fantasy Show's own fantasy football league. The Fantasy Draft Special aired at a special time at 5:30pm ET on Thursday, August 31, 2006. An odd thing about The Fantasy Show from other shows is that it was broadcast in a living room type set and Stone, Berry and Jaworski were dressed in casual apparel. It was produced by ESPN Original Entertainment.
The show was hosted by ESPN veteran Rob Stone, who has covered the MLS and World Cup the majority of his time at ESPN. Joining Stone was fantasy expert Matthew Berry from TalentedMrRoto.com and seventeen-year NFL veteran Ron Jaworski. Others contributing to the show were: Will Carroll, who served as the Injury Insider, Antonio Freeman, hosting the segment called Free's Flex, where he would inform fantasy players of the second and third wide receivers they needed to acquire and start and Danni Boatwright, who also contributed to the show.
While Freeman's Free's Flex included information about unnoticed and under-the-radar players, the advice of main commentator Matthew Berry was often extreme and over-the-top.
On the October 19, 2006 episode of The Fantasy Show, Berry advised fantasy owners of LaDainian Tomlinson to trade him away claiming that Tomlinson would never have another game that season with four touchdowns as he had done the previous Sunday when the San Diego Chargers beat the San Francisco 49ers, claiming Tomlinson's fantasy value was as high as it would ever get and that fantasy owners should cash in on Tomlinson's currently over-inflated value. Tomlinson since Berry's statement went on to have two more games where he scored four touchdowns for the Chargers in NFL weeks 10 and 11. Berry also stated that he did not believe St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson would rush for 1,000 yards as he had done in the 2005 NFL season. Jackson crossed the 1,000 yard mark in week 13 of the 2006 NFL season, with 4 games still remaining on the Rams schedule. Such bold and incorrect predictions would have proved unpopular amongst the audience members who followed Berry's advice.
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