Imagine if your favorite football team was driving into the red zone and you could become the offensive coordinator and call the play to get them into the end zone for the winning touchdown. Or act as the team’s general manager and select the next great overlooked player to become a star.
Your chance may have arrived.
Beginning in February, Utah will welcome its newest professional sports team and, in addition to players, it is fielding a brand-new approach to how the game will be played.
“You take fantasy football and inject it with (steroids),” said Thom Carter, president of the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles, offering a quick description of the new approach. The team is one of the latest entrants into the Indoor Football League, a 10-team association that will play a 16-game season starting in February 2017.
Carter said the Screaming Eagles hope to capitalize on the enormous popularity of fantasy football and electronic gaming to create a first-of-its-kind interactive experience for hardcore fans, casual football enthusiasts and general sports lovers locally, nationally and globally.
“Because fans are more educated than they’ve ever been, why not empower them in a way they have never been empowered,” he said.
