Rose and Friedman

While reading this article and its claims about men and televised sports, I began to think of the connection of ways to make spectator sports interaction. The most popular, Fantasy Football, allows men to "pick" their own teams of players and "win" games themselves. What role does interactive games like Fantasy Football play in the concept of sports as a distraction?

Does this role that commentators play as the "ideal spectator" make it a position to be idolized? It seems that more recent generations of young boys grow up wanting to be a sports commentator instead of the tradition fireman or police man.