There’s No Worse Feeling Than When Someone Beats You To A Shark Tank-Worthy Idea

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 A.D.

I’ll be the first to say it, I am a sucker for Instagram advertising. They have “gotten” me more times than I’d be willing to admit. Whether it was a piece of Buffalo’s turf or even the new Crucial Catch tie-dye hats, I am exactly who Instagram is targeting. I might as well have ‘sucker’ written on my forehead.

So there I was innocently scrolling Instagram and BAM! another advertisement smacked me right in the face. As per usual, it grabbed my attention, and it’s pretty easy to see why:

There are a number of reasons why this caught my eye, but first and foremost, I love dogs, ESPECIALLY home underdogs. I salivate over home underdogs in prime-time. I also love fantasy. I’m in too many leagues (7 of my own and 8 if you count my fiancé’s league – not to brag that I’m engaged), I love every single thing about fantasy.

After I got over the name of the app, I read the caption. “1-week fantasy football snake draft for cash.” Wait hold up, has someone been reading my text messages? No, not the FBI, I’m talking about a THIEF. This is literally what my friends (Hubb included, shoutout fellow KB writer) and I have been doing for 3 years now. We have an entire group chat devoted specifically to it. Our group does at least 1 snake draft per week, or as we like to call it, “Draction” (draft action). We always do $5 a person and winner take all each week. You’ll see us getting a little crazy some weeks where we’ll do a 1pm only draft or a Monday-Thursday draft. And then there’s some weeks (like week 1) where we’ll have 4 different drafts and, at that point, you don’t even know who to cheer for on Sunday. Pure bliss.

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To make it even more of a kick in the nuts, the app is allegedly backed by the Shark himself Mark Cuban, Adam Schefter, and the snake Kevin Durant. So you mean to tell me that all these years of us drafting in a group chat, we could have been developing an app and getting financially backed by some of the biggest names in sports? Sheesh. I mean, to say that we missed out on millions, is a gross understatement (…or a net understatement. Not entirely sure how finances work?).