CHICAGO — Although fantasy football has seen increases in its popularity every year since its creation, it’s one-time rival ‘sci-fi football’ continues to stay completely unrecognized, a trend which has surprised no one.

‘Sci-fi’ football, which originated in the 1960s around the same time as the inception of its “fantasy” counterpart, is a similar game of interactive competition between virtual teams with the only difference being that the stats are collected from an imagined “parallel universe.”

“It literally made no sense” explained Joey Bosquez, who briefly played in a ‘sci-fi’ league before discovering fantasy football, “I remember in the first week, I had Shaun Alexander and he got 3 TDs and ran 200 yards, but then our commissioner only gave me 2 points because apparently in our league’s universe he only ran 15 yards before he had his head blown off by a ray gun.”

According to Bosquez, who quit the game after only three weeks, the entire ‘sci-fi’ football community is comprised of only four people who he says only play as a substitute to dungeons and dragons which they dismiss as being “fantasy bullshit.”

“The craziest part is that I was in a league with the two most normal of those guys,” Bosquez continued shaking his head. “The other two are only into ‘hard sci-fi football’ . . . I think they’re still doing their first season because of all the time-travel and wormholes.”