I once played fantasy football and found it took up way too much of my time. It's bad enough sitting inside on a beautiful fall Sunday watching the game, let alone spending more time every week crunching fantasy numbers. But fantasy football is a world practically begging to be spoofed, and "The League," airing Thursday nights on FX, is happy to comply.

"The League" tells the tale of five foul-mouthed friends (this is FX, after all) who obsess over their fantasy football league rosters. There's reigning champ Pete, who is recently separated from his wife; new dad Ruxin, who is having marital problems of his own thanks to the baby; dorky plastic surgeon Andre, who still takes constant abuse from his comrades even though he's rich; league commissioner Kevin, who lets his wife make all of his important football decisions; and Kevin's brother, Taco, who is the resident slacker and charmer of women.

I wanted to like "The League," figuring if I didn't have the time or energy to partake in actual fantasy football, that I could at least get a residual taste via this sitcom. Yet the show is a wasted opportunity, as it's just a bunch of dudes and one woman hanging out over beers and obsessing about sports. In other words, it's just like TBS's "My Boys," only with four-letter words and lewd jokes thrown in.

Unfortunately, the characters of "The League" have neither the humor nor the chemistry to click like their TBS counterparts. The show's not awful, but certainly nothing original or special either. To put it in fantasy football terminology: consider "The League" worth a mid-round pick, but nothing more.