note: the Media Circus will run Wednesday afternoon.

Fantasy football will cost U.S. employers $9.2 billion in lost work time this season...according to a private research group.

Really? Are we seriously doing this again?  This "report" comes out every year, supposedly to tell us exactly how much of the corporate dollar America is wasting by participating in fantasy football.  Whatever.

The study used 1.19 hours of lost productivity per week, per employee, as their core metric in determining the total value of money lost from fantasy football.

If we're calculating lost costs from hours spent participating in activities outside of "work", allow us to look into another activity that subtracts from the bottom line.

Pooping.

Let's take an average of 10 minutes per day, per employee.  That's conservative, especially around corporate office that have nearby Chinese or Mexican cuisine.

That comes out to a whopping $5.1 billion lost.

Lazy freaking Americans - using corporate time and the company dollar to drop the kids off at the pool?  Shameful.

Get back to work America.  Pinch that loaf on your own time.