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If, for some reason, you find the urge to go sleep or immediately change the channel following It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s Thursday broadcast, FX is giving viewers a 3^rd chance to right their wrongs and stay tuned for arguably the most entertaining newcomer over the past 2 football seasons. No, football season and TV seasons are not one in the same, but for the FX-original series The League, the two walk hand in hand. Recently renewed for a 3^rd season, much to the delight of yours truly, The League is to legions of cleverer-than-thou Fantasy Football nerds what Sex and the City was to desperate middle-aged women. In fact, the two shows draw further parallels in that The League is only partially about fantasy football just as SITC centered around men on only a primarily superficial level. Instead, what The League represents is a realistic (assuming every fantasy football league could score NFL cameos and finance/execute quality music videos) depiction of male friendship, treating each other and talking to one another like guys really do and addressing topics guys actually talk about.Whether it’s better for female counterparts to be let in on the full breadth of discourse at-hand is an entirely different matter of personal opinion. Fortunately, show creators helped to mitigate this potential problem by centering the show around fantasy sports, a subject as apathetic among much of the female population as the male interest in Carrie Bradshaw’s endless line of designer shoes and handbags. In short, it’s a crude, demeaning, wildly inappropriate, yet endearing, hilarious and bitingly accurate. The League remains a must see, particularly for male sports fans under 40, and if you’re already watching Always Sunny with regularity, the guess here is, regardless of gender, you’re right in the show’s target wheelhouse.