If you’re not watching “The League,” or at the very least, if you don’t have the show in your Instant Netflix queue yet, then you don’t get to sit at the cool kids table. “It’s Always Sunny” and “Archer” tend to get most of the Internet attention when it comes to F/X shows, but it’s “The League” that — in its third season, at least — is the most consistently funny. It’s like an ensemble version of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” that just happens to revolve around a fantasy football league, though the premise is tertiary to the actual shenanigans. Also, never take fantasy football advice from anyone on the show. They’re is some kind of pansy 8-person league where everybody’s team is stacked with studs, and it’s a snake draft. Snake drafts are for amateurs.

Anyway, it’s an awesome show, which has featured guests appearances this season alone from Jeff Goldblum, Sarah Silverman, and Seth Rogen. And F/X yesterday had the good sense to renew show for another season, which means more Nick Kroll, and Nick Kroll is responsible for 30 percent of the sun’s power. FACT. And after the jump, I’m going to throw seven more “The League” connections at you that might just blow your mind.

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FX has begun production on a pilot called “The League,” about a group of men in the same fantasy football league in suburban Chicago.  Under-the-radar indie actor Mark Duplass will star in the main role.

“The League” follows the group as they deal with issues of friendship, relationships and parenthood.  Duplass stars along with Nick Kroll (“I Love You Man”), Paul Sheer (“Human Giant”), Steve Rannazzisi (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop”) and Jon Lajoie. Also in the cast are Leslie Bibb (“Iron Man”), Katie Aselton (“The Office”) and Nadine Velazquez (“My Name Is Earl”).

In the pilot, Duplass plays Pete, a married man pondering whether to have a baby. “God bless fantasy football,” Pete says in the script. “There are many things a man can do with his time. This is better than those things.” [Variety]

I definitely don’t hate this.  That’s a pretty good cast, and FX seems to genuinely care about making smart, edgy TV programs.  It’s basically the opposite of CBS.

(And since I don’t really have anything else to say about this, I’d just like to point out that Duplass stars in True Adolescents, an indie movie currently making the film festival rounds that was written and directed by an NYU film school grad student named Craig Johnson, who used to be my roommate.  Because that’s what really matters: how does it relate to me?  Anyway, small world.  You don’t care.  Move along.)