You’re closing in on being 100 years young. What’s your greatest fantasy?

To go the whole day without crapping yourself? To win today’s BINGO contest? To remember your name?

Nah, these Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center residents have bigger fantasies: Fantasy football that is.

The Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center started fantasy football – a game that has mostly been the all-male domain of twentysomething office pools and barroom bettors – early this fall, in hopes it would liven up ho-hum Sunday afternoons for its elderly residents.

Now, halfway through the season, the league is more successful than Beaumont’s recreation assistant Lindsay Benedetto ever thought possible.

In just two months, attendance at televised Sunday afternoon games in the third-floor common room has doubled, and about a dozen seniors between the ages of 77 and 93 earn points weekly depending on the performance of their NFL teams.

We can’t wait to see these folks go nuts for March Madness pools.