ESPN Fantasy Football's website and app went down during Sunday night's game, causing mass hysteria among fans across the country. 
 
 The site broke during the game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos on the opening Sunday of the NFL season. 
 
 
 
 Tried to check his fantasy team on the ESPN app. pic.twitter.com/jH4jq5GoLH — McNeil (@Reflog_18) September 8, 2014 
 
 Fans stamped their feet and shook their fists. Others took to Twitter. 
 
 ESPN's fantasy app and site have been down for about 15 minutes and America hasn't imploded on itself. I've never been prouder of us. — Mark Lazerus (@MarkLazerus) September 8, 2014 
 
 .@ESPN performing "Routine Maintenance" on their Fantasy Football App in the middle of a game. #Fail pic.twitter.com/gDs3cGDIZE — Scott (@Paul5en) September 8, 2014 
 
 Note to ESPN fantasy football: no one is going to call your hotline. Another reason Yahoo FF reigns supreme pic.twitter.com/zDgdWtb35a — Emanuel Freemark (@efreemark) September 8, 2014 
 
 Fans were presented with a maintenance error message telling them to come back in May. Cue uncontrollable sobbing. 
 
 Bad news: ESPN’s #fantasyfootball is down. Good news: you can apparently check back in May! http://t.co/ELxaGwMuUa — SB Nation Fantasy (@SBNationFantasy) September 8, 2014 
 
 What the hell happened to ESPN Fantasy football? The website claims not to worry, that they'll be "up and running by May!" #WTF! — Payman (@Paul_in_NoCal) September 8, 2014 
 
 so @ESPNFantasy outage is going to last until LATE MAY??? pic.twitter.com/imESaMJUCF — Ken Warner (@kenwarner) September 8, 2014 
 
 I have an idea, let's do maintenance during a big Sunday night game - ESPN Fantasy Football — Not Bleacher Report (@BIeacherReport) September 8, 2014 
 
 It was all just too much for some. The end of the world was declared. 
 
 The ESPN Fantasy Football app and website are down...the world is ending. — Remy (@RemyRadio) September 8, 2014 
 
 A few users saw the funny side. 
 
 How I feel about the @espn fantasy football app & site being down. pic.twitter.com/mU3Oobw5pW — Keegan O'Brien (@TheRealKeeganOB) September 8, 2014 
 
 ESPN struggled to bring the issue under control. 
 
 BREAKING: Inside the offices of ESPN Fantasy Football pic.twitter.com/jqXYd7dxso — Not Bleacher Report (@BIeacherReport) September 8, 2014 
 
 Eventually, ESPN released a statement saying they were working to fix the issue. 
 
 We are aware of the current fantasy football outage and are working to resolve these issues — ESPN Fantasy Sports (@ESPNFantasy) September 8, 2014 
 
 ESPN then claimed they had resolved the issue. But football fans didn't agree. 
 
 Will the world ever be right again? We'll keep you posted. 
 
 BONUS: The Rookie's Guide to Fantasy Football ||||| Having your fantasy football provider crash during Week 1 is like DirecTV going out during the Super Bowl, Netflix constantly buffering on the night of the Orange Is The New Black release or Twitter experiencing an outage whenever you feel the need to share your trenchant, pithy analysis of a major world event. 
 
 But that’s what happened to ESPN fantasy players during the Broncos-Colts Sunday night game, a major hardship for thousands who spent frantic minutes unable to check to see whether Reggie Wayne’s last catch inched his point total up by one. Oh, the horror! 
 
 This was the error message seen by many mobile users who tried to check the scores of their Week 1 games. 
 
 Thankfully, the public reacted with calm and perspective. 
 
 ESPN FANTASY FOOTBALLS IS DOWN. NNNNOOOOO!! @ESPNFantasy — AAron fritZZ (@ayefritz96) September 8, 2014 
 
 ESPN Fantasy App down during SNF… devastating — MattHBoss (@MattHBoss) September 8, 2014 
 
 WHY WOULD ESPN DO MAINTENANCE ON THE FANTASY FOOTBALL APP NOW!? — Andrew (@dcmclaughlin) September 8, 2014 
 
 I can’t even print the text I received from the commissioner of my ESPN league. 
 
 Patience is not a virtue of our current generation. Back when I started playing fantasy, you had to add up the scores yourself after checking the newspaper on Monday morning. Now, ESPN goes out for five minutes and it’s cause for mass hysteria. 
 
 Many people seemed angry at the “routine maintenance” claim, which made it seem as if ESPN just up and decided to check its servers during the most trafficked fantasy day of the year. That didn’t make sense. If they were going to check their servers, they would have done it at 1 p.m., when the games kicked off. (Kidding, aggrieved fantasy users.) [UPDATE: An ESPN spokesman explained that the “routine maintenance” message is the default message for tech errors.] 
 
 Thankfully, another error message was more forthright. 
 
 The ESPN servers came back on about 20 minutes after the problem began, thus saving President Obama the trouble of declaring a state of emergency in the entire United States.
– Last night's game between the Denver Broncos and Indianapolis Colts was anything but an ESPN fantasy: Rather, it turned into a social media nightmare after the network's fantasy football website and app went down—somewhat inconveniently during what USA Today Sports says was the "most trafficked fantasy day of the year." As social media users are wont to do, they went bonkers, alternately railing against the network and poking fun at inconsolable fans; Mashable has some good examples of the freakout. Adding insult to injury, an error message blamed the outage on "routine maintenance," though an ESPN rep tweeted that that was simply a "default message appearing due to [a] tech issue." The servers were back up in about 20 minutes, intergalactic crisis averted.