This was the error message seen by many mobile users who tried to check the scores of their Week 1 games. 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. 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. 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. How I feel about the @espn fantasy football app & site being down.
– 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.