What is the harm of fantasy games? Someone might win a few bucks?
The same harm that applies to any other form of gambling.
The spread is in place to make it more of a 50/50 shot - a game of chance.
How does that make it a game of chance? If anything, it emphasizes in-depth knowledge; you don't need to know anything about football to accurately pick the Patriots over the Titans, but you do need to know about football to accurately pick the Patriots -20 over the Titans.
But even if what you are saying were true: are you claiming that betting on the outcome of games is a "contest of skill" (and not "gambling") as long as there is no point spread?
Meanwhile, betting the spread is legal in Vegas. Horse racing is LEGAL in lots of places. But playing fantasy football is evil?
No one said anything about gambling being
evil. Internet poker isn't
evil, but it's banned in the United States.