Each fall, along with the new National Football League (NFL) season, the Fantasy Football season starts. There are many sites on which one can create a league, including Yahoo, CBS Sports and ESPN. Having 10 people is recommended, but it can vary.
After the League is created, each person in the league gets to draft their teams, picking their favorite players from any NFL team. Once teams are drafted and the NFL season starts, players are matched up against a different person in their league each week. It adds excitement and personal investment into watching the NFL – seeing your players get the ball and hoping they can make a big play – but it can also be discouraging when a player on your team underperforms or suffers an injury.
To add stakes, many groups of friends, rather than a boring buy-in and a prize pool for the winner, choose instead to punish the person who does the worst. Here are The Wolf’s top punishment recommendations, in no order.
- The More-Than-Milk Mile
In this punishment, the loser has to run four laps around the track as fast as possible – but with a twist. At the start of each lap, the runner has to drink a new, specially-chosen drink. The Wolf recommends that before the first lap, the runner should go with the unquestioned classic of the mile: milk. As they speed down the backstretch of the first lap, clutching their stomach, a sweet refreshment will be just the thing your friend desires: lemonade! To spice things up for the third lap, a fun combo of two parts hot sauce and one part water should do the trick. And, last but not least, for a finish they will never forget, eight packets of soy sauce. Even better, make the two people in last place race, and the loser has to do another punishment – perhaps one from below.
- The Common Crawl
This is an absolute classic that will create not just a traumatic memory but a video the loser can never outlive. In this punishment, the loser must complete four full laps (door to door) of the commons during lunch time – crawling on all fours.
- Thrift Shop Extravaganza
The embarrassment includes the loser getting dressed up for the school week by the other competitors. The items do have to be wearable to school, but perhaps they could tiptoe into the gray area, or as we call it here at The Wolf, the fun zone. This could be anywhere from skin-tight yoga pants to wild graphic tees. Hopefully, the loose dress code will grant maximum embarrassment to the loser.
- Fun trip to the mall (Two-person punishment)
In this punishment, one person must walk around with a dog ear prop for 30 minutes, while the other holds the leash – remember to take turns! Extra points for every loud bark and verbal scolding of “Bad Boy” in response.
- Instagram story
While broad, perhaps that is the beauty. Maybe your friend is “feeling very cute” that day, and wants to post a selfie. Or, on the other hand, is feeling politically extreme, and has a few things to say about the results of the election. Whatever your mind can create now has a vessel to come to fruition: your friend’s social media account.
