The NFL season has kicked off and over 50 million people dove into competing in a fantasy football league with friends or family. To make the league more fun and competitive, consider adding a punishment for the player who finishes in last place. These 10 punishments would be great additions to your fantasy football league.
- Karaoke
Karaoke provides a great way to embarrass the person who comes in last in the league. One way to do this punishment is to find a local karaoke place and invite the whole league to cheer on the loser as they sing in front of a crowd. Making the loser sing in front of people is a great motivation to win games in a fantasy league.
- Buy the league dinner
The magnitude of the punishment depends on how many players compete in the league. If there are a lot of players, the person in last place could end up spending hundreds of dollars. The threat of spending money surely makes your league way more competitive.
- Hair dye
Making the loser dye their hair because of a fantasy league is not just embarrassing; it affects your life. The league could make a rule about how long they must keep their hair dyed and what color they can change it to. The league can decide to make them dye their hair pink for a month and that’s why this might be the most motivating punishment on this list because of the way it can affect real life.
- Read the entire dictionary
This punishment could be very boring because it takes up time. You could make this punishment more fun by making the loser read the dictionary and make a presentation on their top 10 favorite words. This punishment, though not as embarrassing as the others, would be very time-consuming for the player with the worst team.
- Get ready with me TikTok
Making the person in last place do a “Get ready with me” TikTok is an embarrassing punishment that everyone can see. The loser has to do a makeup tutorial or get ready with me, where they act like an influencer and post it on their personal TikTok account. This punishment becomes funniest when a man loses, serving as a highly motivating consequence in an all-guys league.
- Take a stuffed animal on a date
This punishment is definitely the most public and embarrassing on the list and would be an awful punishment to do if you lost your league. This punishment would require the loser to buy a stuffed animal, a size that the league decides, so a very big stuffed animal would make the punishment worse. They must take the stuffed animal to a restaurant and act like they are actually on a date until they finish their meal and pay. It’s a fun punishment because the league members decide on things like the size of the stuffed animal, how long they must stay at the date for, and what restaurant they go to.
- Wear a costume to school or work
Another embarrassing punishment, wearing a costume to school or work. The punishment becomes very embarrassing when it’s around people you actually know. Many variables are in this punishment, like what costume, what day they wear it, and you could even add a “I stink at fantasy football” sign to the punishment.
- Take an SAT
This punishment certainly ranks among the most boring and dreadful ways to spend a Saturday, especially since most SAT tests occur on that day. The league could make this punishment worse by making the person in last place do the punishment on a college football playoff Saturday, or they could make the loser take the SAT until they get a certain score.
- Milk mile
The Milk mile probably ranks as the most popular punishment over the past few years and for good reason. A milk mile is when the loser is forced to run a mile and drink half a gallon of milk every quarter mile. Many losers throw up or get sick. It’s the most physically painful punishment and a solid motivator to do good in the league.
- 24 hours in IHOP
Making the player with the worst team sit in an IHOP for 24 hours, an elite punishment that would make them go insane. This punishment is the best because the loser can have a way to get out of spending the full 24 hours in IHOP by eating pancakes to reduce their time. Every pancake they eat equals 30 minutes off the time they must spend in the IHOP, so they would need to eat 48 pancakes to completely erase their time, but it would probably take a couple of hours to eat that many pancakes. The punishment becomes so good because the loser can get out, but they are still trapped in the IHOP for a healthy amount of time. The league could make this punishment more fun by making them spend their day in IHOP on a playoff Sunday or making the loser buy them all breakfast to kick off the punishment.
