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A typical fantasy football league involves a winner receiving a hefty sum of money for winning and the runner-up and third place teams typically getting paid out along with the regular season winner in many leagues. It is also common for there to be a trophy for the winner.
Then there’s this league, the ‘All Pain, No Gain’ league where the winner receives nothing and everyone else faces punishments.
Is This The Worst Fantasy Football League of all Time?
I’ve survived some brutal fantasy football experiences in the past. It has been written about and shared extensively here at BroBible but I was in a ‘fly league’ where the winner had a few hundred dollars to buy a one-way ticket and the last place / toilet bowl finisher had to get on the plane, complete a challenge, and buy their own way home.
One year it culminated in a guy who is deathly afraid of clowns having to fly from NYC to a haunted clown motel in Nevada and spend the night.
I thought that was about as awful as fantasy football could be but this ‘All Pain, No Gain’ league from @knot.rob on TikTok sounds downright miserable. As the winner, he received absolutely nothing. On the contrary, he actually has to have one of the ‘losers’ camp out in his backyard for a few days, someone he barely knows.
Here is his retelling of the worst fantasy football league of the year:
@knot.rob Replying to @ethan_gant1 I won THE WORLD’S WORST fantasy football league and yea not even making money after all this stress really sucks haha thanks to everybody who kept up with the league and kept me entertained in the comment sections 😂 videos of the punishments coming soon #fantasyfootball #punishmentleague #funny #allpainnogain
For those that would rather read than watch, the 3rd place game winner has to spend 12 hours in Flora-Bama wearing a ski suit in July. The loser of the game has to bucket drum in the French Quarter of New Orleans until they earn $50 from donations on the street.
The 8th place punishment was someone having to spend their own money, fly to a WNBA game in another city, purchase a court side seat, watch the game without drinking, then immediately fly home without enjoying anything in the city at all. So it’s really just a financial burden if anything.
In the 5th/6th place game, the winner has to now audition for a role in a local play (‘Peter Pan’). After all that, I’m now curious what sort of Fantasy Football punishments you all would add to the list?
These are diabolical and honestly, I sort of fail to see the fun in competing in this league aside from if you are a content creator and looking to gain followers. Because these are true and proper punishments all while the winner receives nothing.