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This poor guy served his fantasy-football punishment at Royals-Red Sox game

A fan lost a fantasy football league and let the world know it at the Royals-Red Sox game.
A fan lost a fantasy football league and let the world know it at the Royals-Red Sox game.

Is it better to win your fantasy football league or just not finish in last place?

Winning means a chance to brag about your football prowess with friends and often some coin in your pocket. That’s great, but simply avoiding the last-place punishment is also pretty wonderful.

You’ve heard of the Waffle House challenge, but WNBA star Caitlin Clark detailed an even more devious punishment in her fantasy football league while on the New Heights podcast.

It’s a 17-hour bus ride in which the person couldn’t use their phone.

“You literally just have to sit there,” Clark told the Kelce brothers. “You had to take your phone because you had to livestream the whole thing on Instagram to make sure you didn’t do anything.”

One fantasy football player was given a new punishment, and it took place in Kansas City. Cameras caught this poor fellow in the upper deck at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday night.

No, watching the underachieving Royals and Red Sox play wasn’t the punishment. The fan wore an orange NASA flight suit and had these words spelled out on the seats around him: “I stink at fantasy football.”

The NESN cameras shared this clip of the fan, who went viral for the stunt as more than a million people on social media saw him

This story was originally published May 20, 2026 at 8:44 AM.

Pete Grathoff
The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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