Last year some Invisible Children staff embarked on the world of Fantasy Football. We formed a league, drafted players, competed against each other, and incessantly discussed strategy, trades, wins, loses, and yardage until everyone around us wanted to punch us in the face. At the end of the season, all participants acknowledged that it was way more stressful than we bargained for…but that apparently isn’t stopping us from doing it all over again.

The 2013-14 football season has kicked off and our IC League has brought with it all the joy, frustration, and humiliation that we remember. Joy: Winning, scoring, beating the person who talked trash in your ear all week. Frustration: Your quarterback throwing more interceptions than touchdowns, your defense forgetting how to defend, the players on your bench earning more points than the players you actually started. Humiliation: The shirt.

Oh, the shirt. Similar to last year, the participant who scores the lowest amount of points each week has to wear a very ugly & embarrassing shirt all day on Tuesday (following Monday Night Football). The loser must take a photo wearing it and post it on all of their social networks. Last year, it was a pug shirt. This year, it’s a guinea pig.

(L-R): Chadwick modeled the tee; Juan-David as the first week's loser premiered the shirt at staff meeting; Steve in my office embracing his loss.

(L-R): Chadwick (our league commissioner) modeling the tee; Juan-David as the first week’s loser premiering the shirt at staff meeting; Steve in my office embracing his loss.

So to sum it all up: Ten members of our staff spend Thursday nights, all day Sunday, and Monday nights watching football. We refresh our mobile devices every 30 seconds to view our scores on our NFL app. We yell at the TV. And each other. The guinea pig is the new pug.

And – quite possibly the most exciting facet of our league – our CEO Ben Keesey has agreed to wear the shirt if he is the week’s loser (opposed to last year when he opted out of the T-shirt fun since he hasn’t worn a T-shirt to work ever in his life). Stay tuned to our social networks for the proof, people.

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