Man attempts 'Waffle House Challenge' as fantasy football punishment
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This is not the breakfast of champions.
College sports broadcaster Cyrus Wittig was recently forced to undertake the “Waffle House Challenge," which involves sitting in a Waffle House for 24 hours, after losing his fantasy football league.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The 24-hour challenge ended 12 hours early after the man managed to consume 12 waffles. (iStock)
However, instead of taking his punishment in silence, Wittig decided to provide play-by-play tweets while serving his penance on Sunday. The hilarious thread has since received nearly 65,000 "likes" — and it may make you swear off waffles for a while.
Wittig starts by explaining the rules of his punishment: He has to stay inside the Arkansas Waffle House for 24 hours — but for every waffle he eats, an hour will “be subtracted from [his] sentence.”
The man starts by giving himself an hour “to settle in and work up an appetite” before ordering six waffles.
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At 11:09 a.m., Wittig is off and running. He arrived at the establishment around 9 a.m., according to his tweet.
Though Wittig had a strategy at how he was going to get the waffles down — no butter and only “miniscule dipping” in syrup — the large and fluffy waffles quickly get the better of him. After three waffles, Wittig tweets, “oh my god I’m going to die” and that was roughly only a half-hour into his first order.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}During the challenge, Wittig did learn some important lessons — like cold waffles aren’t great, and that eating them is harder than it looks.
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He also made sure to explain that no one was eating the waffles for him.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}And that the Waffle House crew was supportive of his endeavor.
Dozens of tweets and 12 waffles later, Wittig managed to complete his punishment and return to his home – where he said he didn’t sleep, though that was apparently because of his drink choice, and not the massive amount of carbs in his stomach.
But Wittig’s fans – of which he gained quite a few – shouldn’t feel bad for him, as he shared on Twitter that the punishment was his own idea.
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And, fortunately, it seems to not have ruined his appetite for Waffle House.
Wittig, though, may be waffling about using the challenge as the punishment for next season.