Crazy but true top prizes for Fantasy Football champions

A lot of time goes into determining how last place finishers in fantasy football should be dealt with, but just as much energy should be invested to figure out how to celebrate the champion. Navigating through three months worth of lineup decisions and roster manipulation to win a title is a huge accomplishment. We’ll take a look at some of the ways leagues honor their champion.

After a Super Bowl victory, the winning team hoists the Lombardi Trophy to bask in the glory of their accomplishment. There’s no reason why a fantasy football champion can’t raise a trophy that symbolizes the greatness they displayed. Leagues will often chip in to have one made to give to the ultimate victor.

In recent years, wrestling-style belts have become more popular as a way of showing which fantasy manager reigned supreme throughout the season. They tend to have a lot of glitz and glamour on them, and people like casually throwing them over their shoulder as a humble brag. Belts can be worn around the neighborhood or at various get-togethers.

Certain fantasy football leagues like to embrace the system that European soccer uses on an annual basis. It can be pretty dramatic for a champion to decide which managers will not be allowed to participate in the upcoming campaign. That person can elect to boot someone else out for fantasy or real-life reasons.

It can also be appealing for a fantasy football champion to select the type of hardship the last place finisher should endure. Rather than being put to a vote, the cellar-dweller manager is at the mercy of the champion, who may or may not want to rub the deplorable campaign in. Tying a champion’s prize with another team’s fate maintains interest in the league for a little while longer.

Draft season is brought in with much pomp and circumstance, and there’s really no reason why the fantasy campaign can’t end with a party too. It would be great to get everyone in the league together again with all the trimmings present for the champion. The league winner could be doused in champagne, Gatorade or confetti in front of everyone.

If the raucous gathering isn’t an option, perhaps a classy meal is a good way to cap off the season. The champion (perhaps with a spending limit) should be able to dine and imbibe to their heart’s content, while other present managers enjoy a tasty meal. The fantasy winner can arrive at the dinner with some sort of victory swag as well.

Fantasy football players just spent the last several months rooting real players on in real games. It would only make sense that the champion should get to experience NFL action first-hand after winning it all. Fantasy generally ends just before the regular season ends, which means a championship manager could catch the season finale, or a playoff game on the league’s dime.

Chances are the fantasy champion did a stellar job picking players during the draft, so it makes sense to immortalize the board where it all started. Laminating or framing the actual board is a snapshot in time of what the league thought about certain players, and a demonstration of the champion’s eye for talent.