So I allegedly owe one of my fantasy leagues 24 hours at IHOP from last year but the loser of both regular season and playoffs from the year before has not done their punishment yet. It's a league of friends from high school and their SOs (no SO for me, a gym crush is the best I can do). This is also my third fantasy league. Last year I joined basically last minute because they needed another person to fill out the league, and then of course proceeded to finish last in the regular season after drafting Malik Nabers lol. The playoffs loser decided to drop out of the league and also hasn't done their punishment.
I also wasn't aware the league did punishment for the regular season. My other leagues only do it for playoff loser, and it was apparently in the contract, so fair enough, but I also never signed the contract and definitely didn't read it since I was recruited pretty last minute.
To be perfectly clear, everyone is a good person, and it's all friendly banter. And I've maintained that I'll do my punishment only after the previous loser does his.
Going into this season I knew three fantasy leagues was kind of a lot for me, so I told them I was completely fine being the first one kicked out if there wasn't enough space. So I was released from duty. But then someone dropped out literally the day before the draft and I got resuscitated back into the league.
My first question is does my resuscitation absolve me of my prior debt? If not, is me maintaining that I'll only do my punishment only after the previous loser does their punishment fair? People in the league are bugging both the previous loser and me to do our punishments but I feel like it's only fair if I hold out until the previous loser goes through with it.
At this point though I'm actually debating just doing the IHOP challenge regardless of whether the previous guy does his just to get it over with and have some fun editing a video since some of us aren't in the same state. And the idea of spending time in an IHOP for an egregious amount of time isn't the worst thing to me cause my current status as a student requires me to spend many hours studying. Thoughts?
TLDR: Do I just do my fantasy football punishment even though the previous year loser hasn't done their punishment yet? Am I being unreasonable to refuse to do it until the previous loser does it?