When Lee Sanderlin made his fantasy football picks, he likely never could have foreseen that Carson Wentz, then-quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, would struggle, eventually be benched and traded to the Colts, , landing Sanderlin in last place in his fantasy football tournament.
Still, nearly six months after the NFL regular season concluded, the reporter for the Clarion Ledger, part of the USA TODAY Network, walked into a Brandon, Miss. Waffle House just after 4 p.m. Central Time to serve his punishment for coming in last: spending 24 hours in the iconic restaurant.
"Every waffle I eat shaves an hour off the clock," Sanderlin said in his first tweet in a thread which would eventually go viral.