My First Week At Barstool Sports Was Absolute CHAOS!

I walked into the office on Tuesday(the day of the Mintzy vs. Klemmer pro day) with a very empty stomach and two heads of lettuce. You may be wondering what the two heads of lettuce were for? Those two heads of lettuce were going to be pivotal in my preparation for the “Barstool After Dark” stream later that night, the Doug Doug Challenge. Big Cat, Tate, Max and I were doing some research on what competitive eaters do the day before and the day of their being eating contests, majority said drinking lots of water or eating things that are very water dense. As I’m walking to put the lettuce in the office fridge Big Cat asks me to accompany my new coworker spider in the reffing of the Mintzy vs. Klemmer pro day which I obviously said yes to. The pro day went great, there wasn’t many complaints with the refs and it was a bonus that I was able to get a front row seat to watch our company’s two greatest athletes as they compete in 21 events to prove superiority over one another.

But now it was time to really lock in for every fat kids dream and that is to eat as much fast food as humanly possible. As a former D1 offensive lineman I thought this would be a breeze and I would have an absolute blast doing it(boy was I sadly mistaken). I will say it was an absolute blast going to battle with the boys but the stomach was doing absolute somersaults. After getting through 13 restaurants and the world record was in our sights I knew that I was going to have to contribute more than I was in order for that world record to be ours. I had to put down a 32 oz mango refresher from Dunkin Donuts and a large Diet Coke from White Castle, it was time to LOCK IN. I did manage to get down both the drinks but with every bump and turn in the car it was all about to come flying out of the gullet. We got the last order from Canes and it was all about how Tate wanted to leave his legacy, he said he was going to be able to attack this last place after everyone else tapped out, it was Tate vs. 3 tenders and fries. Fast forward to when we parked in a random parking lot(feel sorry for the people that had to park there the next day) and it was time for Tate to tackle the box combo from canes. Big Cat a.k.a “The Guzzler” took it upon himself to try and drink the lemonade from canes(this was a bad idea). Right when his lips touched the straw he started dry heaving, that is all I needed to hear to start a chain reaction of projectile vomiting that was honestly the most I’ve ever puked in my life. 

This was the most liberating and freeing feeling I’ve felt in a while, with all your boys puking your guts out in a random parking lot at 12 AM on a Wednesday on my first week of working for barstool is something I will remember forever. 

I know what you’re thinking… how could it get more chaotic than that? Welp, fast forward to Friday - Brandon Walker’s funeral. If you watched The Yak on Friday you must have some clue of what happened but let me give you my perspective. It was not only Brandon’s funeral but the funeral of two coworkers relationship. It was cool to sit back and just watch everything unfold as a newbie in the office not being involved in office drama. It was truly incredible to watch!

All in all, the word “Chaos” would be a great word to describe my first week working at Barstool and I am so happy to be here!