(S36) PT 1 - Just a Prank Bro

[Opera_Phantom]

Rookie hazing, such classic in the Arizona Outlaws locker room. I can't go into that much detail about what happens, as it would be giving it away to all of those who might join the AZ team later on, but it is just regular stuff happening really.
One of the most common ones is when rookie go into an open field with guns and reenact an old fashion duel, something you do not see a lot and it is sorely missed. But this one uses really live ammo, obviously, we do not play around, but the prank part is that the rookies think they have hollow bullets on the chamber. Backs to each other, 10 steps, then a quick turn around to try and hit each other. Imagine their surprises when eventually one connects and severely injures his teammate? It is all laughs and screaming but the rest of the roster. All for team spirit building, which is great.

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[Tesla]

Affiliate WSBL PT

[micool132]

Written option:

It's a new season starting in Colorado, and the Yetis have their fair share of new blood joining up the ranks. Who says rookies says some kind of initiation ritual. Obviously the Yetis are a pretty chill team and will never go too far in their rookie rituals, since it's all about fun and inclusion of the new members. So what we do is we ask the rookies to go to the stadium concessions and each go to a specific shop and order items that dont exist! The cashiers are on it too and wiil redirect the rookies to another food place making excuses like such item isn't done here or we are out of stock go to the one on the other side of the stadium. We ask them to go fetch pitchers of wololo, fried alligator wings, super waffle pancakes and such. One time, the team owner was also into it and a rookie complained to the owner that we would make them fetch silly stuff and the owner replied :"this is not silly it's a staple of our food stores here, search harder". usually after 2 hours we make them stop searching and give them hotdogs.

[AW13]

PBE PT

[3lewsers]

We pranked our new teammates put putting post-it notes all over their cars. I was able to procure thousands of those sticky note from my part-time job as we have been remote since COVID. Instead of them going to waste on a shelf somewhere, I decided it was a better use of them by handing stacks of them out to each of our vets and doing a harmless prank on the cars of our new teammates. It was a long and tedious project, and was especially hard trying to get it done during one of our practices. Thankfully, many of the Yellowknife Wraiths office staff were willing to take a few hours away from their boring desk work to have a little fun. The vets would individually pop out of practice to place some post-its themselves as well as enjoy the spectacle. When practice was over, the looks on the faces of the pranked was great as we all hopped in our cars watching them start the long and tedious task of removing them all.

[Troen]

It's the start of a new season, which means tons of new faces are on teams all around! So, there's only one reasonable way to welcome all these new faces to the team: Prank em. Write about what sort of hilarious prank you and the team have come up with to unleash on the new rookies!

The key to a good prank is finding something that the pranked people will also think is funny once they understand what's going on. Specifically, that's different than hazing which is more of a burden for the targets. And the best pranks are both funny and helpful. To that end, I've thought of two ideas that I think try for those goals. The first is to scatter the rookies' equipment around our training facility as a scavenger hunt in a way that introduces them to all the areas of the facility, the training staff, position coaches, etc. That's arguably less of a prank and more of an introduction task, so my other idea is to claim that we don't have any carts to help move the training field equipment out and so we have to do it all by hand for the first day. That works as weight training of a sort and we can coordinate with a coach to make the reveal funny, plus the entire team can help with the moving so it's not just a rookie hazing ritual.

[JuOSu]

PBE PT

[zaynzk]

SHL CW

[MMFLEX]

Ah, one of my favorite times of the season... Rookie hazing! We decided to go crazy with Octavio Perez. It was like a full week of little things. We filled his cleats with peanut butter, put a radio in his helmet and then blasted music. Man, he looked like a fool in front of coach, because coach wants no bullshit from rookies on the field. Then we took his phone and put through a fake notification that he'd been traded. The way he stormed into IceBear's office was hilarious. He's gonna be a fiery little thing. Can't wait to see what he can do for us. We didn't get Bean nearly as bad. Put a ton of salt in his water, filled his car with popcorn, and made him carry all our pads. You know, the easier stuff. Nonetheless, I can't wait for these dudes to get called up and make big plays for us.

[Arkz]

Now that Absolute Unit has entered his second season in the league, he finally gets to take advantage and prank the new rookies. But there's a lot of different ways that you can prank some rookies, and in Portland we do things a little differently compared to what the other teams around the league. Given that we are the Pythons, we clearly have a love of snakes in Portland, and we would have to work those into the prank somehow. So, we would partner with a local snake purveyor or sanctuary to acquire some snakes, preferably pythons because it is on brand and also they are not venomous (easier clean up). Next step would be to take those snakes and place one in each rookie locker, preferably hanging from one of the hooks, so that when the rookie opens the locker he gets a face full of ball python. The rookie gets a good scare, the snake got a field trip, and no permanent damage.