Fantasy Football Traditions
It happens every year: The weather starts to cool, the leaves start to change color, and all around the nation people gather to draft their very own fantasy football team. What are some of the specific rituals associated with your league? How do you decide who gets the first pick in the draft? How do you handle trades between league members? If your league gets together every season for a draft party, who hosts? It’s easy to get lost in stats about yards per carry and a quarterback’s touchdown—interception ratio, but a lot more goes into the running and operating of a successful fantasy football league than facts and figures.
Added to the mix of decisions that need to be made are also the questions of what to do once the season is over. After a long, hard-fought season of choosing who to start and who to sit on a week-to-week basis, one member of your league will be crowned the champion. While the pride that person will feel and the bragging rights they’ll have will go a long way towards sustaining them until the next season, what physical object might they also be granted to showcase their fantasy football superiority? Traditionally, trophies have been the go-to symbol of fantasy football domination. But here at Signature Coins, we think it’s well past time to give custom challenge coins a try.
The Downside to Fantasy Football Trophies
If you’ve been a part of a fantasy football league for awhile now, chances are you already have something that serves as a trophy or other award for the winner of the year. A lot of leagues employ the use of a single trophy to be distributed to the winner and kept year round at that person’s house. Perhaps the trophy is even engraved each year with the new winner’s name and the year of their victory. And while the pride of getting to take that trophy home might be great, there isn’t much said about some of the pratfalls of it.
For example, a trophy is an item with a very finite amount of space. Engraving something new onto it each year will inevitably lead to a point where there is no more space for future engravings. At that point, what choice do you have but to buy a new trophy? And what is done with the old trophy?
If a new trophy each year is the way your current league likes to go, there’s the concern of purchasing this large object each year. Much like the NFL itself, the best leagues will have some amount of parity; a different winner each year is ideal. However, a lot of leagues aren’t so lucky, and one person can often dominate year after year. With a yearly trophy model, those fantasy football awards can start to stack up and take up valuable space.
The different fantasy football trophy ideas out there are plentiful. Leagues have done everything from create their own object to serve as a trophy to buying a random object and giving it a name. While these creative solutions are interesting, one thing they can lack is the uniquely personal touch that can be found with custom coins.
Fantasy Football Custom Challenge Coins
It’s no secret that coins play a big role in football games; no contest can begin without a coin toss to determine opening possession. Why not bring some of that tradition into play in your own league with fantasy football custom coins as an award for ending the season on top?
Unlike trophies, challenge coins are small and easily portable. Challenge coins from Signature Coins are also fully customizable, meaning no two winners coins will ever need to be exactly alike. Give your fantasy league members something personal to cherish forever while also celebrating their win.
An added benefit of challenge coins as a reward for winning is how easy and inexpensive they are to ship. Not all fantasy football leagues have the benefit of members within close geographical proximity to each other. If a league has members spread out across the country, the cost and difficulty of shipping trophies from place to place (whether its one trophy traded amongst victors or a new trophy each year) can stack up. Shipping a single coin could be simple by comparison.
What about the member of your league that seems to win more often than the others? While those trophies are likely to stack up over time, custom challenge coins take up very little space. And with a variety of display options available, showing off your fantasy football dominance can be easy and still limit the amount of clutter in your space.
In addition to the other benefits, custom challenge coins offer a versatility that trophies can’t. Sure you can create a challenge coin for the winner of the league, but why stop there? One winner means there are an abundance of losers. Perhaps they can be forced to show their shame by getting custom engraving on their coins. Our coins can either be engraved at the time of creation, making each one unique in its own way, or a space can be left blank to allow for engraving at a later date (when the season ends, perhaps).
The coins themselves can also be used in a number of different ways. The military tradition surrounding the coins might be that a person caught without theirs has to buy a round a drinks for the group, but what if your fantasy football challenge coins could be collected throughout the years and used as trump cards to force, or even to veto, trades between members? The different ways in which these unique custom coins could come into play in your weekly fantasy football dealings are endless. 
Take Your Fantasy Football League into the Future
Trophies are cool. Having a big, hulking object you can lord over your friends is a source of pride. But the unspoken truth around fantasy football leagues is that it’s all been done before. Fantasy football custom challenge coins are an interesting way to try something new and set your league apart from all the other leagues in the country, especially if your fantasy league is based on a military base like this one.
With free next-day shipping, and an unprecedented 14-16 day production time, Signature Coins is the perfect place to kick off a new fantasy football tradition. Football season will be upon us before you know it; fill out the Signature Coins order form, or give us a call, to get your order started today and greet the new season in style.
