Pink Toilet Seat, Pro Football and 41 Laguna Beach Homes

A pink toilet seat, pro football and 41 Laguna Beach homes - what's the connection?

My wife and I take the dogs for a walk every evening and last fall we kept seeing a pink toilet seat move from house to house in the neighborhood. Finally, we asked the question, "So what's with the pink toilet seat? Is this some form of punishment and how do we avoid getting this pink badge of honor?"

It turns out that it is indeed a punishment for losing the weekly pro football fantasy pool. Based on some obscure formula - something to do with passing yards, rushing yards, well kept yards, unkept yards and figures only a statistician would love. (I'm guessing alcohol played a part in this somewhere), host Steve Collings calculates the winner and loser each week and emails a spreadsheet to all participants.

Sometime during the evening the pink toilet seat will magically appear on the loser's fence, porch or garage for all to admire.

This year we were invited to join the fantasy pool and so far we have avoided the dubious distinction of losing. I must admit that we do have a twisted desire to wear the crown of the pink toilet seat for maybe just one week.