Cheboygan athlete completes Milk Mile as fantasy football punishment
Cheboygan's Wyatt Wiltfong completed a Milk Mile as a fantasy football punishment, drinking a gallon of milk while running four laps.
CHEBOYGAN – Wyatt Wiltfong wanted a big crowd – and he got one. Except this wasn’t a football game for Wiltfong, who plays for the Cheboygan Chiefs . It was all because of a fantasy football team gone wrong.
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m. event on Friday, May 1. But what Wiltfong had to his advantage was a solid crowd of supporters that willed him on from the first lap until the finish line.
With Cheboygan High School athletic director Jason Friday using the Rocky theme as inspiration for Wiltfong from the press box, the football player was the one standing in the end. “You have to keep on doing it,” Wiltfong said. “I had to do it or else.