The Cubs won, so this kid got his tooth pulled with a football

What’s the craziest sports bet you’ve ever made? That you’d run down the street naked if your team won? That you’d eat an entire bucket of sliders if your team lost? Well, if you’ve ever made an insane sports bet like that, you feel the pain of this kid who now has one less tooth because the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.

Yes, there is a young man out there who bet his friends that if the Cubs won the World Series, they could pull out one of his teeth. If your first question is “WHY!?!!??” this video won’t shed much light on it for you.

So I have a lot of questions, but first, this: OWWWWW, AAAAUGGGHHH. That looks painful and ridiculous and not fun. Okay, questions. Why did he tell his friends that they could pull his tooth? Did it need to be pulled, and this was a more fun (???) or cheaper option than going to the dentist? Was this kid a Cubs fan, or was he perhaps a fan of the Cleveland Indians or the St. Louis Cardinals or the Chicago White Sox? Were his friends Cubs fans? (Someone was a Cubs fan, since there was a W flag present at the tooth pulling.) Why did they do it with a football? Was it for purely cinematic reasons, since the tooth flying out of his mouth looked like a special effect?

I have a million more questions, but they’re all some variation of “WHY DID YOU DO THIS!?” But, as that kid pointed out, he made that bet, and he made good on it. He’s learned the hard way that you shouldn’t make promises you don’t intend to keep, or at least he’s learned not to make insane bets based on sports teams.

Hopefully that kid put some ice in that empty tooth space and is doing fine. I also hope that he recovered the tooth and put it under his pillow, because the tooth fairy owes him a major reward for that ordeal.

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Liz Roscher is a writer for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email her at lizroscher@yahoo.com or follow her on twitter! Follow @lizroscher