My "Free Solo" Strip Superbowl Wager
Forward:
I recently read a summary of the movie *Free Solo*, which follows Alex Honnold's climb of El Capitan without ropes or any safety equipment. In my view, the summary missed the main point: his addiction to risk. Climbing a small wall with pads wouldn't satisfy this craving. For Honnold, the true challenge lies in climbing the 3000-foot vertical rock facing, relying solely on his strength, skills and abilities to avoid certain death. The thrill comes from making a big wager and emerging victorious. Even being victorious, he won nothing except the thrill of victory.
I get Alex to an extent, for I too have an addiction to risk, although I am too conservative to risk my life or large sums of money. Instead, I get a thrill of risking something else of great value, my clothing, all of it. I really don't want to be caught naked by others (for the most part), however the risk of that happening must absolutely be there. Like Alex, my naked humiliation is only protected by my skill and ability to successfully navigate a particular challenge. Should I fail, my consequences must be as harsh and unforgiving as it was for Alex Honold. In that scenario, my modesty and dignity must be shattered as I face naked humiliation while giving away all my secrets without getting anything in return.
Background:
To set the stage, I've had a fascination with risk and nudity since I was a pre-teen, however I didn't start exploring it until I was in middle and high school. In college, my exploration deepened. That's where my college friend Corinne, caught me in one of my "naked adventures". I tried to explain my situation away; however, she saw right through me since she too had a similar addiction to risk and nudity. We bonded over our shared addiction, finding creative ways to explore our addiction. Through this, I realized that her conviction was not as deep as mine.
One of the many ways we explored our addiction was to invent a striping game that was played in conjunction with a football game, either college or pro it didn't matter. We didn't do this every week there was a game, really over the four years we were in college, we played maybe eight times or so.
The times we did play were predicated on the game being a big, high interest game where the teams were evenly matched and Corinne and I choosing opposing teams. Here is where our skill and ability come in. Our state of dress is solely dependent on our ability to analyze the game, making accurate risk assessments and correctly predicting the winner.
Our newly invented game:
To start, we would select the number of clothing items that we would start the game with. Next, we would decide on the length and requirements of the post-game phase. This was the length of time, that women would have to wait, and/or dare that loser would have to perform before being reunited with lost clothing.
Events happening in the game would determine when Strip Points were assessed. Once a strip point was assessed, the loser of that strip point had sixty seconds to stand up and strip off the appropriate number of clothing items. The strip location had to be in full view of any audience present, and there is no running, hiding or covering up. Failure to meet these requirements would result in a strip penalty point worth one clothing item.
Special rule: Once a clothing item has been taken off, it may not be put back on until the post-game phase is over.
Strip points are scored in the following ways:
Quarter Strip Points -- Losing the quarter (I.e. score the least points in that quarter) is worth one strip point. If a quarter resulted in a tie, winning the next quarter would be worth two strip points. If that quarter also resulted in a tie, winning the following quarter would be worth three strip points etc. If needed, the final score would break any remaining quarter ties. In the end, there will be four "Quarter" strip points assessed. Overtime quarters are also worth one "Quarter" strip point
Game Strip Points - Two "Game" strip points assessed for losing the game, regardless of how the quarters went.
Penalty Strip Points -- One strip point will be assessed for flagrant rule violations. This rarely ever happens. Minor violations can add time to the post-game phase.
Point Spread Strip Points -- For every seven points your team is behind by, you are assessed a strip point. One caveat is that if your team is scored on and falls behind by a new multiple of seven, you have the next drive to close the gap. If the next drive fails to close the gap, you are assessed a "Point Spread" strip point. If later in the game your team reduces the gap by a new multiple of seven, you are awarded a token that can be used to offset a future "Point Spread" strip points. Quarter, Game and Penalty strip points cannot be offset by tokens. Under no circumstances can you put any clothing back on once it has been removed.