The XFL is again. After the league was shut down throughout 2020, on the top of the pandemic, the XFL returned to the sphere this week beneath new possession. The new iteration of the league is owned by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Dany Garcia, and a RedBird Capital, who bought the league from Vince McMahon for simply $15M.
While the league may be again, its biggest custom isn’t.
The DC Defenders’ beer snake.
Back in 2020 earlier than the XFL suspended play on account of COVID, the Defenders have been 3-2, tied for first place within the XFL’s East Division. And Audi Field, the place the Defenders performed their houses video games, was rocking for each contest. With the principle characteristic of every recreation a feat of fan engineering.
The beer snake:
Unfortunately, the beer snake has not made it to the brand new model of the XFL. The Defenders are again, however at their residence opener tonight towards the Seattle Sea Dragons, efforts to duplicate the beer snake days of glory have been met by resistance from safety:
The followers, nonetheless, revolted. And threw lemons on the sphere:
That’s proper, lemons:
Following the lemons, the chants for “beer snake” rang all through Audi Field, and #FreeTheSnake started to pattern on social media:
ESPN’s Stormy Buonantony, working hte sideline for the ESPN broadcast of the sport, went into the tip zone to talk with the followers:
“But if you don’t give us beer snake, we’re gonna continue to give you lemons here.”
Just completely unimaginable.
Free the snake.