The first weekend of the XFL reboot season had a little bit of everything, including a player – Houston Roughnecks wide receiver Kahlil Lewis – actually booting on the field before a one-point conversion.
His upchuck immediately went viral because it’s not every day that you see a football player throwing up all over the place while waiting for the ball to be snapped.
So what led to Lewis having to lose his lunch? He had a great explanation for it on Tuesday, telling ESPN it was the perfect storm of being too excited after a teammate’s touchdown and having just slugged down a whole Gatorade.
“Oh, my gosh, everybody keeps hitting me up about that,” Lewis said. “I ran down the field when Cam scored and I was screaming. I caught myself screaming too hard. I was like, ‘Oh, calm down,’ but it was already coming back up.
“So I was just trying to hold it in. That’s why it all came out at once.”
After the video went viral, Lewis started hearing from friends and people sending GIFs from the video, as well the vomiting emoji. In those texts and messages, he has heard the whole gamut of reasons for why he vomited. He wanted to set the record straight.
“I was just too excited,” Lewis said. “I was screaming, and I had just chugged a whole Gatorade. It came up. That is all. It wasn’t nerves. None of that, out of shape. Nothing everybody’s been coming to me with; it’s none of that at all.”
There ya go, kids. Be careful chugging Gatorade because you never know when it’s going to come back up in a hurry.
