The Beer Snake Steals the Show in XFL Week 5

We're now officially halfway through the 2020 XFL season. This week, it's the DC Beer Snake that is stealing the headlines.

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Man…it’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through the 2020 XFL season. I’m just stoked that we made it this far, guys. After the catastrophic failure that was the AAF a year ago, I’m just happy to see that the XFL is still ticking. Not just that it’s ticking, but that it’s still producing some quality football and branding itself in a way that is just plain fun. Take this week’s beer snake, for instance…

Would the noted stick-in-the-mud NFL ever condone something like this?! Hell no. But, thankfully, this is the XFL, and the beer snake is just as much a part of the core of this brand as anything else. I love it. You go to an XFL game and you know there’s going to be this crazy kind of community. No one else has this. The XFL is like the Bills Mafia of professional organized sports and I am one million percent here for it.

Even XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck got in on the action:

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The New York Guardians slaughtered the Dallas Renegades in a game between two teams that seem a little difficult to figure out. The Guardians keep pace in the XFL East, where they’re tied with the St. Louis BattleHawks and D.C. Defenders atop the division at 32. The Renegades are now tied with the electric Los Angeles Wildcats at 2-3 for 2nd in the XFL West, but both are three games behind the Houston Roughnecks. Are the Guardians actually good? Are the Renegades actually bad? Stay tuned, folks.

The Roughnecks improve to 5-0 after beating the feisty Seattle Dragons, who entered the game as 11-point underdogs but jumped out to an early lead. P.J. Walker has to be the XFL MVP at this point, right? The connection between he and Cam Phillips has been damn near unstoppable. Against the Dragons, Phillips had 122 yards and two touchdowns.

In that Battlehawks-Defenders game, the Defenders broke a huge slump, and popped right back to the top of the XFL East in the process. Likely fueled by beer snake. The Defenders made the switch at quarterback from Cardale Jones, who at the beginning of the season looked like a contender for league MVP, to Tyree Jackson and it paid off. After the big win, the Defenders are back in the hunt.

The Tampa Bay Vipers and Wildcats lit it up in the XFL’s first “after dark” game. It turned out to be an instant classic with each team going back and forth putting points on the board. It became the highest scoring game in XFL history in the process, as the teams combined for 75 points. Ultimately, the Vipers couldn’t mount the comeback they needed. Seems like that’s happened quite a bit for the Vipers in this inaugural season. I still don’t think they’re as bad as their 1-4 record would indicate, but at this point, they’ve got to start getting wins or they can forget about a playoff berth.

The good news? The rest of the XFL East is a log jam at 3-2. So, the Vipers are only two games behind with five games to go. It could happen. Just saying.

WEEK 5 XFL SCORES

  • Houston Roughnecks 32, Seattle Dragons 23
  • Dallas Renegades 12, New York Guardians 30
  • DC Defenders 15, St. Louis BattleHawks 9
  • Los Angeles Wildcats 41, Tampa Bay Vipers 34

CURRENT XFL POWER RANKINGS

  1. Houston Roughnecks (5-0)
  2. St. Louis Battlehawks (3-2)
  3. DC Defenders (3-2)
  4. New York Guardians (3-2)
  5. Los Angeles Wildcats (2-3)
  6. Dallas Renegades (2-3)
  7. Tampa Bay Vipers (1-4)
  8. Seattle Dragons (1-4)

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