Taken.
That's former Battlehawk Jordan Ta'amu.
Funny story. STL has embraced the Battlehawks. Sure, some of it is bitterness over Stan Kroenke.
But don't be fooled, a good chunk of it is, for XFL 2.0, the assigned team president in STL was spectacular and really created an environment where fans felt some 'ownership' of the team. We fear losing that with the USFL merger. He asked what people wanted. They said "a marching band". He said they couldn't have one for the game, but they hired high school bands to lead people over to the stadium from the tailgates. People said they wanted more access to the players. So, now, the players show up for a game....meet in the locker room, get on a bus in the underground parking....literally drive around the block and get out for a Hawk Walk back into the stadium.
Anyway, I was in a Dick's Sporting Goods with my youngest son buying some gear, the first round of gear was limited and sold out right away. There was probably 20 people rifling through stuff when we were there. Looked like a bomb had gone off. At one point, I remarked to a family (mom, dad, older teen daughter)...."Can you believe this? For a non NFL team?"
The mom responded with "Yes, it's really great. We came all the way from Hawaii."
And I said "Hawaii? That's crazy."
And then she says "Well, our son does play."
And then, as the words are coming out of my mouth...."Oh, who is your son?"
I'm concurrently putting together in my mind the fact that really the only 'star' of the team who is really one of the few names on the team we even knew at that point was from Hawaii.
Yah, I felt kinda stupid.
