This team is doing something to this town.
We don’t know many of the new players, and we don’t know many of the new rules, but the BattleHawks of the XFL are actually part of St. Louis sports culture right now — and that wasn’t guaranteed when they announced this XFL thing would be dropped into our town.
On a day that seldom exists, in a league that didn’t exist to many of us until a few weeks ago, there were 27,527 fans at Saturday’s game at the Dome at America’s Center. It was the third-biggest crowd in the XFL this season.