Kahlil Lewis grabbed attention over the weekend not for his performance in the game, but for being caught by millions of viewers vomiting on the field just before a play.
Before the team executed a one-point conversion, viewers watching the FOX broadcast witnessed Houston Roughnecks wide receiver, Kahlil Lewis, vomiting.
He elaborated on that moment in an interview with ESPN.
“Oh my gosh, everybody keeps hitting me up about that,” he 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.”
“I was just too excited. I was screaming, and I had just chugged a whole Gatorade. It came up. That is all,” he told Sarah Barshop of ESPN. “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.”
During the game, Lewis achieved five catches for 45 yards and scored a touchdown.
Teammate and fellow wide receiver Sammie Coates mentioned that it was “the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. It was pretty funny, though. … We’ve made fun of him for a couple days now.”
The Roughnecks displayed an impressive performance in the first week by defeating the Los Angeles Wildcats 37-17.
