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- The Washington Football Team announced a new partnership with Lay’s Chips earlier this week.
- It involved potatoes grown from FedEx Field, which prompted reminders of how cursed the stadium has been over the last decade.
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FedEx Field is notorious for being one of the worst stadiums and playing surfaces in football, if not all of sports. Thus, when the Washington Football Team announced a new field-inspired promotion earlier this week, it was open season for football fans.
On Tuesday, the WFT shared that it partnered with Lay’s Chips to grow potatoes in fields mixed with the grounds from FedEx Field. The potatoes, obviously, were later turned into chips.
Lay’s grew potatoes in fields mixed with the grounds from @FedExField!
Visit @LAYS to find out how you can win this limited edition bag‼️ pic.twitter.com/G0oUPSaslX
— Washington Commanders (@Commanders) January 11, 2022
Although it is unclear how exactly FedEx Field’s grounds were used to grow the potatoes, the chips are now cursed.
Just like the field.
A graphic has recently gone viral that shows the horrible things that have happened at FedEx field over the course of the last decade.
This piece of real estate gotta be the most cursed place in the entire NFL pic.twitter.com/IKxGvAdrA4
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) January 12, 2022
The series of unfortunate events and serious injuries at FedEx Field began just over 10 years ago. Here is a timeline:
- 2011: Adrian Peterson was tackled awkwardly at the line of scrimmage and tore his ACL.
- 2013: Robert Griffin III got caught on the turf and tore both his ACL and LCL.
- 2018: Alex Smith suffers a horrific leg injury and nearly has it amputated.
- 2020: Joe Burrow has a defender land awkwardly on his lower body and tears ligaments.
- 2020: Kyle Allen has his leg buckle under him and suffers severe ankle injury.
- 2021: Ryan Fitzpatrick is tackled into the ground and is placed on IR with season-ending hip injury.
- 2021: Chase Young tears ACL with non-contact injury.
- 2022: Jalen Hurts is nearly crushed under collapsed railing that causes fans to fall from stands.
In addition to the injuries and near-injuries, a pipe burst earlier this year and caused sewage to spill on fans. And, to top things off, scissors were found on the field during the game in December.
Needless to say, FedEx Field is cursed.
Thus, when the team posted its partnership with Lay’s, football fans reacted accordingly.
Trust me you don’t want an acl/mcl tear
— DigitallyRare.eth (@DigitalyRare) January 11, 2022
When somebody bites into that pair of scissors….. oooweee
— LP Cruz 🇩🇴 (@SDQFlightCrew) January 12, 2022
And this is how the potatoes were watered… pic.twitter.com/Dz7fDmmaBU
— Brian Chesnick (@bchesnick19) January 12, 2022
Which flavor acl, mcl, fibula, or tibia? 🦴
— Digitally Rare (@DigitalyRare) January 11, 2022
If you want chips that will devour your ACL, eat these!
— Formerly Redskins Rant (@ImRantBurgundy) January 11, 2022
Will I tear my acl if I eat them?
— Blake Daniels (@BKDizz) January 11, 2022
Redskins while owned by Jack Kent Cooke: 4 Super Bowl appearances & 3 titles.
Washington while owned by Dan Snyder: 0 NFC championship game appearances & a few bags of FedEx Field potato chips.
— Tom Sileo (@TSileo) January 11, 2022
Nah if you eat that you’re tearing your ACL
— Joshua (@harber1202) January 11, 2022
LOL! “Grown in Glory,” lol. At least they had easy to access to fertilization with the bursting sewage pipes. “Grown in futility. The taste of failure!”
— Ingus Magillicutti (@IMagillicutti) January 11, 2022
Perhaps these chips don’t need to make it to market. We don’t need anymore torn ACLs.