Members of the Jets football team including Zach Wilson (L) attend the Islanders game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game Four of the First Round of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Nassau Coliseum on May 22, 2021. Credit: Getty Images/Bruce Bennett
Dan Feeney grew up near Chicago, went to college at Indiana and most recently played for the Chargers.
But on Saturday, he became an honorary Long Islander – and he just might be a meme the Islanders take with them on the road to bigger and better playoff things ahead.
On a wild afternoon at Nassau Coliseum, the recently signed Jets offensive lineman, standing beside rookie quarterback Zach Wilson, spoke for most of the building and beyond in the second period when he chugged a (presumably adult) beverage, slammed the container against his mullet-coiffed head and let out an epic cheer – all of it captured on national television.