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Dale Earnhardt Jr Tribute Lauded By WWE Hall Of Famer as Decades-Old Fanboy In Junior Takes Centerstage

Published 10/25/2022, 11:06 AM EDT

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Dale Earnhardt Jr is a NASCAR legend. And his name in the Hall of Fame confirms that. Recently, we saw a crossover between the NASCAR legend with another legend from WWE. During the WWE Monday Night Raw, NASCAR drivers Corey LaJoie and Dale Earnhardt Jr attended the wrestling event from the front row. And flaunting his cool WWE gear, Earnhardt Jr sported a piece of Stone Cold merchandise.

Earnhardt raised hell among the crowds with his ‘Arrive. Raise Hell. Leave’ T-shirt. And who else were these words alluding to other than Steve Austin? Moreover, the T-shirt led Earnhardt to witness his own fan moment on Twitter!

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Seeing this post on Twitter, the WWE Champion, and Hall of Fame inductee Steve Austin gave a shout-out to his celebrity fan. Glad to see the motorsports athlete enjoying the wrestling match, Austin wrote; “Dale Yeah!!”

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Apart from wrestling, and of course stock car racing, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a football fanatic. And it’s possible that he likes the sport a tad bit more than NASCAR.

Here is how Dale Earnhardt Jr became a Football fan

In a recent interview with Yahoo Sports, Dale Earnhardt Jr revealed that he has been a football fantasy fanatic for quite some time now. When Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Analyst, Matt Harmon asked Earnhardt how he got into it, Earnhardt replied, “Yeah, we’ve got a league. It’s called the basement league.”

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“The reason why we call it the Basement League is because we do all the drafts at my house in my basement. I have a little bar downstairs. And that’s just why we call it the Basement League. But it’s been around for at least 15 years.”

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Furthermore, the two-time Daytona 500 winner revealed that he is a big Washington Commanders fan. However, because of this, he only watched the team’s matches. But by playing the fantasy league, he is now able to enjoy the sport more than ever.

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He said; “So, when I started playing fantasy, man, I’m watching other teams. I’m learning about other players. I know all of these things about the game that I paid no attention to before. I was only probably tapping into about 10% of the enjoyment of the game until I played fantasy.”

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Devyani Sharma

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Devyani Sharma is a NASCAR Author at EssentiallySports. Having completed her postgrad in English Literature, she has worked as a content writer for a while now. With over three years of experience in the field and hundreds of articles published on the web, Devyani has now associated with EssentiallySports to start her journey in the world of sports journalism.
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Ranvijay Singh