It's time, Ezekiel Elliott, for an STL man to face a fact: You were drafted by the dark side.

Alton native Elliott starred in football at John Burroughs School before doing the same at Ohio State. On Wednesday, he cheered for his hometown hockey Blues.

But Elliott, drafted at No. 4 by the Dallas Cowboys, forgot (we'll say) that the Blues were facing the Dallas Stars in a Game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs — which the Blues won in a massively dominating manner.

So when Elliott tweeted this ...

... he should have expected to get some guff from Texans, though he may not have been quite prepared for ...

But Elliott, whose keen intellect and sharp wit may survive even a Red River crossing, joked that he was just supporting his family, as in goalie Brian Elliott.

Elliott: Game, set, match.

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