I have an embarrasing admission to make

[Ultra Peanut]

The XFL was FUN. The bitterly cold home opener against Las Vegas, the awesome comeback against Chicago (shame it was only the NBC B-game that week) in which Druck replaced the awful Crandell and carried the team on his back to victory, the last game against LA, hoping against hope that things would work out to get Memphis into the playoffs but still enjoying the win and looking forward to next season even if things didn't work out... sigh.

When I got season tickets, I initially scoffed, but once I experienced it, I grew to downright love it.

If it hadn't been run (into the ground) by utter morons, it could have been a viable league and would have survived, at least for more than one damn season. The product on the field was far better than it got credit for, but since everyone and their grandmother was blasting the league for a year before it began, it never really got a chance.