XFL to make a comeback
 

HE HATE ME!!!!!!!!

https://deadspin.com/vince-mcmahon-m...xfl-1821354064

Looks like a landing spot for Kap and Manzy.

They will get squished like a bug just like last time.....

NFL needs a minor league anyway.

Doomed to fail, again

You can't trust the officiating to call a game even and fair.


Does the above comment pertain to the NFL or XFL?

Can't wait to see the snowflakes cry.

I hope it succeeds. The NFL needs a kick in the pants.

both lol

As long as everyone is properly standing for the anthem, this thing can't help but be a massive hit.

You are just a ray of sunshine on life Nellie. I have a couple Christmas Parties coming up and you are the epitome of the "oh God, it's here" when you walk through the door person.

"Oh, Hello Cosmo!!! Your scowl has grown even more resenting than last year! Merry Christmas! Now you'll have to excuse me while I go try to make pleasant conversation with the dog."

http://www.findadeath.com/DDT/images...nellie_300.jpg

^snowflake is easily triggered. Sorry about your condition. Try some testosterone supplements or something.

TV ratings are down in both the NFL and college football, so clearly people are craving more football.

They should play with the same rules the NFL had in the 1970s.

That could really take off. Could they put a team in Kansas City that wears red and is called the Kansas City Chieftains? They could win my heart.

Never in there says it's coming back just pure speculation. Even the first sentence says it may be nothing. Please fix your tag line

Who had this bad idea?

Ermines

Now we know what Trump meant when he said make America great again

I guarantee that if some school names their team the Ermines, I will become an active fan of theirs.

Do you mean "Hermines"? Clay's old clan? LMAO


http://i.imgur.com/xsHlhuX.jpg

I would think that all the people who hate Goodell and players that kneel would jump at the chance to go to another league.

Weird post

I hope it does well. We need a decent starter league. They should do what they did last time with innovation but go the other route. Better rules, get rid of helmets and padding. Rugby type pads and helmets. No hits to the head.

XFL had a lot of good ideas the first time. Today MLS stadiums are the perfect size. The biggest problem was they rushed the start and didn't give enough practice time for the teams to gel.

You aren't going to get NFL ratings or attendance but you can have a solid product that could produce some decent tv ratings for a slower time in sports.

Apparently they filed a patent on UFL United football league

Can't we just have the women in lingerie league back?

Vince McMahon sells $100 million of WWE stock as XFL reboot plan continues
Posted by Michael David Smith on December 21, 2017, 6:07 PM EST
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Rumors that Vince McMahon wants to reboot the XFL are officially more than just rumors.

Today the WWE revealed to the Securities and Exchange Commission that McMahon has sold about $100 million worth of stock, and that he did so “primarily to fund a separate entity from the Company, Alpha Entertainment LLC, which Mr. McMahon established to explore investment opportunities across the sports and entertainment landscapes, including professional football.”

Translation: McMahon wants to try to create a rival pro football league again. And now he has enough cash on hand to give it a go.

There had already been plenty of smoke around McMahon wanting to reboot the XFL, which crashed and burned after one season in 2001. Most of that smoke was about McMahon securing trademarks related to the XFL, trademarks that he previously abandoned because he thought he was out of the pro football business.

But securing a trademark is a far cry from selling off a huge amount of stock in the business McMahon has spent a lifetime building. This is a move that indicates McMahon very much wants to run a pro football league again, and will spend a lot of his own money to make it happen.

McMahon has said nothing publicly about his plans for a new league or when it could start play. He announced his plans for the first version of the XFL in early 2000, and that league began play in early 2001. So perhaps McMahon will announce XFL 2.0 in early 2018, and play will begin in early 2019.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...lan-continues/

i was flicking around and saw that a couple of months ago. Looked interesting for about 30 seconds. That was a real deal and not a commercial?

$100 million should give it a good start.

I would watch it.

Matt Cassel season 1 mvp

DEMONS!!!

I hope the xfl comes back....

The biggest problem was the lack of a consistent game day........

I still think they should do fridays or saturdays, even if high school or college is competing. I dunno about a week day.....

Either that or do sundays and start the season in march and have the championships in june.

AND they ENCOURAGE the players to date the cheerleaders!!!11 Sooo coooool. Sooooo edgyyyyy!!!11

BBQFBL :D

I hope the XFL comes back and steals a ton of NFL thunder. Obviously the household names wouldn't be the same. But there would be a few that we would all know. But this is mainly because I think Vince McMahon is a ****ing legend. I love him. One of the best businessmen to ever live. He's a GOAT.

I want to see the ball scramble again:

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What’s He Hate Me up to these days?

Comprise the team of retired cheerleaders

I was just coming to post "only if He Hate Me does color commentary."

LMAO

That's why the XFL lost $70 million in its first season, despite a network TV deal.

Great businessman.

LMAO

You're an idiot if you don't think he's a great businessman.

You try to succeed/learn from mistakes/repeat.

Maybe share some of your billion dollar business stories that have worked for those of us out of the loop.

Fyp, dipshit.

He was great for wrestling, not so much for professional football.

And maybe you can go **** yourself.

Strike that: Go **** yourself.

He Hate Me is the bomb, man.

I will, but only because you told me to.

Thanks for the advice Forbes magazine.

Parlayed some real talent with some marketability due to that name into a pretty good NFL run

You're a ****ing moron.

ROFL @ the "Forbes magazine" comment

I'll legitimately watch the XFL when it returns.

If Vince wants to make it work this time, his first act should be to put teams in San Diego, Oakland and St. Louis.

Meh. Vince McMahon doesn't have a chance if he tries to **** with the NFL. He's ****ing fantastic at out carneying his competition in wrestling, but with that much of a disadvantage he doesn't have a shot.

Man if only Ted turner was still competing with him, xfl football to nitro ball or whatever

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Play with no helmets, and there's no such thing as a personal foul.

I'd love to see it overtake the NFL, and if Vince plays his cards right and times his moves carefully, it potentially could.

The single most important thing to do first, is to decide if it's going to be scripted like WWF, or a "real sport" like the NFL is (cough) supposed to be (cough).

If he's going to script it - let us know!!! Don't piss up our legs and tell us it's raining like Roger Goodell - we hate that, it insults our intelligence, and we're sick and ****ing tired of it., Personally, I'd rather watch an admittedly scripted XFL, than the NFL in it's "play cannot be challenged because I say Mariotta was gong forward even though he wasn't" current state.

Conversely, if he's going to tell us both teams have an equal unbiased chance to win every game, call the games evenly. Don't allow NE and Pitt defenses to pick up fumbles and run them back while you instruct your refs to blow fumbles dead when KC SD and Jax defenses force them. Once you start this shit, we'll see it, and call you on it, and turn the TV off and talk with each other on the net about what crock your show it. The difference is, you won't have the millions of NFL sycophants clobbering to defend your BS the way Roger Goodell has idiot Chiefs Fans actually parroting "duh Triplette just made a bad call when he lied to millions and said Mariotta was going forward, herpity derp"

Just don't piss up our legs and tell us it's raining Vince, and you should be fine. The NFL hasn't left us very dry these last few years.

Did a test run live stream. Heres the new logo.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUZcEMYW0AExSvo?format=jpg

Those helmets in the back remind me of how so many NFL teams copied those XFL designs in the years following it's disbandment. I realize these are new, but the XFL really had those streaky types of designs years before the NFL teams did.

If Vince learns from his mistakes from the first go around, it may do just fine.
The first XFL run was insanely rushed and not well thought out. Also, they tried to make the broadcasts way too adult and storyline-related. That was back when WWF was in its R-rated Attitude era. Now they present a more PG product so I imagine the XFL will go in that direction more than the first run. It can be a nice alternative to watch during the NFL offseason.

He Hate Me Jr.?

Am I correct in assuming that in XFL Future, every player will be forced to have a Billy Ray Cyrus haircut, and the heads of the losing team will be placed upon pikes?

I hope Jesse Ventura does the commentary again.

Go Ermines

Truthfully-more reboots please. Next thing that will be remade is Murphy Brown.

wait.....

I'd like to see someone start an alternate basketball league with wider courts, longer courts, and higher rims. The NBA and NCAA are just boring to me now because the players have developed to a point where the courts are too small. Everyone runs the same offense and there's little diversity in play. I think if you widened the courts and raised the rims you'd bring back the inside game and have a lot more diversity in style of play.

Tebow, Manziel, and Kaepernick could be starting QBs. LMAO

I don't have any delusions that this could work but it couldn't come at a better time. While the NFL fan experience is built by a bunch of suits with no imagination, will be interesting to see a league that actually connects with their fans. Especially at a time when millennials are so disconnected from the sport.

The NFL should be rum more like an entertainment option, not a business. And I think the xfl will get that. They only survived one year and yet are responsible for a lot of the innovation in today's NFL.

Wrestling has been in a downward spiral for years when it comes to ratings. RAW and Nitro used to be able to get 4 to 5 million viewers each during the same time slot, with a lot less TV's in homes, and now WWE is struggling to get over 3 million just for RAW, except for the peak time of January to April.

I predict that even if this gets off the ground, it will fail spectacularly.

The original XFL was a joint venture between WWE and NBC, whom at the time, didn't have any NFL Broadcast Rights.

Finding a broadcast partner, when NFL ratings have seen a downturn recently, isn't going to be easy.

McMahon has stated that "We want someone who does not have any criminality associated with them whatsoever. In the XFL, even if you have a DUI, you will not play in the XFL," McMahon said. "If Tim Tebow wants to play, he could very well play.", which will make it much more difficult to find a talent pool, especially since the NFL expanded their Practice Squads to 10 from 8.

I wouldn't be surprised if the NFL countered by allowing more PS players and expanding the Game Day roster.

In other words, 2 hour games featuring only Choir Boys, with an emphasis on player safety.

I heard that KC will be getting an XFL team because of all the people here who say they won't watch Mahomes since Reid is still calling plays and Sutton is our DC....


Look for Geno Smith to be the QB in KC for the XFL....

I think he's hedging on this being less relevant/important as time goes on. Simplification of the game should broaden it to a wider audience, and that combined with a potential international audience make streaming options the most logical choice. In tandem, of course, but typical network reliability won't be a major issue in the future.

It's live events. Somebody will broadcast it.

He'll need a broadcast partner with money. Otherwise, he'll have to create an App for all streaming devices and somehow, garner an audience and advertisers.

It's truly an uphill battle. The NBA is growing in popularity, MLB baseball ratings are good and nothing can compete against the NFL from August to February.

If the rationale for lower Broadcast Network Ratings is "overexposure", the XFL won't benefit at all.

Plus, as we all know, the quality of play will suck.

Lets see, I bet TNT or TBS could stop showing reruns of Law & Order for a few minutes in return for some XFL. What's crazy is that NBC carried that shit.

I find it difficult to believe that CBS, NBC, Fox or ABC/ESPN would have any interest in broadcasting XFL games.

NBC carried it because they had lost the Broadcast Rights to the AFC to CBS.

NBC also lost tens of millions on the XFL.

I hope they encourage the massive hits the NFL is pussying out on.

The NFL has over-featured the offense. Make this a showcase for defenders absolutely raping people.

Receivers should be absolutely terrified to go over the middle in the XFL.

Broadcast rights could go to an online service. Hulu. Netflix. Twitter HBO.

I will do what I did the first time. Watch week 1. Quit watching.

It's the exact opposite: McMahon has stated that there will be an emphasis on player safety.

Manziel has a criminal record, so he's out. McMahon has also stated that every player will be required to stand for the national anthem, so I seriously doubt that Kaepernick will be involved.

Also, for a guy like Kaepernick, what's the incentive? He's still worth tens of millions and I seriously doubt that at age 32, he'll want to play for $15k a game or less.

McMahon is funding the league with $100 million dollars for 8 teams. After staffers, GM's, a 40 man roster for each team, etc., the paychecks will be less than what NFL Practice Squad players are paid.

Ohh boy.......

If the XFL is "staying out of political and social issues," wouldn't the logical thing be to not play the anthem before games at all?

Saying that you're going to stay out of things like that in one breath but then saying that players will be REQUIRED to stand in another breath seems kinnnnda like a contradiction. Maybe its just me.. Inb4 the people saying the anthem is not a political thing.. you would have been right about that a few years ago, but it is absolutely a politicized issue at the moment.