Can’t he just you know, buy sports team like every one else? He could purchase his local Gridiron team, is there any in Connecticut?
Oh no, Vince has to be in charge of the whole kit and kaboodle. One little shitpot team isn’t enough for him.
From Vince McMahon, King of Ring Girls and Female Wrestlers? Sure. The only way to make football “more safe” is to stop playing the game.
Who would have thought Vince was a snowflake?
Bullshit. I’ll believe this is a real thing when they’re playing the games. Fill a team with squeaky clean, God-fearing 'Murricans who are willing to kill themselves for peanuts? Maybe. Fill ten (or whatever size this league is supposed to be)? Not gonna happen.
I hope like Hell that the national anthem isn’t a thing next season, much less 2020. Yes, I know it’s a way for sports writers to get clicks and angry callers on sports talk radio, but I’m tired of the issue.
I have a hard time believing they’ll also keep with the no arrests policy. They’re already looking at marginal talent to stock this league. You’re going to tell me they won’t take a player who got busted for using a fake ID to get into a college bar?
I wonder if Vince is working some tax angle on this XFL scheme. Maybe he needs to show a loss for some reason? I can’t imagine he’s going to make any money with minor league football.
The biggest problem here is that I am convinced that the arrest problem is directly correlated to the concussion problem. I know that there are some NFL players who are clean and mentally together, but so many have these issues because they play football. If the league is going to play tough, physical football, and have players who learned to play that way, I don’t see any way that they can avoid players with records.
So it’s XFL "Super Bowl Saturday night. Of course they can’t afford a big neutral stadium so it’s just being played in the home field of the Columbus Bulldogs. Mysteriously police come to the hotel room of visiting Little Rock Snakes quarterback with the report that there are drugs. They find some and the QB is arrested.
Of course, he’s exonerated later, but too late. He can’t play in the big game.
URFL? More like Awful!
Yet another reason there will never be a Vegas line on any football McMahon is involved with.
It’s all a Trump ploy, all involving the national anthem, from a huge Trump supporter whose wife is in the Trump administration.
As a former mod I’m surprised you made such a vague and shitty thread title.
As to the XFL, I wasn’t really paying attention the first time around. But they ran it up against the NFL and CFB in the fall, right? I can’t fathom why someone would make such an obviously stupid decision. There’s a whole year round to fill, why would you pick the only time of the year that people were already oversaturated with the real thing? You’d have to want to fail on purpose for that to be your plan.
All you need to do is run your league from March to June or so - when people who are really into football are so desperate for more football they’re looking at reports from training camp - and run your league with some sort of fun twist. Not so different from real football as arena ball, but not just D league football either.
Come up with some fun gimmicks. No punting allowed - the offense has to make a first down in 4 scores or turnover on downs. Require the coaches to submit the playbooks to the broadcast crew - so that when of the plays is called, right as it’s about to be run (just after it would be useful to the opposing teams), show how the play was supposed to go. Hell, use a skycam and overlay the play like you’re watching a real life Madden game. Something like that.
Catering to “patriotic americans” with all of that no arrests shit makes it sound like a pretty shitty and boring gimmick, but then again there’s a lot of money to be made pandering to those people. Tell them their ignorance actually makes them smart and good Americans and they’ll throw their money at you. Hell, have Sean Hannity do a 2 minutes hate of liberals during halftime if you’re going to go that route.
I think an alternative football league could succeed under the right conditions. Doesn’t sound like this one is going to be it.
Are you familiar with how the USFL ended?
I just hope they keep the mad scramble for the ball at midfield to determine kickoffs. That was always kinda cool.
No. It started shortly after the Super Bowl, and ended in April.
The reason it died is because it was shitty football. Everyone who talks about the NFL being the No Fun League and imagining a wilder kind of football, or one where everyone stands for the anthem, can compete is just stupid; there is no market for shittier sports. The tier below the NFL is already taken by NCAA football and there people KNOW they’re watching lower quality football. Gus the Trumpist might watch a few games because the black players are being put in their place, but after two weeks of shit football he’ll be back.
More news on the [del]McMahon’s ego[/del]XFL front: Apparently Vinnie is prepared to blow a half a billion on XFL II.
How much has he got in liquid assets? Will he have to give up the WWE?
His wife works for Trump, but I can’t imagine Vince being stupid enough to try this idiocy again. There really isn’t a huge market for inferior American football after the Super Bowl and it would be beyond foolish to try to run against the NFL. There just isn’t a market for a second tier pro football league, not with endless college games available.
You know, I get what people mean when they talk about the No Fun League. I grew up with CFL, so naturally biased, but the thing is, there is a theme to the differences in the rules between CFL and NFL: every rule difference makes the CFL game a wilder one, with more flexibility.
I remember a long time ago **RickJay ** commented that the CFL had kept closer to the rugby roots of both games, and I think he’s right.
Certainly, I don’t find the NFL very exciting to watch.
Why not? He was stupid enough to do it the first time.
It’s an interesting philosophical puzzle. You have two guys in a room, and one guy sticks a fork in a wall socket and is painfully zapped.
Who is more likely to stick a fork in a wall socket next, the guy who already did or the one who hasn’t yet?
You may argue that the one who already experienced pain is more likely to avoid repeating the experience. But I’d wager that he’s simply the less intelligent of the two for doing it in the first place and therefore is still more likely to be the next to do it.