XFL Thread 2018-2019

[heihachi]

Just announced today by Vince McMahon, the XFL will be coming back in 2020 for a second round against the NFL.

This time there will be no cheerleaders, no fireworks, no gimmicks--just football and god-loving men and women standing for and singing the national anthem (not kidding, Vince said this will be required).

So, until 2020, speculate away. Personally, if they decide to do the custom names on the jerseys, I hope there's a "He Hate Me II" somewhere.

More info:

- 8 teams
- 40 players
- 10 game season.
- 4 team semi-Finals
- 1 championship game

 

[Lets Gekiga In]

I’m stoked. The goal for two hour long games is awesome.

 

[heihachi]

I like the multimedia approach he mentioned. If I can stream all the games easily on my phone, I'll probably watch even the football is sub-par. It'll be like an entire season of Thursday Night Football. By the way, they should definitely have a team in Cleveland. That's a market a half-decent team could capture imo.

 

[BanishingFlatsAC]

I'll only watch if the games conform to my sleep schedule.

 

[Tw3ek]

I'll only watch if the games conform to my sleep schedule.

Gotta make sure the championship game is on a Saturday!

 

[fake]

But can the players bodyslam and clothesline each other for extra points?

 

[famicommander]

This is going to fail so, so hard.

 

[Igakajook]

This is surprising. With doing away with all of the gimmicks from the first attempt, is the new XFL selling-point convenience?

 

[kuze]

But can the players bodyslam and clothesline each other for extra points?

Doesn't that go without saying?

 

[heihachi]

Honestly, the main selling-point will probably be that it's a "Republican" football league where players are forced to stand for the anthem and can't have criminal records. Vince is friends with Trump, so expect tweets from Trump shilling for the XFL in the future.

 

[fake]

Honestly, the main selling-point will probably be that it's a "Republican" football league where players are forced to stand for the anthem and can't have criminal records. Vince is friends with Trump, so expect tweets from Trump shilling for the XFL in the future.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[andsuchisdeath]

But can the players bodyslam and clothesline each other for extra points?

No. Only ganso bombs and steiner screw drivers are allowed.

 

[fake]

No. Only ganso bombs and steiner screw drivers are allowed.

I was hoping for Gronku-san's finishing move...

 

[NGT]

But can the players bodyslam and clothesline each other for extra points?

I went to an xfl game in sf way back when. This guy's helmet came off and someone on the other team picked it up and threw it like 20 yards down the field. Easily my favorite part of the game. The actual football was meh.

 

[ForeverSublime]

Have they said anything about gambling? Has the line opened up on the Patriots taking it all, yet?

 

[andsuchisdeath]

I was hoping for Gronku-san's finishing move...

Yeah, I forget Gronk's finishing move he used to use in the CFL.

Gronku-bombah, I can't remember? Any Canadian members wanna chime in?

 

[andsuchisdeath]

I'm also hearing rumors on the new franchises.

Trenton Reznors
Erie Ghouls
Sacramento Hard-Spirits

I don't know...

 

[NeoSneth]

i can see how he feels the time is ripe with the slowing ratings of football, but i think it's slowing because the public has lost interest overall.

 

[jro]

It'll do even worse than it did the first time around. No tv deal to put $100 million into crappy football, sure, that'll work.

 

[neo_mao]

I'll only watch if the games conform to my sleep schedule.

Gotta make sure the championship game is on a Saturday!

Or you could just make your wife sleep in a different room and then she can watch it while you sleep and then after the game she can go to bed by herself in her own room without waking you up and then she can tell you about it the next day.

 

[famicommander]

Basically, they're going to take CFL and AFL players, who are playing very different versions of football than what is played in the NFL, and make them play like NFL players.

But the obvious point is that if those guys could play the NFL style as well as NFL players, they'd be in the NFL to begin with.

So they're going to make the unique CFL and AFL games worse to put on a shittier version of the NFL game.

This is bad for everyone.

 

[ForeverSublime]

Did they define a catch?

 

[Splitt442]

I can't wait!

 

[Lastblade]

If at first you fail, fail again.

 

[Lets Gekiga In]

Basically, they're going to take CFL and AFL players, who are playing very different versions of football than what is played in the NFL, and make them play like NFL players.

But the obvious point is that if those guys could play the NFL style as well as NFL players, they'd be in the NFL to begin with.

So they're going to make the unique CFL and AFL games worse to put on a shittier version of the NFL game.

This is bad for everyone.

AFL is basically dead. Gladiators suspended play and Tampa folded. Only four teams this season, one is an expansion and half the teams play in the same metro area and have the same owner.