Other The XFL

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Same stadiums as the NFL teams of the same locale?

 

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Same stadiums as the NFL teams of the same locale?

Appears so. They must be therefore be playing on another day, or somehow the league schedules are not going to cross, allowing a football game in each city every week -- be it NFL or XFL.

 

[GWBogan]

Same stadiums as the NFL teams of the same locale?

Dallas - Globe Life Park, current home of the Texas Rangers (MLB) but ground will be converted to a football stadium and Rangers to be relocated to Globe Life Field.
Houston - TDECU Stadium, current home of the University of Houston Cougars (NCAA).
Los Angeles - StubHub Center, current home of LA Galaxy (MLS) as well as the Los Angeles Chargers (NFL) before they move to Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in 2020.
New York - MetLife Stadium, current home of both the New York Jets and New York Giants (NFL).
St. Louis - The Dome at America's Center, former home of the St. Louis Rams (NFL) before they re-relocated to LA, currently vacant.
Seattle - CenturyLink Field, current home of the Seattle Seahawks (NFL).
Tampa Bay - Raymond James Stadium, current home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFL).
Washington D.C. - Audi Field, current home of D.C. United (MLS).

 

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Ex-Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops has agreed to be the head coach and general manager of the XFL's Dallas franchise.

In a word — what? 58-year-old Stoops, who stepped down after 18 seasons at Oklahoma in June 2017, resisted NFL overtures for two decades. For him to make his comeback in Vince McMahon's revived renegade league is downright bizarre. Perhaps Stoops views it as a way to get back on the NFL radar, though there are surely other ways he could have done that. He must just want to do it.





Source: Calvin Watkins on Twitter

 

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Former Browns assistant head coach Pep Hamilton signed with the XFL to become head coach and general manager for its franchise in Washington, D.C.
Hamilton took a job with Jim Harbaugh at the University of Michigan after playing second fiddle to Hue Jackson during his one-year stint with the Cleveland Browns, but his time with the Wolverines was short. Technically back in the professional ranks, Hamilton seems to have full control of the D.C.-based franchise.
SOURCE: XFL on Twitter
Feb 22, 2019, 7:02 AM

 

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Seattle's XFL franchise announced Jim Zorn will run the team as head coach and general manager.
The XFL will kick off in 2020. Zorn, 65, is a Seattle legend as the first-ever quarterback in Seahawks history. Zorn has been out of coaching since 2012. The AAF startup league has shown that coaches who spend time away from the game can return to implement exciting new concepts, most notably the Orlando Apollos' Steve Spurrier and the Arizona Hotshots' Rick Neuheisel.
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SOURCE: Seattle Times
Feb 26, 2019, 8:04 AM

 

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Vince McMahon sells $272 million in WWE stock to fund the XFL
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 2, 2019, 12:56 PM EDT

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With the Alliance of American Football barely clinging to life, America’s other spring football league has plenty of cash on hand.
Vince McMahon, who plans to give the XFL another shot next year, has sold $272 million worth of WWE stock, and company filings say that money will primarily go toward the XFL.
“Mr. McMahon executed the sale primarily to fund a separate entity from the Company . . . which Mr. McMahon established to explore investment opportunities across the sports and entertainment landscapes, including launching a professional football league under the name ‘XFL’,” the company said in its SEC filing.
McMahon still controls the WWE, but he has made it clear that he’s serious about pouring his own money into the XFL. McMahon has said he’s ready to spend $500 million over the first three years of the XFL to get the league off the ground, suggesting that even if the league struggles to gain traction at first, he’ll stick with it rather than pulling the plug after one season, which he did last time he launched the XFL — and which the AAF is doing today.

 

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Vince McMahon sells $272 million in WWE stock to fund the XFL
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 2, 2019, 12:56 PM EDT

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With the Alliance of American Football barely clinging to life, America’s other spring football league has plenty of cash on hand.
Vince McMahon, who plans to give the XFL another shot next year, has sold $272 million worth of WWE stock, and company filings say that money will primarily go toward the XFL.
“Mr. McMahon executed the sale primarily to fund a separate entity from the Company . . . which Mr. McMahon established to explore investment opportunities across the sports and entertainment landscapes, including launching a professional football league under the name ‘XFL’,” the company said in its SEC filing.
McMahon still controls the WWE, but he has made it clear that he’s serious about pouring his own money into the XFL. McMahon has said he’s ready to spend $500 million over the first three years of the XFL to get the league off the ground, suggesting that even if the league struggles to gain traction at first, he’ll stick with it rather than pulling the plug after one season, which he did last time he launched the XFL — and which the AAF is doing today.

Can see the XFL now becoming NFL2 in a few seasons time with Vince as the CEO and a big fat cheque.

 

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Can see the XFL now becoming NFL2 in a few seasons time with Vince as the CEO and a big fat cheque.

hopefully, i despise the NFL

 

[Blacky]

And the AAF going under

 

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XFL: Success or failure of other leagues has “no impact” on us
Posted by Mike Florio on April 2, 2019, 8:05 PM EDT

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The Alliance of American Football isn’t officially gone, but it feels like only a matter of time before it’s announced that the suspension of operations has become a termination of the business. The XFL has issued a statement regarding Tuesday’s developments.
“We have said all along the success or failure of other leagues will have no impact on our ability to deliver high-quality, fast-paced, professional football,” the league owned and operating by Vince McMahon said, via Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Journal. “The XFL is well-funded, we have time before kick-off to execute our business plan, and we will soon announce a national broadcast and cable TV schedule that makes it easy for fans to find our games consistently every weekend when we launch next February. There is no doubt that avid football fans want more and we’re excited to get going in 2020.”
The funding ultimately is the key, and the XFL apparently has it. (The AAF did, until it didn’t.) The question is whether McMahon will remain patient through the inevitably lean year(s), as the XFL tries to develop a footing.
The real question is whether the XFL can hold on until legalized gambling develops to the point where the vast majority of Americans: (1) can quickly and easily bet on sports; (2) want more football on which to bet; and (3) have at their disposal the ability to place real-time in-game betting. That’s the key to making an alternative football league viable.
Making the task easier for the XFL will be the lack of competition — unless and until another alternative league tries to enter the space. Still, the question is whether XFL 2.0 can ultimately fare any better than AAF 1.0. Or XFL 1.0.
At least XFL 1.0 lasted long enough to crown a champion

 

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Oliver Luck believes time to plan and money to spend will help XFL survive
Posted by Mike Florio on April 4, 2019, 1:05 PM EDT

The demise of the AAF has caused some to wonder whether the XFL will suffer the same fate, especially since XFL 1.0 ultimately lasted only one season. XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck remains confident that his league will be fine.
Appearing on ESPN’s Outside The Lines (via SportsBusiness Daily), Luck pointed to the “time to plan, and plan properly” and the “capital contribution and capital commitment” from founder Vince McMahon as reasons for believing that the XFL won’t suffer a quick demise.
Having two years to get all ducks in a row “allowed us to plan — to plan our workers’ comp system, to plan our general liability insurance, stadium leases, practice facilities.”
“All of those things take some time,” Luck said. “We’re going to launch in a much better position, quite honestly.”
Still, quality of the launch and quality of the execution are two different things. During Thursday’s PFT Live, Chris Simms and I reviewed some of the things that a spring football league needs to do in order to not just survive, but to thrive.

 

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Clemson’s Justyn Ross thinks some players will leave the NCAA for the XFL
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 4, 2019, 9:48 AM EDT

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Justyn Ross was one of the best players on the field in the College Football Championship Game, catching six passes for 153 yards to help Clemson defeat Alabama. Ross is an elite talent, good enough that he could play in the NFL right now.
Unfortunately for Ross, he’s a true freshman. Like his teammate, freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence, he’s stuck in college because of the NFL rule requiring players to be three years out of high school before they can play in the NFL.
But Ross might only be stuck for one more year, not two. That’s because the XFL, which will launch next year, has already said it will take players who are less than three years out of high school. Ross and Lawrence would be obvious targets for the XFL, and although Ross told Bleacher Report that he has a good support system in place and a mom who wants him to get a college degree, he thinks other players will see the XFL as a better option than the NCAA.
“If [the XFL] is offering that kind of money, that’s hard for an 18- or 19-year-old to turn down,” Ross says. “If you really need that money, oh yeah, go do that. Something could happen. You can get hurt. Anything can happen. You have to take care of yourself because it can be over just like that.”
A player like Lawrence, who’s the early favorite to be the first overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft, is unlikely to consider the XFL. The money he could make by playing in the XFL in 2020 is minuscule compared to what the NFL will be offering him a year later. And Ross sounds like he’s likely to wait for the NFL as well. But if the XFL can convince even a few highly talented freshmen and sophomores to leave their NCAA eligibility behind and play in a new professional football league, it will be a good way for the XFL to recruit talent and generate attention — and a good way for players to turn pro when their only other option is remaining amateurs.

 

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Spring League tests XFL “tap” rule that sends players to sideline
Posted by Mike Florio on April 8, 2019, 6:20 AM EDT

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As the XFL reimagines football, it’s reimagining the manner in which football is officiated.
The Spring League, an XFL partner that has become essentially an incubator for the league’s rulebook, is using a device that allows an official to “tap” a player who has done something he shouldn’t have done, but that may not rise to the level of a penalty.
It’s a purely discretionary call, aimed at defusing the situation in lieu of slamming the brakes on the game and marching off a penalty. Ideally, it will be used when the infraction doesn’t “significantly impact” the play.
It seems mainly to be a way to impose a sanction on the player without punishing the team. That would make it more applicable when guys are pushing and shoving and otherwise doing things that aren’t quite egregious enough to merit a full-blown personal foul, or for example when a player is blatantly holding away from the action.
The “tap” punishment likely applies to only one play, assuming that the coach puts the player back in the game after that play. In theory, the coach could decide to just keep the player’s replacement on the field for the rest of the drive. If the replacement does well, maybe he stays even longer.
Ultimately, it’s a device for keeping the games moving and reducing the number of yellow flags that, no matter how justified they may be, tend to irritate paying customers. And that will make this rule a welcome change to the manner in which a football game is officiated.

 

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is it okay to post this drd23 ?

cool, i love this idea....

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XFL to use one-, two-, three-point conversions
Posted by Mike Florio on April 8, 2019, 7:37 PM EDT

Lawrence Welk would like this idea. (Google it, kids.)
Appearing on Monday’s #PFTPM, XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck said that touchdowns in the new league will result in the scoring team deciding whether to go for one point, two points, or three points.
The one-point conversion would come not from a kick but from a scrimmage play at the two. Two points would be scored after a successful conversion from the five. And three points would be scored for a successful conversion from the 10.
Luck said that the league considered moving the three-point conversion to the 15, but that the coaches believed defenses would more easily defend the end zone with that much territory to cover.
Unlike the AAF, which eliminated the one-point play and made only a two-pointer available, a team scoring a touchdown in the XFL will emerge with 6, 7, 8, or 9 points.
For more on the XFL, check out the full interview.

 

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Blacky BeinPurplenGreen

can i have this stickied and the AAF sticky unstickied, please

 

[Blacky]

Why does this need to be stickied GG haha?

 

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Why does this need to be stickied GG haha?

good point, well when the league starts i guess

 

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XFL continues to look at possibility of signing players not eligible for NFL draft
Posted by Mike Florio on April 9, 2019, 3:26 PM EDT

The XFL won’t be the NFL, in one very important way: The XFL won’t rule out signing players who are less than three years removed from high school.
Appearing on Monday’s #PFTPM podcast, XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck was asked whether the XFL has heard from college players who’d like to leap to the XFL in 2020, even if they can’t be drafted by NFL teams until 2021.
“I would say this there has been as you know a number of guys who’ve sort of talking about it,” Luck said. (Indeed they have.) “I think our launching point, February of 2020, is still down the way a little bit. We’re not actively talking to anybody at this point, but it is something that we are looking at. As I have said many times before I would only do that if I believe and our coaches believe [that] a young man who is not eligible enough for the NFL but nonetheless has the physical, the emotional, the mental sort of maturity to play professional football, because we’re gonna have 26-, 27-, who knows, 28-, 30-year-olds playing in our league. . . . It’s something that’s certainly in our playbook. At this point we really haven’t spent much time thinking about it.”
They’ll surely be thinking about it in time, especially if true sophomores or redshirt freshmen decide after the 2019 college season to leave school and enter the XFL. The question then becomes whether the XFL would structure their contracts to allow them to leave after the 2021 season, for the NFL draft.

 

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Can see the XFL now becoming NFL2 in a few seasons time with Vince as the CEO and a big fat cheque.

Won't get near NFL quality even in the long term. McMahon been ****ing over wrestlers for decades. Pits them against each other. Virulently anti-union. Hates agents. Nasty person and won't change in his 70s. War chest is to keep the XFL afloat until broadcast rights have value.

 

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Won't get near NFL quality even in the long term. McMahon been ******* over wrestlers for decades. Pits them against each other. Virulently anti-union. Hates agents. Nasty person and won't change in his 70s. War chest is to keep the XFL afloat until broadcast rights have value.

agree, unfortunately. but you never know either. the nfl has reached critical mass.

 

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He won't allow any player to become a bigger brand than the XFL. Huge part of why WWE steadily got worse. He resents The Rock and Steve Austin for leaving after they became celebrities via WWE. Dave Bautista was walked to the door by security on his last day in 2010. No one's allowed to be too cool anymore.

 

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He won't allow any player to become a bigger brand than the XFL. Huge part of why WWE steadily got worse. He resents The Rock and Steve Austin for leaving after they became celebrities via WWE. Dave Bautista was walked to the door by security on his last day in 2010. No one's allowed to be too cool anymore.

agree, but my fingers are crossed

 

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Won't get near NFL quality even in the long term. McMahon been ******* over wrestlers for decades. Pits them against each other. Virulently anti-union. Hates agents. Nasty person and won't change in his 70s. War chest is to keep the XFL afloat until broadcast rights have value.

Cheques are what makes Vince tick, and when the NFL realise what the XFL can do for the NFL similarly to what the NFLE did then the XFL will become the NFL2. Basically what the NBA did with the D-League.