I was reading in a book about the football leauge Vince McMahon made, called the XFL.

Does anyone remember it?

ya, it sucked. The only cool part was the cointoss. They got a guy from each team, kicked the ball off and they both ran downfield to see who could get it first

Otherwise, it was just like regular football, except that you got to hear what route/play the QB was calling....and one-on-one, in-game interviews with the players on their thoughts?!?! OOOOOOOOHHHH.....fun times...:rolleyes:

I remember He Hate Me, but that's about it. Anyone remember the USFL?

I remember some of the teams, but not much about the league itself. The football league I remember the most from my younger days was the WLAF.

Originally posted by Travh20
ya, it sucked. The only cool part was the cointoss. They got a guy from each team, kicked the ball off and they both ran downfield to see who could get it first

Ah, yes, the scramble or something like that.

I think it had some good ideas.....

the NFL could learn a bit from it.... maybe having a shorter play clock so the game doesn't drag so much

I liked how the XFL was play after play after play..... not alot of huddle time.

Wasn't Jesse Ventura a commentator?

The last football league that actually acomplished something was the AFL. They merged with the NFL, and all the owners made a fortune.

From what this book says: The XFL opened with 14 million viewers...then like 3 the following weeks.

The XFL was WAY over-hyped.

How so? I thought they did a pretty good job of overlooking it.

Well, not so much in how often they advertised it, but what they were advertising. They made it sound like it was going to be "a brand of football we had never seen before." Something that's going to put the NFL to shame. Something that was going to change the course of american football as we know it. I just loved the commercials and how it was all advertised in war-torn areas with large tanks, machine guns, barbed wire, really making it look like an extreme sport...apparently it didn't happen that way.

I don't remember all that vividly...but it seems like I remember a lot of commercials about how the cheerleaders were like going to be as known as the players or something.

Originally posted by jerejerebinks
I don't remember all that vividly
Somehow, I do.

I looked foward to it for months but was dissapointed when i saw a complete game. I liked the coin toss too

They probably made a mistake by not wanting to pay the players that much.

They were probably depressed because although they werent world-class atheletes...they were atheletes, and all they want is cash.