XFL

[SdBacker80]

Big fan of the no kick extra point and then the extra point or points option.  I’m not a fan of kicking anyway but it’s nice to integrate your skill guys more in those plays and then you can play catch-up faster.  
 

I think the kick off start rule has a good shot of catching on in the NFL for safety reasons. 

[MLD Woody]

Outside of a few teams with bad QB play, the XFL has been great. Already better than the AAF

[MLD Woody]

[lodilobo]

@mld-woody said:

Outside of a few teams with bad QB play, the XFL has been great. Already better than the AAF

Yep....I agree...very entertaining. How long before we have a NFL vs. XFL playoff?

[mjp28]

@lodilobo said:

Yep....I agree...very entertaining. How long before we have a NFL vs. XFL playoff?

100 years (but the XFL might not last 10).  The NFL is having viewership issues now the NFL is pretty much at the saturation point especially when you factor in college football.  Football every day of the week for months.   Plus their schedule is all wrong for a playoff unlike the old AFL vs NFL which had less other competition.

I was even a little surprised when the Arena League folded, I thought small market ball would work but it didn't.

The XFL 2.0 is pretty much big market with NFL teams in the area.

[The Cysko Kid]

Vince McMahon always had some money but in the years between 2001 and now some money blossomed into "a lot of money" as in billions. He could probably afford to float the xfl along through a couple of early rough seasons. If he can get a few key investors who knows what could happen. The fact of the matter is football is king and I would personally rather follow the xfl then the other major sports. 

The AAF or whatever it was called that just folded had neither money or broadcast partners. 

[The Cysko Kid]

They were smart to avoid sideshow acts like Johnny Manziel and go with guys like Cardale Jones and Landry Jones 

[The Cysko Kid]

I hear Antonio Callaway is on a team although injured. 

[calfoxwc]

I would never have opened this thread, I just don't care......

except I just saw this: lol

https://www.theblaze.com/news/kaepernick-wanted-20-million-to-play-in-xfl

[The Gipper]

@the-cysko-kid said:

Vince McMahon always had some money but in the years between 2001 and now some money blossomed into "a lot of money" as in billions. He could probably afford to float the xfl along through a couple of early rough seasons. If he can get a few key investors who knows what could happen. The fact of the matter is football is king and I would personally rather follow the xfl then the other major sports. 

The AAF or whatever it was called that just folded had neither money or broadcast partners. 

It DID have broadcast partners.    Like ESPN and Fox or even NBC.  It may not have had money....and apparently it didn't, which was the sole reason it folded.  I guess I don't understand how it didn't have money when those networks were paying broadcast rights fees.  

I think it is just that spring ball does NOT work.  Not the AAF, not the USFL,  not the first XFL, and likely not this.  Not in the long term.

[The Gipper]

@calfoxwc said:

I would never have opened this thread, I just don't care......

except I just saw this: lol

https://www.theblaze.com/news/kaepernick-wanted-20-million-to-play-in-xfl

Well, that was just silly.  He is not in the NFL because he is perceived to just not be that good. If he were a superior talent.....he would have had a job notwithstanding whatever troglodyte attitudes existed toward him. 

[The Gipper]

There was a discussion on the radio today that in the event that this XFL  expands before too long, that Cleveland.....or maybe even Canton, could get a team.  (The HOF stadium can handle 23K....enough for an XFL team).

Then they speculated on names.

If either Cleveland of Canton got a team, what would you call it? 

[Icecube]

@the-gipper said:

Maybe.   But the XFL did just conduct a "draft"   ...not a college draft, but one that apparently picked up street Free Agents, including the following names:

Cardale Jones

Connor Cook

Sammie Coates

Matt McGloin

Landry Jones

Orson Charles.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/xfl-draft-tracker-results-picks-list-rosters-football-league/jahz8p84e4i61hb8lajqs4a22

Landry Jones....LOL

[ATOM]

@mjp28 said:

In game 1 today, ok don't know some of the players.

But coaches Jerry Glanville and Marc Tresman some real oldies.  Marc was Kosar's QB coach at the "U".

Next Bob Stoops and Dallas.

freaking glanville is a clown he stopped here for a few years to coach the portland state vikings

[mjp28]

@atom said:

freaking glanville is a clown he stopped here for a few years to coach the portland state vikings

Oh yeah, I remember him well when he was in Houston and used to make jokes about Cleveland.  Then to Atlanta and basically out of pro football.

[Icecube]

@calfoxwc said:

I would never have opened this thread, I just don't care......

except I just saw this: lol

https://www.theblaze.com/news/kaepernick-wanted-20-million-to-play-in-xfl

LMAO 

[Icecube]

@atom said:

freaking glanville is a clown he stopped here for a few years to coach the portland state vikings

I loved seeing Glanville, totally not expected. He pops up on screen, and I'm like "that looks like Glanville." Some of his Oiler teams were good. 

[ATOM]

@icecube said:

I loved seeing Glanville, totally not expected. He pops up on screen, and I'm like "that looks like Glanville." Some of his Oiler teams were good. 

oh ya he did have some good teams left tickets for Elvis and drove his harley on the field but while here in P-Town he was just here to collect a check

[Icecube]

@mld-woody said:

Outside of a few teams with bad QB play, the XFL has been great. Already better than the AAF

Well they figured out gimmicky didn't work. Oliver Luck impressed. 

[LBC mike]

Love me field goal games.