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Old 10-29-2004, 12:03 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Anyone remember the XFL?

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So, does anyone here remember the XFL? I got my dad to buy tickets for all the one's coming to Memphis. I think that was about 4 or 5 games. We only went to 2 . Still have the other unused tickets. I kinda liked it. Damn hot cheerleaders.

I wonder why it didn't survive. Why do you think it didn't last? Of all the money Vince had it's not as if the game was underfunded or anything. He had the $$$ to do it. It didn't compete with NFL. Was it the rules of the game that people didn't like? Not enough games? Bad television recordings? He should have done something easier like baseball or something. Not sure how Xtreme baseball could be tho. No sexay cheerleader in baseball so that sux.

Anyone want to make any comments on the XFL? I liked it while it lasted.

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Old 10-29-2004, 01:19 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I wonder why it didn't survive. Why do you think it didn't last?
It didnt last because Vince underestimated the potential to make it a proper sport rather than a laughing-stock wannabe WWF entertainment enterprise.

Bad business decision on his part...I thought he had a bit more sense than that at the time and was surprised that he went down the route of making it trashy.

He had the audience, but the f*ed it up.

(just my 2cents)
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Old 10-29-2004, 02:42 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Not to mention that all of the XFL players were just NFL rejects. Although I did enjoy how they had each team designate a runner to grab the ball at the beginning of each game, rather than a boring coin-toss. That was pretty cool.

He-Hate-Me, just the name itself, is what killed it for me. I-Hate-He-Hate-Me.
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Old 10-29-2004, 05:40 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Not to mention that all of the XFL players were just NFL rejects. Although I did enjoy how they had each team designate a runner to grab the ball at the beginning of each game, rather than a boring coin-toss. That was pretty cool.

He-Hate-Me, just the name itself, is what killed it for me. I-Hate-He-Hate-Me.
Don't forget, He Hate Me is now playing in the NFL. (I guess he really didn't hate him.)

I had a client who played in the XFL. He was a former NFL'er who played part of three seasons, and when he played in the XFL, he ended being a third stringer there. Kinda sad. (Oh, and his wife left him just before the XFL - whole other story.)
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Old 10-29-2004, 06:47 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Don't forget, He Hate Me is now playing in the NFL. (I guess he really didn't hate him.)
Rod Smart, now with the Panthers.

I tried watching the XFL, but it was aiming too hard for 'entertainment' instead of 'sports'.
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Old 10-29-2004, 07:05 AM   #6 (permalink)
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It was only a few years ago, how could we forget? Does anyone remember the USFL?
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Old 10-29-2004, 07:39 AM   #7 (permalink)
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I tried watching the XFL, but it was aiming too hard for 'entertainment' instead of 'sports'.
I thought the opposite. I checked one game out on NBC, and it was too much like football. Yes, I know it WAS football, but for it to have been successful, it should have been more wrestling. Wrestling with some football thrown in. That's what would have kept the audience that McMahon had from his WWF(E? oh who cares) coming. But it was too much like legit NFL. That's what made it fail.

But what do I know, I'm just a girl
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Old 10-29-2004, 07:53 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Haha, that's the exact point my dad and I made, Averett, it's too much like football. We
were hoping for something like, if a guy makes a breakaway towards the endzone, somebody
comes rushing off the sidelines with a metal chairs and slams the runner over the head with
it. Or when, let's say a linebacker goes to tackle someone, he puts them in the Tombstone
slams them on the ground... that type of stuff, not just reject-football.
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Old 10-29-2004, 07:57 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Let's compromise. It wasn't sport enough for the NFL audience, and not entertainment enought for the WWF audience, and therefore it fell through the gap in the middle.
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Old 10-29-2004, 08:53 AM   #10 (permalink)
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I think the problem was that based on the league name, team names, the fact that Vince McMahan was running it, etc., it was expected to be a fake football, "sports entertainment" thing. Once people realized that it was simply bad football, they ignored it.

The thing is that professional sports has become such a huge business that unless you are creating a niche for an existing sport (Arena football) or building a league for a new sport (MLS, MLL) you are almost guarenteed to fail.

I do love how the later XFL games got the lowest ratings for any television programs in network history, though.
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Old 10-29-2004, 01:39 PM   #11 (permalink)
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We were hoping for something like, if a guy makes a breakaway towards the endzone, somebody comes rushing off the sidelines with a metal chairs and slams the runner over the head with it. Or when, let's say a linebacker goes to tackle someone, he puts them in the Tombstone
slams them on the ground...
LOL!!! That would be so awesome. Someone needs to send a memo to Vince. I can see the comercial now: A big guy dressed as an XFL football lies dead in a black background. A few seconds pass and Vince comes running up with defibrillators in each hand and yells "CLEAR" and starts zappiong the football guy. Then the the footbal starts to move and gets back up and says w00t and runs off in excitement. Then they show a few seconds of highlights of the 1st season of XFL and a message saying "We're back!" or something like that.

Wow...my mind is being creative today. That would be fun to bring back the XFL and try football mixed in with wrestling. But don't I remember ppl saying in the begining things like "Oh it's just going to be football with wrestling. It won't be real football." and stuff like that. Seems like a fun idea to me

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Old 10-29-2004, 02:00 PM   #12 (permalink)
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as so many ppl have expressed, i expected nothing short of NFL:Blitz in real life...but when i saw it was just crappy real football, i ignored it. And i'm a member of the NFL audience...why do i need to watch two leagues of real football?
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Old 10-30-2004, 11:15 AM   #13 (permalink)
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The players were bad and watching it on TV was boring. TV is where the money is.
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Old 10-30-2004, 11:35 AM   #14 (permalink)
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TV ratings dropped like a rock. People like watching football - as long as it wasn't bad football.

But considering these guys were, for the most part, washed up/never rans who didn't get much practice time in, is it a surprise noone wanted to watch?

I tried watching, but it was pretty painful. On a funny side note, though - the "behind the QB" cam that the NFL uses was first used in the XFL. They just waited a year after the XFL folded to not seem like they were stealing a nice idea.
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Old 10-30-2004, 01:38 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Yes i do remember the XFL. It was a bad memory, but yes i do remember. The cheerleaders were probably the only good part of it. If you start changing the rules of football, that is just wrong.
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Old 10-30-2004, 01:41 PM   #16 (permalink)
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I remember the governer of my state doing on-air commentary. That was good for a laugh.
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Old 11-01-2004, 01:10 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I remember watching it, and I loved the alternative to the coin toss, the extra cameras (sky cam anyone?) and much more on the field dialog, really got you involved in the game. High school level ball, unless its your high school or your childs high school, is really not worth watching to me and I guess the rest of people.
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Old 11-01-2004, 07:35 PM   #18 (permalink)
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the extra cameras (sky cam anyone?) and much more on the field dialog,
that was the best thing to come out of the xfl
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Old 11-02-2004, 06:38 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Oh, and don't forget the microphones on the refs as they discussed if there was a penalty or not. That should be carried over to the NFL as well.
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