Vince McMahon to Target Alienated NFL Fans with 'New XFL'

XFL's Wildcats fire DC Johnson after one game

And they cut their Captain.

 

Just from the AAF experience, it takes a few games for a defense put together on the fly to come together.

QBs in this league are going to put a lot of highlights on their show reel in the next game or two. Not so much after.

 

Is Lorena Bobbitt the GM? Cutting Johnsons -- uuuuueeeee.

 

Sounds like a league of very stable geniuses.

 

All beginning sports leagues have weird shit goin' on at the beginning. As long as the checks keep clearing on time, I think that's the biggest "key" to success.

 

Week 2 is always a challenge for upstart football leagues. People tune in week one and then realize, ok - its football. I'm waiting for a column saying that this new XFL needs more pizazz. More players doing weird stuff on social media, more contract and teammate beefs, more players being arrested, you know, just like the NFL.

 

They released an app this week. Pick the scores correctly and win $$. I wonder if fantasy will come in Yr 2. Kinda of hard to promote something like that this year when the coaches don't even know who the starters are yet.

XFL Mobile Apps

 

The fact that it's on ESPN is good for the league, if only because bars will just blindly leave ESPN on their TVs and it will get in front of some eyes that it might not have otherwise.

 

Here is what's weird. I've long bemoaned how it seems like beat coverage is about everything but what happens in a game. Injuries, player beefs, pending trades seem to dominate reportage. With the XFL, really all you've got is game coverage because people don't know the players, the dreaded "storylines" (I really hate that word when used in sports broadcasts - subplots is a better word) are non-existant.
Good thing there is gambling. Maybe now I get why they decided to set up shop in major cities.

https://nypost.com/2020/02/11/xfls-betting-friendly-approach-is-paying-off-with-fans-and-vegas/