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Pakled posted:If the XFL works this time, maybe someone other than EA would get the license to make the video games and the completion would rock the Madden series out of the doldrums it's been in for years. Maybe, but when 2K made the All-Star 2008 game, it was met with a collective meh.
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The only parts of Fox not sold to Disney are Fox News and Fox Sports so we all know where Vince is going to air it. I ebay'd a HE HATE ME jersey a few months ago just because. He's the only player to be in the NFL, CFL, and XFL. Legend.
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It was the same feeling at the time. "Oh man a league with good games, extra football we can watch, guys trying their heart out." It was worse than Thursday Night Football every game. Maybe if they had a better lead up to the league, practice time, better workouts, the on field product would be good. But as it was? The games were really bad outside of a handfull. And then instead of trying to improve the onfield stuff, they just added more camera shots of cheerleaders, and promos and cheerleader lockerrooms. Athanatos fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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From what I remember of the XFL, both the football and wrestling fans at my high school hated it.
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And didn't they hire like ancient out of date coaches like Schnellenberger and poo poo during the spread offence boom in college?
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algebra testes posted:And didn't they hire like ancient out of date coaches like Schnellenberger and poo poo during the spread offence boom in college? hah you thought they could get a name coach like Schnelly. Galen Hall, Ron Meyer, Rusty Tillman, Gerry DiNardo, Al Luginbill, Jim Skipper, Kippy Brown and Jim Criner were the XFL head coaches.
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Yaws posted:Why does he think this will work? The XFL was a massive failure, people recall it as an embarrassment, no major networks are going to carry it, the talent pool will be non-existent.
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a flag humping football league run by egoists wrapping itself in #patriotism and not giving a poo poo about the players as they continue to kill one another through head shots? Well thank god we don't have anything like that right now...
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Vince should just bankroll the Atlantic Schooners in the CFL.
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Cross-posting from PSPBenne posted:https://twitter.com/mookieghana/status/943958240374685702
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Looks like it's even more he sold off! https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/943977326861307904 Ahhh shares vs stock equals the same thing. My bad. Still...this is really happening, eh?
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a new study bible! posted:Hope Vince bankrupts himself
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If they went full progressive and did a 7 on 7 league, reduced helmets/pads as to discourage using your helmet as a weapon, complete run and gun gently caress it I'm going deep make the Big 12 look like the Big 10 offense it might find a niche audience. Instead it's gonna be flag loving fartball that no one will give a poo poo about after the first five minutes and it's gonna tank the WWE stock price in the process. 
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Remember that this is because he thinks that anthem protests are responsible for dwindling NFL viewership.
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Hell, let the man make XFL 2. He's already got a line of progression for the WWE, let him spend his money and try again. What does he have to lose besides money?
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Athanatos posted:It was the same feeling at the time. "Oh man a league with good games, extra football we can watch, guys trying their heart out." The whole No Preseason Games bit them once the season started and nobody had a cohesive offense.
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The fact that he's funding this without a TV deal secured is ballsy Who am I kidding, every game will air live on WWE NETWORK
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EugeneJ posted:The fact that he's funding this without a TV deal secured is ballsy I could see a GOTW on NBCSN, maybe the title game on NBC proper if it's a spring league. Rest get streamed on the network, maybe YouTube/Facebook as well.
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EugeneJ posted:The fact that he's funding this without a TV deal secured is ballsy Weren't wwe investors in FloSports? Perhaps Vince tries to use xfl to sell a second streaming app. Obviously if he wants to make money on this they need a tv deal but who knows what crazy rear end Vince is thinking
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schweens posted:Weren't wwe investors in FloSports? No. You're probably thinking of WWN, a loose association of indie promotions run by Gabe Sapolsky (who somehow manages to challenge Vince when it comes to insane carny promoters, and the biggest reason FloSlam went tits-up).
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HerraS posted:itll air on c-span This would be the best possible thing. X-Span would rule. Vince funding his own government would be awesome TV.
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Benne posted:No. You're probably thinking of WWN, a loose association of indie promotions run by Gabe Sapolsky (who somehow manages to challenge Vince when it comes to insane carny promoters, and the biggest reason FloSlam went tits-up). I thought WWE put some money into it with the idea being that they could get some of the tape library when FloSlam eventually folded.
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It's going to be really funny when Vince loses 100 million dollars betting on Alt-Right fuckheads being able to prop up an entire sports league when football has already passed the saturation point, and thinking people want to see more injuries than touchdowns per season.
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schweens posted:I thought WWE put some money into it with the idea being that they could get some of the tape library when FloSlam eventually folded. I think it's more of a "yes and no" situation. They set up some kind of talent exchange program between NXT and WWN (a lot of the guys in the Cruiserweight Classic were former EVOLVE stars), with the obvious endgame of streaming Gabe's promotions on the WWE Network one day. Then Gabe went and made the deal with FloSlam, which WWE supposedly knew nothing about beforehand. Curiously enough, we never heard about an NXT/EVOLVE relationship after that.
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Benne posted:I think it's more of a "yes and no" situation. They set up some kind of talent exchange program between NXT and WWN (a lot of the guys in the Cruiserweight Classic were former EVOLVE stars), with the obvious endgame of streaming Gabe's promotions on the WWE Network one day. Then Gabe went and made the deal with FloSlam, which WWE supposedly knew nothing about beforehand. Curiously enough, we never heard about an NXT/EVOLVE relationship after that. If they would turn WWE into a network with sports, they should also bring back American Gladiators with WWE Superstars and Mike Adamle.
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C. Everett Koop posted:I could see a GOTW on NBCSN, maybe the title game on NBC proper if it's a spring league. Rest get streamed on the network, maybe YouTube/Facebook as well. I could see NBC getting sold on the idea of broadcasting year-round Sunday Night Football with XFL in the spring since they own the branding Or maybe Vince goes balls-out and decides to run a fall league against the NFL, and another network decides to put XFL on Sunday and Monday nights
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EugeneJ posted:Or maybe Vince goes balls-out and decides to run a fall league against the NFL, and another network decides to put XFL on Sunday and Monday nights It'll be the Monday Night Wars all over again! ...the second one, between WWE and TNA. The one that was a giant disaster week one and only got worse.
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Didnt Shane try to stop the first? Where are you Shane?!?!
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a.lo posted:Didnt Shane try to stop the first? Where are you Shane?!?! He's too busy writing his self-insert fanfic on Smackdown right now
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a.lo posted:Didnt Shane try to stop the first? Where are you Shane?!?! "The XFL ownership contract DOES say McMahon, dad... but not VINCE McMahon..."
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Benne posted:He's too busy writing his self-insert fanfic on Smackdown right now Don't forget that Stephanie and Hunter are literal Mary Sues of themselves and can't lower their egos. At least Vince knew how to sell a storyline and get his come uppance.
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I want the first game to be at a stadium in Texas, and none of the rosters are announced ahead of time The announcer says "and now, the visiting team captain..." and Kaepernick walks out mid-field and takes a knee Would be the best thing and I need it in my life
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EugeneJ posted:I want the first game to be at a stadium in Texas, and none of the rosters are announced ahead of time I would watch a league where Kaep cuts promos about black lives matter before games
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algebra testes posted:I would watch a league where Kaep cuts promos about black lives matter before games The Nation of Domination rises again.
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Silly Burrito posted:The Nation of Domination rises again. 
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EugeneJ posted:I want the first game to be at a stadium in Texas, and none of the rosters are announced ahead of time After the Patriots/Seahawks superbowl, when my friend was down in the dumps because Tom Brady had screwed his favorite team on the one-yard line, I said to him "Wouldn't it be amazing if the Buffalo Bills came out and cashed in Money In The Bank right now?" He laughed his rear end off and replied to me "Only if when Kyle Orton comes out onto the field to cash in, he RKO's Brady, and takes off his helmet to reveal he's actually RANDY Orton." I was then inspired to add: "And then the whole team takes off their Bills Jerseys to reveal Las Vegas Outlaws uniforms, and Vince McMahon appears to say the XFL is back and they're taking the Lombardi Trophy back to Nevada TONIGHT!" I choose to believe there is now a non-zero chance of this conversation becoming a reality.
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