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I can't wait for all these guys that couldn't make it to the regular NFL to make their grand secondary appearance on the XFL! For a name like XFL, they really should embrace it. ALL players will be juicing and denied sex unless they win. GET THAT BALL OR YOU'RE FIRED!
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Getting paid more to win owns because the most lovely guys on each team (if this can be determined) will catch beatdowns in the locker room tent on a regular basis
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Cavauro posted:Getting paid more to win owns because the most lovely guys on each team (if this can be determined) will catch beatdowns in the locker room tent on a regular basis This really is the best though, because with this model at least. If you want to make money you better actually give a drat.
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Make the A-11 offense legal and I will watch every game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-11_offense
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I cannot believe this is actually happening. What the gently caress
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The QB kneel will be replaced by turning around and saluting the flag and it will be glorious #MAGA
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Wait, the players "will be paid to play and paid extra if they win."? Does that mean that they are going to use the WWE 'employment' model where the talent is considered to be "contractors" and as such are prevented from unionizing and poo poo? Will you be SOL if you get injured?
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Vengarr posted:I cannot believe this is actually happening. world is a gently caress
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Svensken posted:Wait, the players "will be paid to play and paid extra if they win."? IIRC that's exactly how it worked the last time. That guy who got injured on the first game didn't get paid for the rest of the season he was off the field.
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Jetfire posted:IIRC that's exactly how it worked the last time. That guy who got injured on the first game didn't get paid for the rest of the season he was off the field. Oh please Lord let's this be the glorious tire fire we all expect it to be.
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Svensken posted:Wait, the players "will be paid to play and paid extra if they win."? Remember the XFL gave 0 fucks about player safety last time. We're going to see someone die on the field.
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Jetfire posted:IIRC that's exactly how it worked the last time. That guy who got injured on the first game didn't get paid for the rest of the season he was off the field. Oh jesus, didn't people get injured in that dumb scramble for the ball they replaced the coin flip with? Does that mean they don't even get paid for that game because they were injured before the first play? Edit: https://twitter.com/NuclearTakes/status/956639621793886212 No Politics!
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skaboomizzy posted:Make the A-11 offense legal and I will watch every game. That's pretty great, line up anywhere and everyone is eligible seems like a glorious offensive clusterfuck, and it's also solid smoke and mirrors to cover the fact that there's probably gonna be lots of lovely QB's in the XFL. Based on the announcement they're taking a lot of the approaches I would take. Forcing anthem standing is BS, but from a business standpoint it makes sense and we'll see if they're smart enough to keep their word and make that all the politics they inject into it. Sliding right into that February window is smart (I would have considered going a few months further to around a May-July season just so people may have forgotten what good football looks like, but playing when most other major sports orgs aren't is almost certainly worth that trade off), 8 teams is the number I would have chosen initially, and one person owning all the teams creates at least an appearance of impartiality that I like, though it's also infinitely easier to decide who the good and bad teams will be when you're deciding which teams get what players, depending on how much Vince and far more likely the managers Vince chooses are involved in that process. I was surprised to see them selling it as a safer league when the original XFL took the complete opposite approach, but that's another sensible response to modern NFL criticisms, and separating it from wrestling is also the way to go. Good luck actually making that happen though, and even if they do it won't mean much if they use the previous pay structure of "win for more money" (making it more likely guys kill themselves on plays trying to win) and "you got injured? LOL sucks to be you." Overall their plans seem to at least give the league a prayer of success, which is much more than it had last time, so we'll see how it goes. For all his many faults Vince sometimes pulls out legitimately genius-level decisions or ideas, so until we actually see that they're putting janitors out on the field I'm keeping an open mind. NowonSA fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Have they stated if XFL will have replay? I hope not if they're trying to shorten games. Let's go back to when a catch was a catch dammit! No replay, but if it's determined a ref made a wrong call after the fact, the affected player gets a free shot at the ref.
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NowonSA posted:Overall their plans seem to at least give the league a prayer of success, which is much more than it had last time, so we'll see how it goes. For all his many faults Vince sometimes pulls out legitimately genius-level decisions or ideas, so until we actually see that they're putting janitors out on the field I'm keeping an open mind. Vince has literally never had a successful business venture outside of wrestling
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Tato posted:Have they stated if XFL will have replay? I hope not if they're trying to shorten games. Let's go back to when a catch was a catch dammit! They're targeting two hour games, but I think cutting off replays entirely would piss off fans too much. It's not like there are that many replays in NFL games now, it's more slowed down from penalties than anything. The simplest rule change to pop games into hyperspeed is to have the clock run on incomplete passes, that would put you on track for around two hours even with a halftime break. Going that much further into wacky time rules, why not make the clock stop for just about everything at under two minutes left in each half. Out of bounds, incompletions, and first downs all stop the clock for the full play clock time. If you've sped up the game enough beforehand you could even make the clock stop on every play whether it's a run or a pass, in bounds or out, and suddenly you have a guaranteed 15-20 plays in the last two minutes, could be an interesting dynamic there. Or for extra drama make that only apply in the last 2 minutes of the 4th quarter. You could also do one timeout per half, now you really gotta manage that clock and be surgical with how you use that sucker. What I'm saying is give me the football rulebook XFL and let me do all my crackpot ideas.
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Benne posted:Vince has literally never had a successful business venture outside of wrestling Yeah, it is certainly a fair criticism that all genius has taken place directly related to wrestling.
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To be fair to Vince, the strokes of genius he had in wrestling weren't purely wrestling-related, they were connected to a very real understanding of media and how people consume it. If he still has that touch (and given the WWE Network mostly being successful, he might?)...who knows. I mean, I think the talent level and the quality of play will be Bad and that will sink this whole thing, but. The man knows how to deliver content in a way that people will consume it. 
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fsif posted:Imagine getting so mad about a protest that you repeat your most embarrassing professional failure but make it worse. that was when he got arrested and put on trial for dealing steroids
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Is the CFL really that horrible to watch? That seems like the upside of this thing - I imagine there are markets in this country, mostly with minor league sports franchises instead of major league, that can just about sustain CFL-level football on a CFL-level scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5BFaykcxGg Gotta kick it out Gotta get five yards
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I was reading about the 1987 strike, teams threw together scab players within a week or two. They absolutely can get teams together for this. Getting cities on board probably won't be too hard, they'll just have to take locations that have a decent college stadium. The old XFL had a couple of teams that played in NFL stadiums too. It's absolutely feasible. Whether or not it's sustainable? Well...
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If I were a billionaire I would pay each player $100K to kneel and not let anyone know about it in advance
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fsif posted:Imagine getting so mad about a protest that you repeat your most embarrassing professional failure but make it worse.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:My favorite fact about the XFL 1.0 was that there was no health insurance for the players https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtAgTYQfmc&t=97s "Well I'll tell you what we have our first injury of the night on the scramble." "I've never seen anyone injured on the NFL coin toss!"
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Athanatos posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtAgTYQfmc&t=97s oh my god. I never actually watched the first time around and had no idea JR and King did the commentary
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Please no disrespecting the better football from Canada.  Also betting 1 million dollars right loving now that they're gonna force the crowd signing the anthem.
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seiferguy posted:I was reading about the 1987 strike, teams threw together scab players within a week or two. They absolutely can get teams together for this. Getting cities on board probably won't be too hard, they'll just have to take locations that have a decent college stadium. The old XFL had a couple of teams that played in NFL stadiums too. The problem is they have no coaches, no stadiums, no rulebook nothing. When the NFL strike happened they just lost the players which they could replace.. with much worse players, but everything around them was there.
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