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Skwirl posted:Those are definitely descriptions of successful business ventures.
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Roasted Donut posted:throw this loving crap in the garbage and bring back the AAF
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Remember the first game of the XFL when, instead of having a kickoff they were gonna get all pit fighting about it and have players collide at midfield to get the ball? Then on the very first play of this game one of the guys got injured for the season? It's even funnier now because most NFL and NCAA teams elect to defer anyway so I keep imagining that XFL scrum only with neither guy trying to pick up the ball.
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BiggerBoat posted:Way late cause I just found the thread but I think you meant "USFL". That league was viable, had a good product and filled a niche very nicely: spring football played on Saturdays. Some idiot got it in his head to compete directly with the NFL but his name escapes me. Wonder what ever happened to that loser? Football for a Buck is such a good book. That guy, though...competing directly with the NFL as a "fine. You won't let me buy an NFL team? Then i'll just go over here, take over this league, come up with really bad ideas, and then through the magic of lawsuits ....the NFL will merge with us and i'll be an NFL owner" was not the best move.
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We Got Us A Bread posted:Football for a Buck is such a good book. That guy, though...competing directly with the NFL as a "fine. You won't let me buy an NFL team? Then i'll just go over here, take over this league, come up with really bad ideas, and then through the magic of lawsuits ....the NFL will merge with us and i'll be an NFL owner" was not the best move. I sort of got the logic behind the thinking since that's what the AFL did way back but...the USFL model was really good as it was and the level of play (unlike the XFL) was pretty good as well. All they had to do was stay in their lane, continue bidding for high level players while inserting a salary cap and then look to gradually expand into cities without an NFL team that dug football. I'm old enough to remember the league and "competing with the NFL" was the furthest thing from their minds when they started and the dumbest thing they could have done. They filled a void between the end of the NFL season and the start of baseball season rather well and brought football to cities that couldn't garner NFL interest (Birmingham, Jacksonville, Portland, Memphis, San Antonio) or who had lovely support (Tampa Bay, Oakland, Baltimore). It was a cool spring football league with enough big names and some really great logos and such. It was a place for the Doug Fluties of the world. If it existed today, Tim Tebow, Colin Kaepernick and guys like that would have a place to play and probably would succeed or at least generate enough interest to sell tickets. Just look at this beautiful thing:  That's the most bad rear end helmet I've ever seen. Carolina should steal this and change the colors to black and cyan instead of that goofy clip art helmet logo they have now. Designed 35 years ago and superior to any of these XFL things. I hate Vince McMahon with a passion, hate his PT Barnum approach to things and hope this thing crashes and burns spectacularly fast. I don't know what sort of vacuum he's trying to fill by doing this either. "where's my smash mouth football?" seems misguided.
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't know what sort of vacuum he's trying to fill by doing this either. "where's my smash mouth football?" seems misguided. \ 
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I firmly believe history will remember Vince Mcmahon as a cautionary tale of having too much money. When the XFL goes down, its gonna leave a bunch of folks looking for jobs.
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coconono posted:I firmly believe history will remember Vince Mcmahon as a cautionary tale of having too much money. When the XFL goes down, its gonna leave a bunch of folks looking for jobs. I firmly believe he'll be the GOP nominee for president in 2024.
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BiggerBoat posted:I firmly believe he'll be the GOP nominee for president in 2024. I dunno if God loves us enough to give us such a gift, but now I sort of hope you’re right because if anything Vince is even more soup-brained than the obese old toad in office now
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SatansOnion posted:I dunno if God loves us enough to give us such a gift, but now I sort of hope you’re right because if anything Vince is even more soup-brained than the obese old toad in office now Yeah, god knows someone that dumb could never be elected president.
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To my way of thinking, he's the natural progression until we get to Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.SatansOnion posted:I dunno if God loves us enough to give us such a gift, but now I sort of hope you’re right because if anything Vince is even more soup-brained than the obese old toad in office now And that's a good thing that you want? I'm only half kidding about it and wish I wasn't. Vince could run and easily get at least 35% of the vote as a base right out of the box.
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my logic here is that he's already badly overexerting himself micromanaging two wrestling shows (probably three now) to death and leading a doomed vanity football league founded on the principles of "you'll stand for the anthem goddamnit". I figure that all of those and a presidential campaign should be enough to cause his heart to explode or something
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SatansOnion posted:my logic here is that he's already badly overexerting himself micromanaging two wrestling shows (probably three now) to death and leading a doomed vanity football league founded on the principles of "you'll stand for the anthem goddamnit". I figure that all of those and a presidential campaign should be enough to cause his heart to explode or something You vastly underestimate the power of cocaine on a man like Vince
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vince is rich enough to have the medical care to survive that sort of thing
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BiggerBoat posted:I firmly believe he'll be the GOP nominee for president in 2024. Vince and Trump are similar, but Vince doesn't have that certain, uh... what do you call it? Overt racism. He doesn't have the overt racism of a Donald Trump.
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LividLiquid posted:Trump is a stupid man's smart person. He acts like an idiot in a way that makes people think he's a genius. There a think pieces upon think pieces about how he's very calculating when he's anything but. https://youtu.be/APrPDwUosrQ
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SatansOnion posted:my logic here is that he's already badly overexerting himself micromanaging two wrestling shows (probably three now) to death and leading a doomed vanity football league founded on the principles of "you'll stand for the anthem goddamnit". I figure that all of those and a presidential campaign should be enough to cause his heart to explode or something All the chuds I know gobble up that anthem poo poo so really Vince couldn't be setting himself up better for a run
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Sep 25, 2019 13:10
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Vince also exercises
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https://twitter.com/xfl2020/status/1181283279514660864
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Saqwan, Berkley Edwards
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Disappointed they couldn’t get Nyquillis Dillwad and Grunky Peep.
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https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1179848307801284609?s=19
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Looked through the list and there's a DE named Willy Mays, hell yeah.
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I’m Storm Norton
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Roberto Aguayo lol.
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Jessamen Dunker is in the wrong sport
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I hope my team gets assigned Vad Lee because that's a hell of a name.
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yeah thats what i expected. 5 guys ive heard of
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Oct 7, 2019 21:52
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Raysean loving Pringle. Print the shirts
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From the branding stuff that had come out before, I just assumed everyone in the XFL was going to have names like "Biff Johnson" or "Stan Hunt", and maybe one punt returner named "Reggie Dart".
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First pick overall Al-Hajj Shabazz! This is like Madden franchise mode after a few years where everyone in league is named Handsome Tanielu or Siupeli Anau.
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Seems like "Mosling" was a pretty common auto-generated surname in Madden, which I don't think I've ever encountered irl.
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Where’s he hate me?
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I don't know but for a while this summer he was missing. Apparently he's safe and sound nowquote:Rod Smart, the former NFL running back better known as "He Hate Me" during the original run of the XFL, has been reported missing for nearly a week, according to various reports and South Carolina police records. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ex-nfl-rb-rod-smart-aka-xfls-he-hate-me-found-safe-after-being-reported-missing-in-south-carolina/
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BiggerBoat posted:I sort of got the logic behind the thinking since that's what the AFL did way back but...the USFL model was really good as it was and the level of play (unlike the XFL) was pretty good as well. All they had to do was stay in their lane, continue bidding for high level players while inserting a salary cap and then look to gradually expand into cities without an NFL team that dug football. Considering the massive, massive cash blackholes that VCs are currently keeping afloat with no viable business plan (Uber, WeWork, etc), the USFL was just 30 years ahead of its time. I guarantee if you combined the vanity appeal of being a major pro sports owner with some DISRUPTIVE buzzwords there'd be tech idiots lined up ten deep for the chance to lose billions over the first decade. Peter Thiel's Modesto Vampires Year -1 Champs
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Kevyn posted:I’m Handsome Tanielu
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Korren Kirven is my favorite minor Star Wars character.
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