Spring League Thread...

[BipolarFuk]

It appears Vince McMahon is ready to get back in to football, as ESPN's Darren Rovell is reporting the WWE CEO will announce Thursday afternoon that he's starting a new professional league.

McMahon previously launched his own professional football league, the XFL, in 2001 but the organization folded after just one season.

McMahon registered a number of trademarks in December that suggested a potential foray into professional football, and sold $100 million of his WWE stock to fund a new venture.

The XFL lost $70 million in its one season of operation, according to Alfred Konuwa of Forbes.com, so it's doubtful that McMahon would simply reboot the defunct league with no changes.

 

[BipolarFuk]

How long until Trump is pimping this on Twitter?

Stone cold stunners for players that don't stand for anthem?

 

[Rev]

The return of HeHateMe...

 

[bbgun]

How long until Trump is pimping this on Twitter?

Stone cold stunners for players that don't stand for anthem?

McMahon has already stressed that all players must stand for the anthem, so ....

 

[Cotton]

 

[Cotton]

The return of HeHateMe...

 

[Cotton]

 

[Cotton]

 

[bbgun]

If they lose the gimmicks and try to put something together as serious as the USFL, I might watch. Until then, it's just arena league football.

 

[skidadl]

I'll watch it. The Cowboys are often a joke, so what's the difference?

 

[Cotton]

Vince McMahon vows higher quality play in the new XFL
Posted by Michael David Smith on January 25, 2018, 3:24 PM EST

This is the XFL again, but it’s a better XFL, according to Vince McMahon.

McMahon, the wrestling mogul who announced today that he is re-launching his pro football league, said that the No. 1 priority will be making the quality of play on the field better than it was when he tried and failed to establish the league in 2001.

“I think the most important thing we learned with the older XFL and now the new XFL is the quality of the play,” he said. “We have two years to really get it right. It’s the quality of the play.”

McMahon didn’t say precisely how he plans to make the game on the field better, but he did say he will spend a great deal of time listening to everyone — football players, coaches, fans, members of the media, sports medicine experts and others — to figure out how to make the game better.

As for whether the XFL will have the famous jerseys with nicknames on the back, McMahon isn’t sure.

“I’m not sure if we’ll have the individuality like ‘He Hate Me.’ We’re not there yet,” McMahon said.

The new league won’t launch until January of 2020, and McMahon said he has no idea where teams will be located.

“We’re way away from announcing any cities,” McMahon said.

There’s still a lot McMahon doesn’t know. But he does know he has some unfinished business in pro football.

 

[Cotton]

 

[Cotton]

 

[boozeman]

Okay. This will not last.

 

[Cotton]

Okay. This will not last.

Not if he also wants to field a "quality product".

 

[bbgun]

It will not hire players who have arrest records.

blacks hardest hit!

And it will make sure that all of its players stand for the national anthem.

anti-black!!

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Trust me, that will be the narrative.

 

[boozeman]

blacks hardest hit!



anti-black!!

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Trust me, that will be the narrative.

It has already started.

If it survives a year or two, it can wait out and have Trump as Commissioner.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Deuce]

It has already started.

If it survives a year or two, it can wait out and have Trump as Commissioner.

It’ll basically be a regional football league because I bet this news kills it in the south.

 

[Bluestar71]

At the rate it's going the NFL may get usurped by the NBA in the near future but I don't think it has much to worry about from another Vince McMahon football D-league. Without the money available to match NFL contracts no alternative football league is ever going to compete with Gooddell's 800lb gorilla.