Is the XFL Back? Football year-round? Starts Feb 8th

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wirelessjava

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Setting aside the minor detail that nobody asked for it, the XFL is back, baby. Beginning in early February, this latest attempt to make a spring football league work in the U.S. will get underway.
There are four former NC State football players that made a final XFL roster: Jack Tocho, Mike Stevens, Johnathan Alston, and Jalan McClendon. Tocho, Stevens, and McClendon are teammates on the Los Angeles Wildcats, so it looks like that’ll be the team I adopt for two weeks before completely losing interest. Alston plays for the Seattle Dragons.
Tocho is turning himself into the answer to a trivia question, since he also played in the short-lived Alliance of American Football last spring. That league didn’t even get through its 10-game regular season before running out of money and folding. But Tocho was a regular for the Birmingham Iron in the games they did play—truly, I would have to say, a Birmingham Iron legend.
Time will tell if the re-born XFL can do better, but either way, the football promises to be mediocre. The regular season begins on Feb. 8.
 
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Valuist

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One of the draws in the NFL is the limited number of games: 256 total regular season games. Compare that to MLB, the NBA or NHL. Commoditize football and you cheapen the product.
 
John Kelly

John Kelly

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An eight-team league with some familiar names serving as head coaches.

Bob Stoops, June Jones, Jim Zorn and Marc Trestman, to name a few.
 
WildBill

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I get a weird feeling that this might actually last awhile. McMahon hopefully learned some humility lessons last time out. Good array of media coverage will help and can't underestimate the value of legal sports betting in so many places now. Degenerates betting on whoever to win on MNF made it what it is now, XFL has that opportunity because let's face it typical small bettor knows next to nothing about the teams he bets on in TV games. Why should he care what team he backs, if it feels like a coin flip and he bets it for action there might be some audience. One mistake I think they will fix is the teams in these big markets where few are going to pay to see inferior pro football. But after year one they can figure out where it's not going to work and move the franchise to the next location to try out. Not 100% there, but such a need for a showcase for these guys to play in. Players in early years should do it for nearly nothing just to get on tape and hope for a camp tryout in August.
 
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wirelessjava

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I dont understand the AAF goes bankrupt and the XFL gets new life. XFL stated it each team will have a 52 man roster ?? Does that mean they will go bankrupt faster ?
 
Sportsrmylife

Sportsrmylife

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The stupid thing the xfl did was instead of a coin toss to have two guys sprint after the ball from 50 yards away and whoever recovered it either got the ball or the choice.
 
WildBill

WildBill

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MrTop said:
the league needs quality stats & logs for people to bet.


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Maybe for you, but I bet you will just attack slow moving books and back anything that looks like steam. No?

The squares are just betting randomly anyways. How much time does Joe Public research the MACtion Tuesday night game before betting $20?
 
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MrTop

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WildBill said:
Maybe for you, but I bet you will just attack slow moving books and back anything that looks like steam. No?

The squares are just betting randomly anyways. How much time does Joe Public research the MACtion Tuesday night game before betting $20?
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slow moving books? very little of that todays game. There are more opinions by books than anything .
 
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