Posted on 01/27/2018 8:39:36 AM PST by 11th_VA
ang up those baseball cleats, Timmy, and start getting into football shape.
I’m talking to you, Tim Tebow, because you will no doubt be the No. 1 draft pick and starting quarterback of the inevitable Orlando team when the XFL reinvents itself and begins play once again in 2020.
WWE founder and chairman Vince McMahon announced Thursday he is going to re-start the XFL — the league McMahon and NBC unveiled for one forgettable season back in 2001.
McMahon, obviously seeing an opening and wanting to take financial advantage of the NFL’s sagging popularity, struck all the right chords during his announcement on Thursday.
Unlike the NFL, McMahon said the new XFL would NOT give players a forum to take a personal stance on social issues while on the playing field (Translation: No kneeling during the national anthem), nor would XFL teams be allowed to sign any player with a criminal record (Translation: No SEC players allowed … bada-bing!).
Actually, at least one former SEC player will be welcomed into the league, and that, of course is Tebow.
"You want someone who does not have any criminality associated whatsoever with them,” McMahon said. “Even if you have a DUI you will not play in the XFL. So that will probably eliminate some (players). Not all of them. If Tim Tebow wants to play, he can very well play."
And what better place for Timmy Terrific to play than Orlando — smack, dab in the middle of a state where he is from and where he first became cultural icon. Although it’s not been announced that Orlando will get an XFL franchise, you know it’s going to happen. After all, we are the biggest market in America without an NFL team...
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Vinnie Mac needs Tim Tebow a lot more than Tebow needs him. I can't see Tebow signing on with the XFL at this point in his life.
He’ll be 32. Good news for him is even at that advanced age the league will still probably fold before he retires. In a lot of ways including him is saying that Vince didn’t understand why the XFL failed the first time, and won’t see this failure coming. Washed up washed out not good enough football players don’t make exciting football. Football’s not like hockey where 2 mediocre teams can still play an entertaining game because they’re evenly matched. Mediocre football involves a lot of incomplete passes and punting, it’s boring, no matter how even the matchup. Watching Tebow hit the receivers less than half the time, and then those bad receivers dropping half of those won’t entertain. XFL 2.0 is doomed from the start.
Between College and NFL, there is already an over-saturation of football as it is.
What a huge expense preparing to play in cities that don't currently host teams. And what a waste, when you have multimillion dollar venues, already built, being used only one day a week, six months a year. If NFL and XFL could cooperate (a big if, I'll grant you) they could share the cost and split the revenue.
Some will say if the two leagues have to share a city's ticket buyers, both will starve. They may be right...
Isn’t Tom Brady 41 ?
Toms been doing his job the whole time.
No matter how much you like Tebow, he ain’t no Tom Brady.
Dude, ESPN would lose there sh!t over that. I’d buy season tickets.
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