Posted on 01/26/2018 10:10:48 AM PST by ShivaFan
It was just announced on FOX Business that Vince McMahon will renew a football league called the XFL which will compete with the NFL. The XFL League will be "family friendly" and require ALL players to stand for the National Anthem or be thrown out.
I am excited about this, and definetly will be an XFL fan. I no longer watch or buy tickets for NFL games. The XFL is exactly what I am looking for.
Is it a Fall or Spring league ?
Between college and pro, there’s way too much football as it is.
Im in.
Don’t know yet. McMahon calls the shots and it is breaking news - exciting news in my opinion. This time it is going to work, and why? Because it will pull folks like me back into football. Tbe timing is perfect.
I hope he makes billions!
Publicity Stunt. Vince McMahon isn’t going up against the NFL. The NFL is a fed.gov protected entity that pays little in taxes and has almost complete “ direct access” to television
I love the free market.
Needs to compete with the NFL on Sundays. No way I’m giving up Saturday college ball.
Isn’t the free market wonderful?
Publicity Stunt. Vince McMahon isn’t going up against the NFL. The NFL is a fed.gov protected entity that pays little in taxes and has almost complete “ direct access” to television
Time to change the tax status.
This league was garbage. Everything from Opie & Anthony’s pre-game show, to the games which were supposed to be more exciting than the NFL. The league was full of NFL rejects.
As others point out, there’s a lot of football out there already.
If he makes the NFL look bad, that’s fine by me.
“Publicity Stunt. Vince McMahon isn’t going up against the NFL. The NFL is a fed.gov protected entity that pays little in taxes and has almost complete “ direct access” to television”
If only McMahon had a high level contact in the Fedgov who felt the same way he did about the NFL....
This is great. I can’t wait.I hate the NFL. I will never watch another game but if he tells these “son’s of bitches’ that they are fired if they disrespect this country and prohibits steroids instead of averting their gaze and enforce it with weekly mandatory testing— IM IN!!
What he has now is a market.
There was an article about five years ago to the effect that seeing flags or other patriotic symbolism tended to make people think favorably of Republicans rather than Democrats. So it is not too amazing to think that Democrats might incline to ignore/disrespect the Stars and Stripes.There are a few black Republicans, but take them as they run, blacks are “liberals.” Thus, take them as they run, NFL players are Democrats - and Roger Godell is a Democrat, too. So you might as well say that the “NFL” is the Democrat Football League.
Logically, then, what you are seeing when someone tries to institute a football league with overt nationalistic overtones is, de facto, a Republican football league.
Yes, it’s just time for the NFL to lose their antitrust exemption and their monopoly. :)
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