Evidence That Vince McMahon Is Planning To Revive The Most Radical Football League Ever — The XFL

Business Insider ^ | 12-24-2017 | Tyler Lauletta

[pepsionice]

I agree, the XFL chances have come and gone.

Now, if Vince was smart....he’d go and introduce Rugby to the American public, with glamor and hype pumped into it....which he is an expert.

[demsux]

Finance it through their own Draftkings type FF.

[wrcase]

Much better than any college team.

[Deplorable American1776]

Hartford might get a team...hope he does...

[Kazan]

Starting a competing, serious pro football league is a great idea. Reviving the XFL and all the nonsense that went along with it isn’t.

[Baynative]

[nonliberal]

Or Australian rules football. Part rugby, part American football, part bar fight.

[yawningotter]

Sometimes the threat is greater than the thing itself. If there is a legitimate threat of competition with the NFL, then it could bring about needed changes. Then again, we are talking about the NFL.

[Reily]

I imagine that prompted a Lombardi rant of galactic proportions!

[Peter W. Kessler]

I’ll watch it unless it’s some sort of Pay-Per-View scheme.

Then, I won’t.

[righttackle44]

Wait wait wait wait wait! I see no commitment from McMahon that he will demand respect for the National Anthem and the Stars and Stripes by the staffs and players. At what point would I want to watch a doofus leauge of potential orthopedic casualties and brain-damaged football players who are going to do the same thing the NFL is doing?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

no fair catches? - BenLurkin

Kickoffs and punts.

I’m not impressed with that change, and IMHO they should keep the rules requiring facemasks - which only date back to 1960 or so, but are de rigeur for avoiding (inobviously, but . . .) spinal cord injuries.

Otherwise, to make the roughness of the game less limited you would go back to immediate post-WWII rules. Meaning, for one thing, that you had to stop a runner, not just touch him before his knee hits the ground. I was very young then, and could not tell you precisely how the rule was enforced - but I know runners would crawl forward even after being tackled.