Why was the XFL a fail?
>>64596338
don't know what that is lad
Stupid ball
Stupid uniforms
Stupid team names
Stupid player names
Stupid replacement for the coin toss
Stupid announcers
Basically like a 13 year old wrestling fan said "what if I took everything about the WWE and applied it to the NFL!"
Only instead of a 13 year old it was Vince McMahon.
If it was literally just standard fucking football in the off season, it could have been the band-aid for our summer woes. But instead they had to make it as juvenile and stupid as humanly possible.
Just look at the fucking logo
because the players sucked
because mandrama narratives
because injuries
Turns out you can overestimate the stupidity of the American public
>>64596440
elaborate lad. what was stupid about the ball/kit/coin toss etc? literally never heard of this but it sounds like a laugh t b h
no real talent, it was basically an amateur league with a couple of gimmicks
Sub par talent
Stupid rules
Adding retarded WWE soap opera shit to the locker room.
Trying too hard to be edgy and different from the NFL
>>64596489
to decide who gets the ball to start they would put the ball at the 50 yard line and have a guy from each team sprint and whoever ended up with it got to pick
both players separated their shoulders on the first play of the season
It wasn't a fail. Football fans failed the XFL.
>>64596489
instead of a coin toss, they basically played the beginning of dodgeball where everyone rushes to grab the ball from the center. one of the players got a season ending injury on the first play of the first game because of this
>>64596489
XFL games had no coin toss. Teams had two players scramble catch a ball in the middle of the field and whoever won got to chose to defer or receive. The first injury in the league occurred during this play. Some fag ended up dislocating his shoulder and missed the entire season.
>>64596486
kek
Playing in the spring while aiming too high. Unless they started out with high contracts that would lure players away from the NFL fringe, anyone who thought they had a chance of playing big time fall ball wouldn't bother showing in the spring. UFL had the right idea but they blew it, and now no one even remembers they existed.
>>64596590
>>64596570
>>64596537
kek. as an outsider with no knowledge of nfl at all it sounds funny as fuck t b h. although if someone started an off-season comedy cartoon football league here i doubt i'd be into it
>>64596338
Jews
>>64596338
I don't have any interest in NFL but I was all over mandrama when this started, and yet this is the first time I have heard of it, strange.
The real answer is the NFL took out the xfl because it had a little bit of steam behind it. This wasn't one of these shitty pro-am leagues or arena league football. As you can see in the comments...people actually watched the XFL and remember details about it. Good or bad it had viewership. To this day people still remember "He Hate Me". Arena Football was way to gimmicky to be watchable. XFL had some gimmicks but it was still close enough to regular football that it was seen as a threat to the Shield.
>>64596714
he hate me is the only player anyone remembers though
>>64596714
Fuck off faggot no one watched this shit. I didn't even know about it until this post and I promise you no other superior californians watched it either
>>64596661
I think it had huge ratings the first week but by the championship ratings were down like 90%
>>64596714
A lot more people remember watching it than actually watching it. May have just tuned in for a game. Ratings were pretty shoddy, and so was actual attendance.
>>64596661
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioh3dXJnzws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvN4mOkZ3fo
lmao
>>64596338
>mfw the rumours about Vince wanting to buy Newcastle end up being true and he turns them into an even bigger meme than they already are
>>64596847
no way, hosé!
>>64596714
This >>64596647
UFL was actually very, very close to being a true feeder league to the NFL, but they fucked themselves around the time of the almost-lockout and never recovered.
>22 replies
>no he hate me yet
wtf /sp/
>>64596912
>put the accent over the e
>still spells Jose with an H.
nice try.
>>64596798
still. The nfl didn't want it getting steam. The XFL was on a large enough tv platform that it was a memorable blip on the radar. I'm not saying the XFL was decent ratings, just there was enough there to raise eyebrows. And Vince has proven that he can grow a business. Just imagine a couple other billionaires investing in that league.
>>64597014
que porque hóse?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VYhjpYKlWms
>Outlels
>>64596983
Absolute madman
>>64597098
>when you meme so hard the whole league turns into a meme
I'd watch it.
>>64597098
that nigga had a durag on under his helmet. I've never seen that level of niggadry.
that one nigga name on his jersey was "J-Roc".
Vince was letting niggas be niggas.
Vince McMahon was trying to save football. America let him down, and more importantly, themselves down.
Remember the XFL next time you find yourself cursing the refs for too many bullshit pass interference calls, or when you can't even have 2 minutes of gametime before having a commercial, or when everything turns pink in October because of a scam "charity"
very related:
https://youtu.be/3zXJQ-3fmyU
>>64596690
That becomes so much funnier when you say it in a growly, over-the-top Vince voice. Which I did in my head.
"Jeeeeeeeeeeews!"
>>64596489
lel
sounds dank af
Part of it was the pay structure.
It was some performance based thing with a base of something like $60k/year.
You couldn't get top talent basically telling them
"hey, if you're on a shitty team, you're not going to make shit"
>>64598707
And that guy that got injured in the pregame scramble? I remember the XFL announcers glorifying the fact that he wouldn't get paid
>>64598733
Come to think of it, the XFL is what the NFL owners wish the NFL would be, if only it weren't for that meddling players association.
>>64596338
>Vince just purchased WCW
>Only competition on Monday Night is the NFL
>Vince being the king of bad decisions decides to take them on in the offseason with sub-par players.
>Hype train begins
>First game is a sellout with huge ratings
>2nd week loses 50% of viewers due to games being babby level football
>each consecutive week ratings decrease by 50%
>Jon Stewart jokes that because each week they lose 50% of viewers, they'll always have at least 1 person watching
>Vince loses millions on this stupid league
>Books Shane and Stephanie in a loser inherits the XFL cage match
>Simpsons shit on it a year later.
>In 10 years, WWE films releases a documentary completely rewriting history calling XFL ahead of its time and declaring Vince McMahon a genius.
Bravo Vince
>>64596870
>instead of being filled with frenchies it got filled with americans and they flopped even harder
>>64596504
>Adding retarded WWE soap opera shit to the locker room.
This I don't remember. Got any examples? I could use a laugh.
>Tommy Maddox is the only person in the history of forever that will have an XFL championship and Superbowl ring
>>64596338
mainly the ball which called the stupidest plays
otherwise it would have been another AFL
>>64596799
wew watched for 30 minutes until snapping out of it
Who wins between the LA Xtreme and Alabama Crimson Tide?
>>64599042
btfo Brady babbies
>>64599451
Remember the sideline reporting?
What do you think of the game so far, Tony (Siragusa)?
Siragusa: "New York needs to get their heads out of their asses."
>>64598948
I remember there was a feud between the NY/NJ coach and Jesse Ventura
>>64599452
Which Alabama? This year they're not great. Alabama from a couple years ago could put points on the board. This and last year's tOSU could keep it in question for a half.
>Vince McMahon's original plan was to purchase the Canadian Football League (after the CFL initially approached him about purchasing the Toronto Argonauts),[6] while NBC was moving ahead at the time with Time Warner to create a football league of their own.[7]
>Vince McMahon's original plan was to purchase the Canadian Football League
>>64598442
XFL would be right up with there with that scam charity shit if it was still around.
>>64599776
dot com boom, wwf.com was the one stop shop for all your softcore divas porn needs.
>>64596486
>audibly chuckled
It was too retarded.
A lot of people wanted it to succeed because even then people were starting to hate the NFL, but it was just too trashy and dumb. Now with all the concussion shit you could never do it.
>>64596714
Everyone remembers the first play of the first game. After that their ratings fell dramatically.
>this was considered controversial
>>64600125
>Having chimp cheerleaders
Why even humor them?
>>64600057
A new league could still have things like endzone celebrations and non preferential treatment for QBs/WRs, but yeah, old football is gone forever.
The only thing that this pic needs to be more 90s is a copy of Windows 98
But the cheerleaders man.
>>64596338
The sad thing is that there were actually some good ideas hidden under the piles edge. I'm particularly a fan of shortened play clocks. Fuck 40 seconds. That's a god damned eternity.
>>64596537
Only one player seperated their shoulder m8
>>64600197
>the cheerleaders
>>64600125
4th from left is like 50 years old what le fugg
>>64600239
Oh well it was definitely a great idea then
The real reason the XFL failed was because the quality of the actual football being played was awful at the very beginning when it mattered the most to impress fans. It was minor league as fuck and no amount of marketing hype and gimmick rules could mask this.
>>64600252
pamela looks fucking scary
The stupid nicknames on jerseys, wrestlers cutting promos for it, mediocre talent worse than even NFL Europe.
Gee I wonder. NFL Europe would actually probably have the best chance of succeeding because of the name attachment.
>>64600348
>The winner of the Super Bowl and the winner of NFL Yurope will never play a winners cup game.
>All those burger/yuro bants that will never happen.
FAKE FUMBLE
ONLY WHITES COULD DO MEME PLAYS THAT ACTUALLY WORK
the best part about this is that apparently the players who were paid $3k a game didn't even get health insurance. i wonder how much it would cost to buy it yourself if you tell them you work for a no-rules football league, more than the season's salary?
>>64596714
Vince McMahon pls
Because it started off with different rules than the NFL (crazy rush to decide who gets the ball instead of coin flips, full contact on WR's etc) but eventually gave up all the rules for player safety so it just became the NFL but with no talent
It was ahead of its time.
thinly veiled /wwe/ general?
>>64601064
nope. just read about vince on wikipedia and wanted to ask /sp/ about his xfl league.
not a wrestling fan desu
>>64596338
>Why was the XFL a fail?
Big Match John wasn't there to save it.
>>64596647
I remember based JP Losman wrecking shit in the UFL
>>64596799
>17:36
>Cringe locker room interview
Turned it off there.
>>64600502
>XFL talks about the passion the players have for the game of football, implying they hardly care about the money
>Championship game is marketed as a million dollar game where the winning team gets a million dollars
It was a failure because it was gimmicky and trashy more than anything. Like that entire trash TV era of Jerry Springer, WWF, etc was basically dead by 2001.
I think the attendance and general buzz about it showed there was a market for another football league at the time but the XFL basically made it such a shitshow that any league trying now is immediately put in it's same shit shadow.
>>64600180
wrong fucking decade
>>64596714
Is that you again Vince? You need to stay out of these threads.
>>64599042
Am I the only one that would be willing to pay tens of dollars to purchase an XFL championship ring? I would get that thing fitted and wear it everywhere.
no fair catch is pretty fucking stupid.
>>64602309
>no fair catch is pretty fucking stupid
It ended up being the CFL halo rule. It felt like there were halo violation flags every third punt.
It was *really* fucking stupid.
The coverage was basically attitude-era stupid. They tried to make it what Vince considered "sexy". And the D had a big advantage on the offense.
NBC wanted out quick. But IIRC, live attendance did pretty well all season.
I never watched any XFL I just remember the commercials during WWE aboot the slutty cheerleaders
>>64605592
Not really, only in a few cities, and they did the classic trick of having the entire crowd sit on one side of the stadium for the TV cameras.
I'd like to remind everyone that retards on /spol/ are going to vote for Trump even though he single handedly destroyed the USFL because he had a temper tantrum over the fact that it'd never be as big as the NFL.
>>64605644
What is it with football leagues in America?
Can you create your own just like a franchise or business and see where it gets?
>>64601589
>not realizing that culturally, the late 90s and early aughts were the same.
Found the anon who was born after 1998.
>>64605857
It's called capitalism
>>64605914
I am well fucking aware.
That's why referring to stuff from 1999 as "90s" is not really accurate
I remember watching the first game. >Hyping that shit for months.
>All my friends are excited as hell.
>watching with my cousin and uncle.
>first play, dude fucks his shoulder.
>next play, a defensive lineman jumps the snap and clotheslines the quarterback.
>penalty.
>"this is gonna be awesome"!
>next couple hours it's as close to Special Olympics football as the world will most likely see.
>never watch again.
Shit was so cash.
>>64605857
No one's figured out how to yet. Big money people either invest in the NFL, or are boosters to their colleges. The UFL was close, but they scared off legitimate investors because the ownership group wanted a bigger slice of the pie when the NFL threatened to lock out and drive players to their league. FXFL is pretty much dead on arrival, New USFL is never arriving at all. Takes a LOT of money to start up a new league. Patience, too.
>>64600125
controversial cause there all donkey fucking ugly
>Creating a cringe thread on /sp/
My sides are in orbit at the XFLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioh3dXJnzws
>>64605644
>caring this much about a meme league
You must be from some irrelevant city that had a team
The XFL by the final game was actually pretty good since they got rid of the dumb rules and stopped shoehorning in wrestlers doing promos on the sidelines and just let the game play out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuJvNBfFLGk
>>64605857
You can create your own separate league, but the problem is the NFL is way too powerful to take on directly. This leads to new football leagues having their season during the spring, when there isn't any NFL or NCAAF. The biggest problems are attracting decent players to the new league, getting TV deals with relevant networks and essentially creating a new market in each city you put a team. You need a lot of fucking money to get this done, and people simply put aren't willing to invest in something that is most likely going to bust.
I still remember visiting a sporting goods store in my town about 5 years after the XFL folded, and they still had shelves full of official XFL footballs.
>>64596338
Too many memes
>>64606965
>Final game
>pretty good
>38-6
Top Kek
>>64596925
How?
>>64607192
They started getting some momentum in the second season, had money coming in, had owners coming in, had the NFL's respect.
NFL has a lockout looming. Not sure if they're going to play, players start talking about the UFL. UFL brass gets the idea that they might be the only show in town, and tries to screw with the new owners and investors by getting greedy with the potential windfall. Scares off Joe Theismann, scares off Jim Speros (CFL owner), scares off Red McCombs (rich Texan), scares off some other owner in Portland, scares off Joe Moglia (coach/billionaire). NFL didn't lockout, league never recovered.
>Source: I worked for them
>>64600335
That's ya girl
>>64606036
Wow you're a moron.
>Tfw was at first xfl game
>still have my he hate me jersey
G-go Outlaws
>>64598870
>Ironically they were more beloved because they ended up being Brittier than the actual Brits.
>>64608128
I'd like to buy that from you.
>>64608128
How old have you been back then?
>>64600282
Nope, still a bad idea but the facts are accurate now.
>>64607080
This. The only exception is the AFL which went head-to-head because it was run by a bunch of rich kids pissed off about getting rejected by the NFL. The deep grudge they all held gave the AFL all the time & money it needed, plus it was buoyed by marketing innovations and wild pass-oriented offenses that ran up the score.
Eventually the owners got their wish when the leagues merged. Supposedly the deal got done behind Al Davis's back because he wanted to kill the NFL off & replace it all together. Don't mess with billionaires, man.
>>64596440
>Stupid replacement for the coin toss
>game should be determined by luck, not skill
>>64622197
Except that the XFL's replacement WAS stupid and led to injuries and football has always required a degree of luck.
>>64622197
>skill
skill too requires some luck
Give him the Premier League
Seriously.
>>64628560
kek.
image mcmahon and moyes together in some /wwe/-sricted reality arguing about soccer
>>64600252
>this is considered a 10 in america
>>64596983
Still remember that first interview
Who...who hates you?
He do! He do
>>64596338
It was nothing personnel..kid...
>>64596764
Tommy Maddox.
>I can't remember any of my hometown team players.
>Go Rage.
Lol opie and anthony were like the half time hosts.
>>64596338
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrg7w-ETjL0
The real question is... Does anyone remember this?
>>64640414
God slam ball was fucking awesome
No idea why it failed
>>64640449
It's actually become really popular in China. There are like university teams, Slam Ball gyms all over and they have plans to spread the popularity all over Asia.
>>64640414
>>64640449
its on tv at random hours on my CW affiliate , there's a league in china
>>64640414
God yes. I still have my ball, and my poster, and my DVD. It's too beautiful to be forgotten.
Fun fact: The NY/NJ Hitmen stole their logo from a high school in North Texas. Or maybe the high school stole it from them, who knows.
>>64597718
And it was his downfall
>>64640414
THIS WAS THE FUCKING THE SHIT YOOOOOOO
BRING THIS SHIT BACK
>>64640414
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOg2PNfimEY
this game is sick
no wonder the chinks love it
>>64642121
Why is there no 3 point shooting line?
>>64596440
Actually for all of its failures the XFL had good enough ideas that they got adopted after the league flopped.
>>64596440
>Stupid uniforms
>Stupid team names
I still would like to own a Hitmen jersey.
>>64599042
What about Bobby "Loo" Singh and Ron Carpenter?
Lifetime Demons fan here.
Bring back the "no rules!" XFL
>>64596440
This. I'd also add the fact that the XFL promoted how LITTLE their players were paid.
That isn't exactly going to put asses in seats.
>>64596338
BROS..
HIS NAME?!
DICK
BUTKUS
GET IT?!
DICK BUTT KISS
>AHHAHAHAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHA
>go to investigate this
>the official website still fucking exists
holy fugg http://www.officialxfl.com/
