by Nolan Dalla
When I read this, I thought this had to be a joke.
This is like the Ford Motor Company bringing back the Edsel. It's New Coke. It's Sony BetaMax. It's remaking Ishtar.
No one wants to watch this clown's bullshit football league. Even those who are pissed at the NFL right now (they could fit inside a closet) won't become fans of teams filled with rejects who can't make it in the Canadian Football League or even get signed to the practice squads of real pro football teams. It's a goddamned sandlot league. Like the Pottstown Firebirds.
Some people never learn from history:
----- Ever heard of the World Football League? Remember the Hawaii Rainbows and the Shreveport Steamer?
----- Remember this bomb killed off by someone who's now famous? The United States Football League was ruined when Donald Trump took over in the second year and switched games to the Fall to go up against the NFL. He got slaughtered and bankrupted the league.
----- The short-lived United Football League, which at one point in 2011 had FOUR teams, lasted three years. It even had a team in Las Vegas. I watched one of the games on television with like 2,220 people in the stands. It looked like a high school game, without the bands. It was morbidly fascinating to watch.
----- The XFL was a laughingstock. They lost billions. Remember "He Hate Me?" Cringeworthy. In their second nationally-televised game from the Los Angeles Coliseum, the live feed went black. NBC nationally went to a test pattern because of a power failure. Apparently, a generator truck supplying the power for the broadcast parked outside the stadium powered down because someone at the XFL FORGOT TO PUT GAS IN THE TANK. True story.
Now, the same huckster who ran the XFL into the ground the first time is back for more punishment. On second thought -- perhaps this WILL BE fun to watch......fun to watch this bullshit league go down in flames. The only sad thing is -- lots of D-grade players who will think the XFL is a real opportunity will jump on this toy train running off a cliff, and likely be hurt.
Fact: No one wants to watch a bunch of nobodies wearing weird-colored uniforms playing football in third-rate stadiums in June.
The XFL is fucking garbage.
When I read this, I thought this had to be a joke.
This is like the Ford Motor Company bringing back the Edsel. It's New Coke. It's Sony BetaMax. It's remaking Ishtar.
No one wants to watch this clown's bullshit football league. Even those who are pissed at the NFL right now (they could fit inside a closet) won't become fans of teams filled with rejects who can't make it in the Canadian Football League or even get signed to the practice squads of real pro football teams. It's a goddamned sandlot league. Like the Pottstown Firebirds.
Some people never learn from history:
----- Ever heard of the World Football League? Remember the Hawaii Rainbows and the Shreveport Steamer?
----- Remember this bomb killed off by someone who's now famous? The United States Football League was ruined when Donald Trump took over in the second year and switched games to the Fall to go up against the NFL. He got slaughtered and bankrupted the league.
----- The short-lived United Football League, which at one point in 2011 had FOUR teams, lasted three years. It even had a team in Las Vegas. I watched one of the games on television with like 2,220 people in the stands. It looked like a high school game, without the bands. It was morbidly fascinating to watch.
----- The XFL was a laughingstock. They lost billions. Remember "He Hate Me?" Cringeworthy. In their second nationally-televised game from the Los Angeles Coliseum, the live feed went black. NBC nationally went to a test pattern because of a power failure. Apparently, a generator truck supplying the power for the broadcast parked outside the stadium powered down because someone at the XFL FORGOT TO PUT GAS IN THE TANK. True story.
Now, the same huckster who ran the XFL into the ground the first time is back for more punishment. On second thought -- perhaps this WILL BE fun to watch......fun to watch this bullshit league go down in flames. The only sad thing is -- lots of D-grade players who will think the XFL is a real opportunity will jump on this toy train running off a cliff, and likely be hurt.
Fact: No one wants to watch a bunch of nobodies wearing weird-colored uniforms playing football in third-rate stadiums in June.
The XFL is fucking garbage.
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