The XFL is a professional American soccer league that played the season only in 2001. As originally understood, XFL is operated as a joint venture between the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) and NBC. XFL is conceived as an outdoor soccer league that will take place during the off-season NFL, and is promoted as having fewer rules and encouraging rough play than any other major league. The league has eight teams in two divisions, including major markets and those not served directly by the NFL, such as Birmingham, Las Vegas, Memphis, and Orlando. XFL is operated as a single entity (unlike most other professional sports leagues, operating under the franchise model), with all the teams owned by the center by the league.
Co-owner NBC serves as the main XFL game broadcaster, along with UPN and TNN. XFL game presentations feature elements of sports entertainment inspired by professional wrestling, including hot and kayfabe, cheerleaders with costumes, and occasional use of WWF personalities (such as Jesse Ventura, Jim Ross, and Jerry Lawler) as part of a joint on-air crew comment sportsman and veteran footballer. Live also shows an extensive use of airborne skikam and in-player microphone to provide additional perspective of the game.
The first night of the game brought television viewing higher than NBC projected, but the ratings swiftly dipped. The league gained a negative reputation for its relationship with professional wrestling and WWF, the overall quality of the game, and the distinctly different presentations of major professional networks and college football broadcasts of that era (though with technical and air innovations that would later become regular in football broadcasting). Lorne Michaels, NBC's long-running executive producer of Saturday Night Live, was also critical of XFL when the game entered double overtime causing the show to be postponed until midnight on the east coast (a push to speed up play, otherwise precede the end of the game entirely if not completed at a certain time, to minimize disruption to SNL ). NBC and WWF both lost $ 35 million on their $ 100 million investment in the inaugural league season.
Despite committing to broadcast two seasons, NBC withdrew from broadcasting contracts for XFL after its inaugural season, citing poor viewers. While WWF owner Vince McMahon initially stated that XFL would continue without NBC, and proposed the addition of expansion teams, unfavorable league demands by UPN accelerated the XFL crash, and the league stopped fully operating in May 2001 a month after the championship game. Los Angeles Xtreme is the first and only champion of XFL. McMahon admits that the league is a "colossal failure".
McMahon retains control of the XFL brand after the league has ceased operations, and on January 25, 2018, it announces the return of XFL with a 2020 launch target. The awakening will be owned by McMahon's Alpha Entertainment, a company separated from WWE.
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Created as a 50-50 joint venture between NBC and a subsidiary of WWF, WWE Properties International, Inc. with the company name "XFL, LLC", XFL is created as a "single entity league;" instead of the franchise model used by the NFL and other major leagues, or hybrid models where investors in the league are given team operations (as used in Major League Soccer), XFL uniformly owns and operates all its teams as one company, without the owner individual. Vince McMahon's initial plan was to buy the Canadian Football League (after the CFL initially approached him about purchasing Toronto Argonauts) and "have it migrate south," while NBC, who had lost their old broadcasting rights to the NFL American Football Conference (AFC) to CBS on in 1998, moved forward with Time Warner to create their own soccer league.
The league concept was first announced by league commissioner Tyler Schueck on February 3, 2000. XFL was originally conceived to build on the success of NFL and professional wrestling. It combines an NFL scoring system with kayfabe and WWF action. Because WWF, at that time, in the midst of its Attitude Era, the XFL presentation will also reflect that approach to football, with an emphasis on sex and violence. It was hyped as "real" soccer without penalty for rudeness and with fewer rules in general. The game will feature players and trainers with microphones and cameras in the huddle and in the locker room. The stadium displays the junk-talking public address announcers and the scantily clad cheerleaders who are encouraged to date the performers. Instead of throwing pre-game coins, XFL officials put the ball on the ground and let players from each team scramble to determine who receives the kickoff option. The exercise was dubbed "The Coin Coin Toss" by commentators, and one famous player separated his shoulders in the first fight, missing the rest of the season.
XFL features extensive television coverage, with three games broadcast weekly on NBC, UPN, and TNN. To accommodate this, he puts his four teams in the four largest US media markets: New York City/North Jersey, Chicago, San Francisco Bay Area, and Greater Los Angeles (this is during the NFL sidelined for 21 years from Los Angeles metro area). The remaining four teams are placed in markets that previously hosted teams in premier league and/or rival leagues: Birmingham, Memphis, Las Vegas, and Orlando. All XFL markets except Las Vegas have hosted teams in the United States Football League in the 1980s; Las Vegas, along with Birmingham and Memphis, has hosted a short-lived CFL team in the 1990s.
XFL chooses an unusual name for its team, which mostly refers to the uncontrolled image of madness (Maniax, Rage, Xtreme, Demons) or criminal activity (Enforcement, Rejection, Crime and the Birmingham Boom). After the anger of Birmingham residents who noted that Birmingham has a famous "blast" history, including the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963 and the bombing of Eric Rudolph 1998 from a local abortion clinic, the XFL changed the Birmingham team name to a more tame "Birmingham Thunderbolts" (later shortened to "Bolt").
Contrary to popular belief, "X" in XFL does not stand for "extreme", as in "eXtreme Football League". When the league was first held in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for "Xtreme Football League"; However, there is already a league in the formation at the same time as that name, and the promoter wants to make sure everyone knows that "X" does not really stand for anything (although McMahon will comment that "if the NFL represents 'No Fun League' , XFL will stand for 'e x tra f un l eague' "). Another Xtreme Football League, also organized in 1999, joined the AF2 Arena Football League before previously playing its first game.
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Draft
The only major design for the league lasted for a three-day period from October 28, 2000 to October 30, 2000. A total of 475 players were selected initially, with 65 additional players later selected in an additional draft on December 29, 2000.
Team
Divisi Timur
- Birmingham Thunderbolts
- Chicago Enforcers
- New York/New Jersey Hitmen
- Orlando Rage
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- Las Vegas Outlaws
- Los Angeles Xtreme
- Memphis Maniax
- San Francisco Demons
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The opening game of the XFL took place on February 3, 2001, one year after the league was announced, less than a week after the NFL Super Bowl. The first match was between New York/New Jersey Hitmen and Las Vegas Outlaws at the Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The regular league season structure is shaped so that each team plays a team in its own division twice this season, coming home and going (the same as the National Football League) and playing against the team in another one-time division. The season runs ten weeks, without weeks.
The western league division is much more competitive than the east, with a record of four teams ranging from 7-3 (to the eventual champion Los Angeles) to 4-6 (Las Vegas, whose final finish after losing their last three games ended a game out of the playoff spot). In the East, New York and Chicago were both hampered by a slow start and ineffective start before making a personnel change that improved their game, while Orlando, under midfielder Jeff Brohm, bounced to first place, winning his first six games before Brohm suffered an ending career. injury and the team suffered a setback (the team went 2-2 in his absence). Birmingham started the season 2-1 before the injury (and fierce competition, due to two wins against New York and Chicago) left the team missing the last seven games. Injuries are a major issue in the league: only three of the eight league quarterbacks opened on opening day - Tommy Maddox from Los Angeles, Mike Pawlawski from San Francisco, and Jim Druckenmiller from Memphis - still a starter at the end of the season. Birmingham and Las Vegas are both in their third quarterback at the end of the ten-week season.
The top two teams in each division qualify for the playoffs. To avoid having to play each other three times in a season, the league sets up a playoff semifinal round so the match will feature teams from opposing divisions: the eastern division champion (Orlando) hosts the runners-up of the western division (San Francisco), as well for western champions and runners-up east (Los Angeles and Chicago, respectively). Los Angeles and San Francisco each won their playoffs to advance to the XFL championship.
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fieldThe opening game ended in a 19-0 win for Outlaws, and was watched on NBC by some 14 million viewers. During the broadcast, NBC switched to a game between Orlando Rage and Chicago Enforcers, which was a closer contest than the explosion that occurred in Las Vegas. The opening night drew 9.5 Nielsen rating.
Although the week-opening game really ranks twice as prompted by NBC to advertisers (and more viewers than Pro Bowl 2001), the audience dropped sharply to 4.6 in just one week, and eventually dropped to the very level small.
The next problem is that XFL itself is the brainchild of Vince McMahon, a man mocked by a major sports journalist because of the stigma attached to professional wrestling as "fake"; many journalists even jokingly speculated if there was a rigged league game, although this sort of thing was never seriously investigated.
Even the longtime NBC sports broadcaster Bob Costas participated in mocking the league. Dick Ebersol deliberately allowed Costas and other NBC Sports veterans to opt out of the league's network range (with the exception of NBC analyst NBC) long gone, Mike Adamle, his coverage was largely led by the younger ones. and professional wrestling figures), and Costas in particular dislikes McMahon's approach to sport. In an appearance at Late Night with Conan O'Brien in February 2001, after the second week of the league played, Costas joked: "It must be at least a decade since I first brooded," Why does not anyone combine high school football mediocre with a tacky strip club? 'Finally, someone takes my idea and runs it. "Costas interviewed McMahon for an episode of his HBO show On the Record when the league was down: McMahon's defensive attitude towards Costas was then referred to as accelerating the death of the league.
2001 standings
Awards
- Most Valuable Players: Tommy Maddox, QB, Los Angeles Xtreme
- Million Dollar MVP Game: Jose Cortez, K, Los Angeles Xtreme
- Best Coach: Galen Hall, Orlando Rage
Leader stats
- Rushing Efforts: 153 James Bostic (Birmingham Thunderbolt)
- Rushing Yards: 800 John Avery (Chicago Enforcers)
- Hurry Touchdown: 7 Derrick Clark (Orlando Rage)
- Received Catch: 67 Jeremaine Copeland (Los Angeles Xtreme)
- Receiving Yards: 828 Stepfret Williams (Birmingham Thunderbolts)
- Receive Touchdown: 8 Darnell McDonald (Los Angeles Xtreme)
- Passing Attempts: 342 Tommy Maddox (Los Angeles Xtreme)
- Passing Completions: 196 Tommy Maddox (Los Angeles Xtreme)
- Passing Yards: 2,186 Tommy Maddox (Los Angeles Xtreme)
- Over Touchdown: 18 Tommy Maddox (Los Angeles Xtreme)
- Passing Interceptions: 10 Brian Kuklick (Orlando Rage)
- Interceptions: 5 Corey Ivy (Chicago Enforcers)
- Quarterback Sacks: 7 Antonio Edwards and Kelvin Kinney (both Las Vegas Outlaws)
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A The Citrus Bowl, which has a total capacity of 65,438 at the time, has a closed top deck for XFL matches.
Changes to XFL rules
Despite boasts of the "light-weight" game and the universally negative review of mainstream sports media from the start, XFL plays a recognizable 11-man open-football brand, apart from an opening game sprint to determine ownership and some other changes. , some modified during the current season. The league coach vetoed the proposal to eliminate an unqualified recipient (allowing each player to receive feedback ahead) in mid-season, with the note that the change would be too radical.
Grass stadium
The league deliberately avoided putting teams in the stadium with synthetic grass, which at that time had a bad reputation both because it was unsightly and more dangerous to play compared to the natural grass. The league requirements for grasslands automatically rule out the use of a domed stadium as there is no stadium capable of accommodating grasslands in the US in 2001 (the only retractable roof stadium was then used specifically for Major League Baseball; the first retractable roofing stadium for use The NFL was not completed until Reliant Stadium opened for Houston Texans expansion in 2002). In addition, each XFL field is identically designed, with no individual team branding in the field. Each end zone and 50-yard line is adorned with the XFL logo.
Most of the league stadiums are football's special facilities; the only exception is the San Francisco Pacific Bell Park (home of the San Francisco Giants) built primarily for baseball, but (unlike many newer baseball-specific stadiums) can accommodate football. Two XFL stadiums (the Giants Stadium and Soldier Field) were also NFL stadiums at the time, while two others (the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium) had previously hosted an NFL game; The NFL will return to the Coliseum when the Rams return to Los Angeles. The remaining fields were used regularly as a college football venue at the time.
The home team at each stadium are required to sit in front of the press box to be seen by television cameras. Due to the odd field dimensions in San Francisco, the teams that play there are allowed to occupy the same place.
The provisions of the all-grass field caused the league to pass through some of the country's largest markets, including Houston and Philadelphia, as they did not have a big grass stadium in 2001. In the league two of the northernmost markets, Chicago and New York/New Jersey (the latter played in Giants Stadium during a short window where the artificial grass is replaced by natural grass, a combination of all-grass needs, winter season play and the fact that XFL follows shortly after the NFL has used both fields for one full season (in the case of Giants Stadium, two seasons since the Giants and Jets shared the stadium, the Giants also hosted two playoffs after the 2000 season) causing significant damage to the playing field, at Soldier Field Chicago, wearing on the field in such a way that in mid-season, the midfield logo of cross rivals the Chicago Bears Conqueror league is clearly visible amid the stretch of land and grass mat i.
Within a year after the death of XFL, artificial surfaces of "next generation" (which resemble grass in appearance, taste, and security of players) will be introduced in professional football. Giants Stadium will have a next generation artificial surface installed in 2003; Soldier Field has been extensively renovated in 2002 but retained its grassland.
Opening randomization
Replacing a coin toss at the start of each game is an event in which one player from each team struggles to recover a ball 20 yards away to determine ownership. Both players marched side by side on one of the 30-yard lines, with the ball placed on the 50-yard line. At the whistle, the two players ran towards the ball and tried to gain control; whichever player gains the first possession is allowed to choose ownership (as if he has won a coin toss in another league). XFL's first injury was the result of the opening bout; Orlando free safety Hassan Shamsid-Deen suffered a separate shoulder before 33-29 Rage opening season victory over Chicago Enforcers at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium on 3 February. He eventually lost the rest of the campaign.
No PAT (point after touchdown) kick
After touchdown there is no additional point kick, because XFL's perception that the extra-point kick is a "guarantee point." To get points after touchdown, the team runs a single attack from a two-yard line (functionally identical to the NFL/NCAA/CFL two-point conversion, but only for one point). In the playoffs, two-point and three-point conversions have been added to the rules. The team can select bonus points by playing the conversions further away from the goal line.
This rule, as originally implemented, is similar to the "Point of Action" of the WFL, and is identical to the 1968 "Point of Pressure" experiment by the NFL and the American Football League, used only in pre-season preseason games that year.
In 2015, NFLs, CFLs and other professional leagues will address the issue of "guarantee points" by moving extra kicks back to the 15-yard line and 25 yards, respectively, thus making the same long-range kick (taking into account the NFL position of the goal in finish line, and goal CFL positioned on goal line).
Overtime
The bonds are completed in the same way as the NCAA and the current CFL game, with at least one ownership by each team, starting from the 20-yard line of the opponent. There's a difference: there's no first down - teams have to score in four retroactives, and teams that have first possession on overtime can not try field goals until fourth down. If the team scores in less than four times down, the second team will only have the same number of downs to match or beat the result. If the score is still bound after one overtime period, the team that plays second due to a violation in the first OT will start attacking in the second PL (similar to the college football overtime rules). The process is repeated until the winner is determined - unlike the CFL and NFL, the game can not end in a bond even in the regular season.
Bump and run
XFL allows full collision and run coverage at the start of the season. Defensive backs are allowed to hit wide receivers any time before the quarterback releases the ball, provided the blow comes from the front or side.
After the fourth week of the season, the bumps and runs are limited to the first five yards of the soccer practice line (similar to the NFL and CFL) in an effort to increase offensive production.
Movement forward
Unlike the NFL, but like the World Football League and Arena Football League before, XFL allows one offensive player to move towards the line of soccer practice once he is outside the tackle.
Punting rule
XFL imposed a number of restrictions on punting that do not exist in most other league rules, a net effect that makes punts in XFL operate under rules more like kickoff. The purpose of this provision is to continue playing after the ball is kicked, prompting the team to kick to make the ball played and the receiving team to run it back. For this effect:
- Being out of bounds is a ten-yard penalty, effectively banning the usual coffin corner kick at most other game levels.
- Every kick that travels at least 25 yards over the line of soccer practice can be recovered by the kicking team. So, instead of letting the team kick the ball as usual in other leagues, the recipient team is asked to try and return a kick or lose possession.
- The kicking team is banned from coming within five yards of a return kick back before he has the ball. This rule, known as the halo rule in college football and also common in Canadian football, is dubbed the "danger zone" in XFL. (Coming within five meters or less of this "danger zone" is a five-yard penalty, much in the same tone as the "no yard" punishment in Canadian football.)
- A fair haul is not recognized. (The "unfair capture" rule is one of the most hypnotized rule differences in XFL and the central part of a league marketing campaign.)
For the early weeks of the season, XFL prohibits all players on the kicking team from going down before a kick is made from soccer practice under it, similar to the NFL rules considered in 1974. For the remainder of the season XFL is modified to allow one player the most close to each side downline before the kick, the same modification NFL adopted for their changes before their 1974 exhibition game started.
Allowing the kicking team to recover the kick really pushed the kick faster during the XFL season alone than it had normally seen in the NFL over the previous few decades.
Play clock
XFL uses 35-second play hours, five seconds shorter than 40-second contemporary NFL playing hours (but still longer than 20 seconds CFL), in an effort to speed up the game.
List and salary
XFL limits each team to an astonishingly low 38 players, compared with 53 on the NFL team and 80 or more on the list of unlimited university rankings. This is similar to the CFL, which has a comparable 40-player limit in 2001. This results, most often, in each team carrying only two quarterbacks and one kicker that doubles as a spectator.
XFL pays the standard player salary. Quarterbacks earn US $ 5,000 per week, kicker gets $ 3,500, and all other uniformed players earn $ 4,500 per week, although some players manage to overcome this restriction (Los Angeles Xtreme player Noel Prefontaine, punting league specialist, and Matt Malloy, ) by registering as backup quarterbacks. The player on the winning team received a $ 2,500 bonus for the week, $ 7,500 to win the playoffs. The team that won the championship game split $ 1,000,000 (about $ 25,000 per player). The player does not receive any benefits, and must pay for his own health insurance.
Jersey nickname
XFL allows its players to wear a nickname on the back of their shirts, as opposed to the official name of the professional league sports club most needed since the 1960s. Players can change their nicknames whenever they want, and some players choose to change their nicknames every week depending on their opponent. (Two teams, Orlando and Birmingham, enforce a policy that prohibits players from using nicknames.) The league's intention to use a background camera angle gives this nickname greater.
Rod Smart, the first XFL defender to air on television, was the first player to get a notice from his nickname, "He Hate Me."
Broadcast summary
Skycam and Bubba Cam
Although XFL is not the first football league to feature a "sky cam", which allows TV viewers to see behind the attack unit, it helps popularize its unique capabilities. For the first few weeks, the league used a cam sky and a cameraman on the field (nicknamed "Bubba Cam" after WWE cameraman Bubba, ironically refusing to cover XFL) extensively; delivering a perspective television broadcast similar to a video game such as the Madden series.
After the XFL failure, the sky cam was adopted by the NFL broadcaster; this device then starts to be used in all major networks. NBC in particular switched back to the XFL camera angle in 2017, when the traditional cameras were too far away to bypass the thick fog and smoke of some of that year's Sunday Night Football games; The response was so positive that the network chose to use two of Thursday Night Football games to experimentally deliberately broadcast most games through that angle.
Broadcast schedule
At the start of the season, NBC showed feature games at 8 pm. East time on Saturday night, also recorded the second match. The second game, within a few weeks, will air on the home team's home visit and broadcast nationally if the feature game is explosive (as it did in the first week) or have technical difficulties (as it happened in a two week). Two games are shown every Sunday: one hour 4 pm. East on TNN and other at 7 pm Eastern Eve at UPN. XFL also has a considerable local radio presence, often using nationally recognized jockey discs. Rick and Bubba's morning radio duo, for example, is the radio broadcast team for Birmingham Thunderbolt. Super Dave Osborne is a side reporter for the Los Angeles Xtreme broadcast on KLSX; WMVP carries the Chicago Enforcers game.
Unusual for professional leagues, XFL does not feature studio covers. The network offers XFL Gameday , a pregame show featuring shock radio athletes Opie and Anthony during the first four weeks of the season, but the show was not done nationally and most affiliates joined just before the game. The first half consisted mostly of live look-ins into the player's locker room, as the coach discussed their strategies and second-half adjustments with their players, as well as the cheerleading performance. XFL also, at McMahon's request, follows a slightly different format from traditional professional football broadcasts: closer announcers follow a professional wrestling model where color commentators have roles like criminals, while side reporters (male-dominated, rare instances of XFL more conservative than the NFL at the time, combining exciting female journalists is an experienced former sports player and broadcaster who is relied upon for more expert analysis than usual.
In the third week of the season, the game accelerated through changes in the rules of play, and broadcasts were subjected to increasing time constraints. The reason is the reaction of Lorne Michaels, executive creator and producer of Saturday Night Live , with the duration of the Los Angeles Xtreme versus Chicago Enforcers game having double overtime. A double overtime period combined with power outages at the beginning of the game because someone did not fill up the generator before the game delayed the contest, causing the start of Saturday Night Live to retreat from 11:30 am. Eastern Time until 12:15 am Sunday. This makes Michaels angry, who expects a high ranking with Jennifer Lopez as the host. For the remainder of the season, XFL cuts coverage at 11:00 Eastern Time regardless of whether the game has ended or not. NBC Sports has maintained this policy for other sports that it runs in Saturday night slots since the XFL closure; in 2018, National Hockey League footage was cut off in a similar situation.
In the face of downgrades, NBC and XFL aggressively promote that the 6th week game between Orlando Rage and Las Vegas Outlaws will feature behind-the-scenes visits to the locker room of Rage cheerleaders in the first half. The highly promoted event was, in fact, a publicity show: instead of showing an entry into the room, the spectators instead spotted a sketch in which the cameraman made himself faint by running to the locker room door, followed by a dream sequence with little implied. nudity, various talisman related scenes, and a surprise cameo from Rodney Dangerfield. The New York Daily News reported that the scene was likely to be "WWF-style final action for the end of the season", citing internal sources indicating that NBC wanted to roll back into a soccer-oriented product balls, including hiring NFL alumni as analysts, and returning the Vasgersian as the main commentator.
Broadcast teams
- NBC (national show) :
- Week 1, 6-10: Matt Vasgersian, Jesse Ventura, Fred Roggin and Mike Adamle. Chris Wragge replaces Roggin for at least 6 weeks.
- Sunday 2-5: Jim Ross, Ventura, Roggin, and Adamle
- NBC (regional live) :
- Week 1: Ross, Jerry Lawler, Jonathan Coachman. For week 1, Ross and Lawler were billed as their WWE persona, "J.R." and "The King."
- Sunday 2-5: Vasgersian, Lawler, and Coachman. McMahon personally downgraded the Vasgersian ratings to regional television broadcasts after openly criticizing cheerleader shooting as an "uncomfortable" broadcast during a week's broadcast.
- Sunday 6-10: Ross, Dick Butkus, and Coachman. Lawler left the XFL (and WWE) in protest after the fifth week after the shooting of his later wife, Stacy Carter, and his own dissatisfaction for being urged into comments on the XFL game; Lawler openly admits in the air that he has almost no interest or background in football, an unusual trait for a color analyst. After Lawler's departure, NBC brought Vasgersian back to the main broadcast team.
- TNN : Craig Minervini, Bob Golic, Lee Reherman, and Kip Lewis.
- UPN : Chris Marlowe, Brian Bosworth, Chris Wragge, and Michael Barkann.
Critical reception
It is believed that the willingness of Las Vegas betting makers to bet on XFL games makes their legitimacy, eliminating the fear that the league has used a predetermined storyline as in professional wrestling. However, the league was criticized by critics as dull football with a tacky broadcast style, although broadcasts on TNN and at lower levels of UPN and NBC Matt Vasgersian-helmed coverage were considered to be relatively professional.
End of season and failure
WWF and NBC each lost $ 35 million reported, recovering only 30% of their initial $ 100 million investment. On April 21, 2001, the season closed as Los Angeles Xtreme beat the San Francisco Demons 38-6 in the XFL Championship Game (originally given the moniker "The Big Game at the End of the Season") but was later dubbed Game Million Dollar, awarded to the winning team).
Although the paid audiences in the game remain respectable, if unimpressive (overall attendance is only 10% below what was the league's goal at the start of the season), XFL ceased operations after just one season due to low TV ratings. Facing the tough competition from the NCAA Basketball Tournament, NBC's screening of the Chicago/NY-NJ game on March 31 received a rating of 1.5, at that time the lowest ever ever for major networks ahead of the first weekend of sports television broadcasts in the United States.
Although initially agreed to broadcast the XFL game for two years and has half of the league, NBC announced it will not broadcast its second XFL season; the network no longer has a full season Saturday night to offer the league for having gained the rights to the 2002 Winter Olympics, even if XFL is more successful or profitable. WWF Chairman Vince McMahon initially announced that XFL will continue, as it still has UPN and TNN as a broadcast channel. In fact, expansion teams are being explored for cities like Washington, D.C. and Detroit. However, to continue broadcasting the XFL game, UPN demands that WWF SmackDown! the broadcast will be cut from two hours to an hour and a half. McMahon found these terms unacceptable and he announced the XFL's closure on May 10, 2001. McMahon's principal adviser, the bewildered Nathan Livian, was quoted as saying "the situation is very bad".
One reason for the league's failure to pursue, despite its financial solvency and massive visibility, is the lack of respect for the league in sports media. XFL games are rarely treated as sports contests, but more like sensational shows like WWF. With a handful of NFL quality players, save Tommy Maddox, MVP league, and with a bit of thoughtful analysis or even consideration by sports columnists, XFL has never gained the recognition needed to be considered a viable league. The fact that the league is jointly owned by NBC makes ESPN (which is part of the same company as ABC) and Fox Sports Net (owned by Fox TV) is reluctant to report XFL, even though Time Warner properties like Sports Illustrated , as well as Associated Press, special coverage for the league ( Sports Illustrated even featuring XFL on the cover of 12 February 2001 edition, though with description it being "deceptive and cheap football"). Many local news and TV newscasts (even in XFL cities) do not report league scores or show highlights. This has led to many football fans treating XFL as a joke, rather than competition with the NFL. Other issues include cheeky cheerleaders, junk talkers, and lack of punishment for rudeness.
XFL ranked No. 1. 3 on the
Many stories that tell the history of XFL photographs about the fall of promotional advertising in Oakland, California, describe it retrospectively as a bad omen for the league. The incident took place a month before the opening game on Tuesday, January 9, 2001. The blimp was in Oakland because the league had flown in during the January 6 playoff game between Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins and was meant to do the same with the following. AFC Championships this week, also in Oakland. The pilot lost control of the plane and was forced to flee. The ground crew could not secure the vehicle and the "unattended air balloon then floated five miles northward over the Oakland Estuary, at one point reaching 1,600 feet, until the gondola caught on a sailboat at the Central Basin marina that covered the roof of the restaurant Oyster Reef - next to where the ship is moored - and the nearest power grid. "While the pilot was hospitalized, no other major injuries were reported. Firearms require $ 2.5 million for repairs, sailboats and restaurants suffered only minor damage.
Before the season began, the fictional XFL game appeared in the 2000 movie The Sixth Day, which was made in 2015.
Legacy
NBC continued to show professional league football outside the XFL ruin, starting with Arena Football League television coverage from 2003 to 2006. In 2006, NBC returned to NFL game coverage with NBC Sunday Night Football, finally adding > Thursday Night Football to its coverage in 2016. McMahon and Ebersol then took credit for a more intimate approach to television football, with innovations like Skycam, miced-up players, and side interviews later used in NFL broadcasts.
The name and logo of the XFL team sometimes appear in movies and television where professional football needs to be dramatized, as licenses for the NFL logo may be costly (as in Arnold Schwarzenegger's film starring the science fiction movie The 6th Day ).
United Football League then put its first four franchises in the market and the previous XFL stadium. However, UFL attracts fans much less than the XFL average: For example, XFL's San Francisco Demons attract an average of 35,000 fans, while UFL California Redwoods attract an average of 6,000, though both play in the same averages. Three of the four charter teams, including Redwood, moved into other markets during the third season of UFL.
ESPN produces a documentary about the league, This is XFL , as part of its anthology series 30 to 30 . The film discusses the old friendship between McMahon and Ebersol, as seen through the eyes of Dick's son, Charlie Ebersol, who directs the film. Mcmahon, Dick Ebersol, Dick Schanzer, Rusty Tillman, Al Luginbill, Intelligent Rod, Tommy Maddox, Paris Lenon, league president Basil DeVito, costume designer Jay Howarth, Jesse Ventura, Matt Vasgersian, Jonathan Coachman, Bob Costas and Jerry Jones all gave interviews for the movie. It debuted in Doc NYC 11 November 2016, and aired on ESPN on February 2, 2017.
Famous player
Notable players include the MVP league and Los Angeles midfielder Tommy Maddox, who signed a contract with Pittsburgh Steelers NFL after the XFL folded (Maddox then became an early quarterback for the Steelers in 2002 and led them into the playoffs of that year, and continued to start them into 2004). Los Angeles used the first pick in the XFL draft to select the former NFL quarterback, Scott Milanovich. Milanovich lost his early quarterback job to Maddox, who was placed at Xtreme as one of a handful of players wearing each team because of the geographical distance between the players college and the team's hometown. Another more notable player is Las Vegas who ran back Rod Smart, who first gained popularity because the name on the back of his uniform reads "He Hate Me." Smart, who took only 357 in the draft, then went on to play for the Philadelphia Eagles, the Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders and Eskimo Edmonton from CFL. His teammate Panther Jake Delhomme named his new horse "She Hate Me" as a reference for him. Smart played on Super Bowl XXXVIII to be one of seven XFL players to play in the Super Bowl. The recipient Yo Murphy also achieved this as a member of St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI along with winning the 95th Grays Cup with Roughriders Saskatchewan in 2007. Tommy Maddox plays for the Super Bowl team (with Pittsburgh Steelers) at Super Bowl XL in Detroit, (though Maddox, then a third-string quarterback , not playing in the game, which turned out to be his last appearance in uniform before retiring). Finally, Las Vegas Outlaws DB Kelly Herndon played on Super Bowl XL with Seattle Seahawks in 2005, where he was remembered for intercepting the pass and returning it to a 76-yard record. Although he did not play for the NFL team after the XFL season alone, the former Las Vegas offensive guard Outlaw Isaac Davis also has a famous NFL career, playing in 58 games for six years of career. Davis started for San Diego Filler in Super Bowl XXIX. John Avery continued playing for both Edmonton Eskimo and Toronto Argonauts where he was an All Star selection in 2002 and won the Gray Cup in 2004.
The last active player to play in XFL was a Canadian placekicker Paul McCallum, who retired as a member of the Lions BC before the start of the 2016 CFL season, but returned to the team as their place kicker during the last regular season game. season 2016.
Plays on CFL
Win the Gray Cup
Plays in NFL
Plays on Super Bowl
Win the Super Bowl
- Ron Carpenter (Super Bowl XXXIV, St. Louis Rams)
- Fred Coleman (Super Bowl XXXVI, New England Patriots)
- Corey Ivy (Super Bowl XXXVII, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
- Tommy Maddox (Super Bowl XL, Pittsburgh Steelers)
- David Richie (Super Bowl XXXII, Denver Broncos)
- Bobby Singh (Super Bowl XXXIV, St. Louis Rams)
Win the XFL Championship and Super Bowl
- Ron Carpenter (Super Bowl XXXIV, St. Louis Rams)
- Tommy Maddox (Super Bowl XL, Pittsburgh Steelers)
- David Richie (Super Bowl XXXII, Denver Broncos)
- Bobby Singh (Super Bowl XXXIV, St. Louis Rams)
Win XFL Championship, Gray Cup and Super Bowl
- Bobby Singh
Plays in AFL
- Jerry Crafts
- Eric England
- Mike Furrey
- Mark Grieb
- Tommy Maddox
- Craig Whelihan
- Kevin Swayne
- Kelvin Kinney
- James Hundon
Grappling for WWE
- Richard Young (Ricky Ortiz)
Current status and planned resurrection
XFL games are now part of the WWE Video Library.
In September 2012, WWE strives to file a new XFL trademark for use in wrestling and football previously submitted in 2009 under XFL LLC. This app is still waiting because WWE has not compiled a "Usage Statement" for the trademark. WWE may consider ignoring old apps and archiving new ones under WWE Inc. In July 2015, the first XFL trademark extension was granted.
On December 15, 2017, it was reported that McMahon was seriously considering the rise of XFL. WWE did not confirm or deny the rumors, but released a statement that McMahon launched a new company known as Alpha Entertainment, which wants to expand into sports and entertainment properties "including professional football", and that WWE itself does not return professional football.
Dave Meltzer wrestling journalist speculates that McMahon started a shell company with his own money to protect WWE shareholders on a potential XFL revival. The XFL awakening will air well on traditional TV or WWE Network, and will soften compared to its original incarnation due to CTE concerns in football that emerged in early 2010. On December 22, 2017, McMahon sold WWE shares for $ 100 million, requiring notification to the Commission US Securities and Exchange; The SEC reported that it was done so that McMahon could fund Alpha Entertainment. WWE shares were slightly down on the report, with Citigroup downgrading WWE's share of "buy" to "neutral".
On January 25, 2018, Alpha Entertainment revealed that it would make a big announcement later that day, which finally announced the XFL revival planned for 2020.
Note
References
- Forrest, Brett (2002). Long Bomb: How XFL Became the Largest Fiasco on TV . New York: Crown Publishing. ISBNÃ, 0-609-60992-0. OCLCÃ, 49260464.
- Fritz, Brian; Murray, Christopher (2006). Between Rope: Biggest Victory and Wrestling Failure . Press ECW. ISBN: 978-1-55022-726-0.
External links
- Remember XFL
- X years after - Journal of SportsBusiness
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