XFL Football League to start in January 2020

jerry r. garner said:
Kaila wants to know how much tv networks are paying to air games, that is the key to
survival, will goggle tomorrow or next day.
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That sounds great, Jerry.
Just curious, how it all works.

And do the stadiums have to be rented? Are they playing at smaller colleges fields?

But, no problem if you do not get to looking anything up!


jerry r. garner said:
Okay OD, you got Houston, I'll root for LA-I prefer white uniforms.
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:ROFLMAO: SO we'll all choose sides, based on colors? :giggle:

I like red, so I'll root with OldD for this one. ;)

Then, I will promise to root for whoever Jerry chooses, tomorrow. (y)
 

Kaila said:
That sounds great, Jerry.
Just curious, how it all works.

And do the stadiums have to be rented? Are they playing at smaller colleges fields?

But, no problem if you do not get to looking anything up!




:ROFLMAO: SO we'll all choose sides, based on colors? :giggle:

I like red, so I'll root with OldD for this one. ;)

Then, I will promise to root for whoever Jerry chooses, tomorrow. (y)
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Kaila, when I was watching the first game, I got curious about the field size so I started "rooting" around and found this Wiki article all about the new XFL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2020)

Okay on red! LA on top 14-12 right now, first half almost over.
 

Good point, I wonder if the field is smaller or the same?(y)

It would be nice and helpful of them, if they would have each team have a very different primary color, so we could just root for our color teams! Like we are young children? :ROFLMAO:

What do any of you think of the announcers, and analysts.... ?
 
Fox throws the money in the pot.

It is divided by the teams.
Pay scale.
27, 400 base pay
2,222 for each win
I,685 for pre game stuff (not clear)= 13 or 14 weeks not counting spring training (four weeks would you guess)so, around 18 weeks, probably
probably drag it out to 20 weeks. Say they have four weeks of spring training= 24-26 weels. That is close to half a year.

Also, the potential of being picked up by a NFL team which I would guess is what they are all hoping for.
 
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My son has a friend that is in that Football league....I rarely look at that.....Sometimes my husband tunes in the game....If he know's my son's
friend is on the league that is playing....
 
Kaila said:
Good point, I wonder if the field is smaller or the same?(y)

It would be nice and helpful of them, if they would have each team have a very different primary color, so we could just root for our color teams! Like we are young children? :ROFLMAO:

What do any of you think of the announcers, and analysts.... ?
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Kaila, the field is a standard NFL field, 100 yards long -- which is what it looked like to me yesterday.

A few other tidbits are here.
 
The first look turned me off. Immediate sideline interviews as players come off the field ended with the f-bomb being dropped. Nice start for the younger kids just taking interest in major (?) league sports. The second turn-off is the legalized betting. I've never been a fan of betting on pro sports although I'm sure that I'm a minority in a world swimming in gambling of all forms.

Get enough money involved in winning and losing and it leads to problems. Hopefully Vince McMahon doesn't turn it into a "clown show". He seems the type to do anything, no matter outrageous, to boost revenues and to hell with any purity of the sport.

Just my opinions - others may have theirs. The uniforms were nice, players were skilled, it's the aura surrounding the games that I'm uncomfortable with.
 
Wikepedia has all info available, which is a lot.
salary brake down..
I do not like that wrestling promoter running the league, I think of him as a sleazy type fellow.
Don A states a lot of things that brother me, I just think this McMahon
wants money and is not concerned on what he has to do to get it.
Gambling appears to be a strong pitfall.
 
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My TV signal came back on, so I could watch only the last part of that 2nd game, last evening....on Fox, at least the camera's were good....

and it looked to me as if,

Red uniform, #11, QB (P.J.Walker maybe?) is the "next Lamar Jackson" ;):ROFLMAO:

But of course, the opponent team defense was overwhelmed, and the entire other team looked exhausted, by that time in that game.
 
DaveA said:
The first look turned me off. Immediate sideline interviews as players come off the field ended with the f-bomb being dropped. Nice start for the younger kids just taking interest in major (?) league sports. The second turn-off is the legalized betting. I've never been a fan of betting on pro sports although I'm sure that I'm a minority in a world swimming in gambling of all forms.

Get enough money involved in winning and losing and it leads to problems. Hopefully Vince McMahon doesn't turn it into a "clown show". He seems the type to do anything, no matter outrageous, to boost revenues and to hell with any purity of the sport.

Just my opinions - others may have theirs. The uniforms were nice, players were skilled, it's the aura surrounding the games that I'm uncomfortable with.
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I noted a QB talking to a team mate yesterday, with a live mike. I kept waiting for foul language but didn't hear any -- which surprised me. So you DID hear it at some point? If this is part of the program, then I would not like it either.

Betting: I hate it and have only done it once in my life (SB two years ago) and will never do it again; it just ruins everything about watching the game IMO. I'm not a gambler anyway, it just never appealed to me.

However, I thought betting was legalized for everything now? What's different about the XFL?
 
Some parts I found, were a little bit interesting...mostly just to see what it is and what it is not.

And the rule differences were a bit interesting to me.....
no coaches challenges, all booth reviews that were done well and quickly, using all of the available camera angles.... shorter time clocks...different player formations....especially on kicks....

Interesting, except for the parts that were not interesting, :sneaky: and I could ignore those....

There are always parts of anything I watch, (or partially watch) that warrant my active ignoring measures.
Fox's coverage did not emphasize the betting, it seemed.

I wonder why they called so few run plays, and so many pass plays. :unsure:
And why they so often went for it, on 4th down, regardless of field position. :unsure:

Four of those type games in one weekend, seemed like over-saturation to me.:oops:
Not sure the whole thing will sustain enough of my or others' interest.

But at least it was something to check out. Very glad the heat stayed on, and the TV and Internet, came back, for the 2nd half of the weekend.
 
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I watched the games yesterday, and noticed that the stadiums had Plenty of open seats....the fans were virtually all seated in the lower tiers of the stadiums. Perhaps as this new league matures, the fan base will increase....but if these teams can't fill the stadiums to at least 1/2 capacity, I doubt this league will last very long.
 
Yes but.....
I noticed that the "fans" that were there in person, looked very enthusiastic!
:LOL:
Are they paid actors or "real people?"
:ROFLMAO:
 
"However, I thought betting was legalized for everything now? What's different about the XFL?"

Old dummy - -I only picked it up from what I read? If you enter "XFL legal gambling" in Google Search, quite a bit of info will pop up. Looks like all gambling is legal in 6 states but that's the extent of my knowledge.

I've always held that sports and gambling are not a good mix. The influence of big money on the outcomes of games AND their scores is too much of a temptation for a few and those few who skew the results can destroy any confidence in fans that the games aren't rigged.
 
DaveA said:
"However, I thought betting was legalized for everything now? What's different about the XFL?"

Old dummy - -I only picked it up from what I read? If you enter "XFL legal gambling" in Google Search, quite a bit of info will pop up. Looks like all gambling is legal in 6 states but that's the extent of my knowledge.

I've always held that sports and gambling are not a good mix. The influence of big money on the outcomes of games AND their scores is too much of a temptation for a few and those few who skew the results can destroy any confidence in fans that the games aren't rigged.
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Thanks.

I hate gambling. The local radio sports guys always yak about the NFL games on Monday morning and that's fine, but it's more about who won a bet than the actual game itself.

If there was one thing I listened to my father about, it would be gambling. I did everything else he didn't want me to do, but I don't like gambling any more than he did. It corrupts everything.
 
Tomorrow is Sat Feb 15, and the next day is Sunday, Feb 16,
so there are more of these pseudo-football games :sneaky:
To possibly consider a glance at:

Sat. :
2pm on ABC, and 5pm on Fox.

Sun,:
3pm on ABC, and 6pm on Fs1

I will glance at it, at some point. I don't even remember which teams won or lost, last weekend.
I think the team wearing Red won. Teams wearing red, usually do. :ROFLMAO:

And since last week was Week 1; I am pretty sure that every team's record, at this time, is either 1 - 0, or 0 - 1.
See? I am keeping very close track of this. :LOL:
 
How has Kaila been? Okay I hope. :)

I think your win/loss stats are 100% accurate.
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Imma get the ol' rootin' machine primed and fired up tomorrow afternoon. The NY team (Guardians) is the closest team to me geographically, and Federal law sez you gotta root for the closest team. So I be a-rootin' for them tomorrow.

I sure hope they got RED uniforms.
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Old Dummy said:
How has Kaila been? Okay I hope. :)

I think your win/loss stats are 100% accurate.
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Imma get the ol' rootin' machine primed and fired up tomorrow afternoon. The NY team (Guardians) is the closest team to me geographically, and Federal law sez you gotta root for the closest team. So I be a-rootin' for them tomorrow.

I sure hope they got RED uniforms.
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Same here, OD. I'm up in Massachusetts and we were NY Giants fans until the Patriots came into the NFL, back in 1960 I believe.
 
I only watched (some of) the early game. The non-NY team was red and they won in a blowout, 27-0 I believe. Grrrr . . . :mad:

My rooting was apparently lacking. So I made an appt. with my doctor, going in Monday AM for a "rooting blood test." They check the amount of serum "ruts" and will tell me if I'm lacking.

I hope I don't have to go on medication. Wish me luck. :(
 

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