XFL Football League to start in January 2020

You're right, Jerry.
I had to google that, as I had no recall at all, of his name.

I think they spell it Jerry Glanville. I JUST now looked it up, but cannot remember for certain.:rolleyes:

But anyway, he did coach in NFL, for Atlanta, and for another team...:unsure: perhaps Houston Oilers?

He played football in college, and
he also was a driver and owner in NASCAR, and also was an analyst for one of those sports, i have no recall which one!

The Tampa XFL team, (he is coaching today) lost both week 1 and week 2, but are managing to compete in this one, today.

Houston won both of their first 2 weeks games, and look good to day too.
Might be an interesting 2nd half, or game conclusion, but i've got to go back to bed now.

o_O:sleep:
 

Sadly, I can't even work up enough enthusiasm to turn on one of these XFL games. Maybe it's the lack of any particular team interest or not being familiar with ANY of the players?

I've actually developed more interest in the Premier Soccer league in the UK. I chose to follow Watford and they are 18th or 19th in a 20 team league. ☹ Liverpool, who are undefeated and lead the League are owned by John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox.
 
K:
Your right, that Houston QB has an NFL arm, I've never heard of him, but he can throw that ball accurately.
I wish we knew how to judge the opposition, which would tell us just how good he is.
beginning to like the different things XFL does with the camera, especially
when they go to booth of offensive cord and defensive cord.....

Dave A-quit watching that soccer, we need your imput

Old D-where you at.
Bonnie?
 

HI there, @DaveA
Good to see you here.
:)

I think it's good , if you find some interest in the soccer, to go for that.(y)
Or if you have some other activities altogether, that you are able to do, that you like to do!
I would also, as I too, have very little real interest in the XFL.

I watch a small bit of baseball and even a little of basketball, sometimes, in between, for some distractions, but I know you don't like Basket-Ball, and I don't know if you watch Hockey, which is so popular in New England, but I don't.

If you do want to watch any of the XFL games,
I just turn it on, when I cant and dont have any better options for my own situation,
and then I focus on the plays, and I have found some players to find a bit of interest in,

but if I had something else I was able to do, and had family members like you do, I too would find them all much more interesting than i find this league!

As Jerry said, @Old Dummy where are you, and what are you up to, lately? :unsure::unsure:

The QB's for the XFL teams of Wash DC and Houston and Seattle and Dallas, look pretty good to me.
Maybe not great, but enough for me (and perhaps one of you) to have something to watch....though only when I cant do anything else. :sneaky::ROFLMAO:
 
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Hi folks, good to "see" y'all! The notification system here is not the best. This has happened before, but I wasn't notified of any action here until Kaila's post #104, just above, came on. Oh well.

I didn't watch any XFL yesterday as I was away most of the day. I'm home all day today but won't be able to watch anything cuz I don't get ESPN or FS1.

FWIW: I don't know ANY of the players or coaches so I'm pretty much in the dark when these games are on. And to be honest, in previous weeks I had most of them on but I didn't really pay much attention to them.

But spring is on the way (doesn't get dark til around 6:00 now) and time to gradually switch my lifestyle to "summer mode", and that doesn't include football (or any other sports).

September will be here soon enough!
 
Hi, all....
It seems that none of us has felt inspired to watch XFL games, nor have any of us become enthralled, after trying to get interested in them, by having watched some.....

But as I am extremely limited in what I am able to do, otherwise, I will turn them on for brief times, today and tomorrow, anyway, between naps, for a little of any possible distraction.

Will I be the only one? Or is anyone else desperate enough, even though they are not very interested?

Today's (Saturday, Leap day) XFL Games schedule: 2p.m. on ABC; and 5p.m. on FOX (Seattle)

Tomorrow's (Sunday, March 1st) XFL Games schedule: 4 p.m. on FS1 (Houston VS Dallas)
and 7 p.m. on ESPN2 (D.C. vs Tampa)

Those Saturday channels, many of us do get.
Just some of us, get the channels for the Sunday games, this week. (Unless they may have decided to move them to FOX and/or to ABC or ESPN)
 
Kaila said:
Hi, all....
It seems that none of us has felt inspired to watch XFL games, nor have any of us become enthralled, after trying to get interested in them, by having watched some.....

But as I am extremely limited in what I am able to do, otherwise, I will turn them on for brief times, today and tomorrow, anyway, between naps, for a little of any possible distraction.

Will I be the only one? Or is anyone else desperate enough, even though they are not very interested?

Today's (Saturday, Leap day) XFL Games schedule: 2p.m. on ABC; and 5p.m. on FOX (Seattle)

Tomorrow's (Sunday, March 1st) XFL Games schedule: 4 p.m. on FS1 (Houston VS Dallas)
and 7 p.m. on ESPN2 (D.C. vs Tampa)

Those Saturday channels, many of us do get.
Just some of us, get the channels for the Sunday games, this week. (Unless they may have decided to move them to FOX and/or to ABC or ESPN)
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Hi Kaila! How are you doing? -- ok I hope. Long time!

I did watch a bit of today's early game but that was it. Total watching time was 10 minutes or less, lol. One shot of the stands showed a few peeps in the first few rows, but everything above that was empty. Ha, I bet it'll die an ugly death. Will they even make it out of their first season?

Tomorrow's games won't even be available to me, so I'll have to find something else interesting to do. Supposed to go up to 39° -- maybe I'll watch the snow melt!
 
I've watched "bits and pieces" of some of these XFL games, in the past 2 or 3 weeks. These games/players kind of remind me of college level football....players not as "skilled" as most NFL teams....however, fairly entertaining with One exception, IMO. I don't like the constant coverage of the coaches in the booth calling the plays....I would far rather see the cameras staying on the action on the field. These coaches are all calling the plays in some "coded language/terms" which have no meaning to anyone watching. I would hope and assume that as this league matures, the emphasis will be on the Game, and not the "supporting cast". I will be kind of surprised if this league lasts more than a couple of years.
 
Well, this present weekend is week 4 of this go-round.

Is that longer than the previous one(s) lasted? :unsure: Or shorter? :rolleyes:

Does anyone know, or have input on that? I was curious if this one, so far, seems any more "successful" than previous attempts at similar?

Good to see you check in, here, @Old Dummy (y) ...I am not doing well enough to be able to do something more interesting, than intermittently gaze at these games, or at this laptop....and nap, eat.....etc.....
But at least, I am hanging in here!

Now, from what your post said,
you will have to find a way to occupy 10 extra minutes of your day, today, than you did yesterday,
when you spent about that long, watching the XFL. :sneaky:

I expect that will not be too difficult, and that you will not have missed too much, by doing something else! :ROFLMAO:

Houston seems to have the best QB, from what parts I have seen...of him and of some of the others...
 
I gave it a try but just can't work up any enthusiasm for the whole XFL thing. Baseball will soon be here and that's probably where my focus will be. My Red Sox are joining the Astros with the "scarlet letter" painted on their foreheads as cheats.

Hopefully this will all pass and the game will go on. It's not that sign stealing hasn't been around as long as the game itself. Just the "new and improved" method of carrying it out.

And if one wishes to make TV viewing even more painful, just switch to FOX, CNN, or MSNBC, and listen to them droning on about the next election and who's the latest "unloyal" government employee to be fired. This news make the XFL look like the SuperBowl and World Series combined!!! 😄
 
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K. Old D, Dava A
You think we might just be 'football'ed out?'
For me, it is just something to do, something to fill the time.

It takes time to build familiarity, become use to who the individual players are. As of now, there just a bunch of guys playing football.

You know how NFL shows regional games, which has some bearing on
'your teams' standing. XFL, too many new players, too many teams that are unknown.

What? right now I'm rooting for team with the coolest uniforms🤗
 
Yes to everything you said there in that post, @jerry old (y)

Footballed out....and no familiarity...no region....no known teams....o_O:confused:

and a problem with that last great suggestion you had there, is that they have changed uniforms each week! :ROFLMAO:

Therefore, yesterday, I got very confused that there was a green team but no green uniforms...
it took me some time to figure out that the green team was wearing white.... the opposing team had nice-looking blue uniforms, but might be a team I had rooted against, the week before!

By the time I figured that out, I was getting bored with the game and was too worn out, myself, to continue watching.... :rolleyes::sneaky:

It's a good thing, I don't care about these games, because I have no idea who won.
I think I am truly footballed out!

Thanks for helping me to diagnose that new condition I am in!
 
Yes, K. but what are we going to find to replace football, reruns of 'Lucy?'

I get fed up every football season, watching 3 hrs of football, what a waste
of time. Yet, every Sunday, I'm glued to tv.
Don't care for basketball (You?), hockey, gymnastic, same old routines year after year...

XFL is good for a ten minute break, more if there moving the ball
 
Kaila said:
Well, this present weekend is week 4 of this go-round.

Is that longer than the previous one(s) lasted? :unsure: Or shorter? :rolleyes:

Does anyone know, or have input on that? I was curious if this one, so far, seems any more "successful" than previous attempts at similar?

Good to see you check in, here, @Old Dummy (y) ...I am not doing well enough to be able to do something more interesting, than intermittently gaze at these games, or at this laptop....and nap, eat.....etc.....
But at least, I am hanging in here!

Now, from what your post said,
you will have to find a way to occupy 10 extra minutes of your day, today, than you did yesterday,
when you spent about that long, watching the XFL. :sneaky:

I expect that will not be too difficult, and that you will not have missed too much, by doing something else! :ROFLMAO:

Houston seems to have the best QB, from what parts I have seen...of him and of some of the others...
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Hi K, good to "see" you! Jerry and Dave too!

Previous league: Don't remember anything about it really. I think I was watching "arena" football also, which the XFL is not. At any rate, this isn't going to work for me. I don't care about college FB or any other sports actually. Just the NFL. As I think I noted previously, my lifestyle changes this time of year what with longer days and spring around the corner. I think of FB as a fall/winter sport only.

I went for a walk today, was only about 30 out but beautiful bright sun. Days are getting longer, still some light at 6 PM. It replaced my XFL time by a factor of five! XFL watching = 10 minutes. Walk = 50 minutes.

From the other posts here today, I guess none of us really have our rooting skills down pat. I had an old "Rooting for Dummies" book around here somewhere but I can't find it. Somebody musta stole it! :rolleyes:
 
Old Dummy said:
I guess none of us really have our rooting skills down pat. I had an old "Rooting for Dummies" book around here somewhere but I can't find it. Somebody musta stole it
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good theory...but it apparently was not any of us! :ROFLMAO:

That walk you took sounds much better!
 
Kaila said:
good theory...but it apparently was not any of us! :ROFLMAO:

That walk you took sounds much better!
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"Old people" update:

I have, shall we say, quite "elderly" neighbors about a half mile down the road. He will be 92 the end of the month and she will be 88 next month. They live alone out here in the woods on a dirt road, nearest town is 5 miles away. She is still in good shape and without her there, he could not live by himself as he cannot get around without a walker. She doesn't even use a cane!

At any rate they are big NFL fans, Iggles to be specific, which is where they hail from originally. I was talking to her on the phone yesterday and asked if they had watched any of the XFL games. They have, but like the rest of us they do not know any of the teams, players, or coaches. I told her there are only 8 teams, which she didn't know.

So going from what we have talked about here, and what she said about their interest, it doesn't sound like the XFL has a bright future. I had the early game on yesterday but didn't pay any attention to it.
 
oLD d
I CAN'T WALK, 3o feet is about my max, I refuse to use rolling walker on
gravel road, so I;m limited in my walking ability, so there is not taking a walk. The TV is my portal to the world.
Watching they gold miners on Friday nights, I was ignorant as a young
man of the opportunities in ALASKA, and anywhere else for that matter.

Life the rest of us, i'll tune in TO The football game for 15 minutes, if there doing somethingexciting, i'll watch until they fall back into their slumber.
no, I don't think they will make it, don't know how much tv contract is worth and other finances...the money the producers are willing to gamble will tale the tale.

Remember first two years Dallas Cowboys begin playing, if you wanted
a ticket all you had to do was go to stadium , they would give you a
ticked so the seats would not be empty.
 
Well I watched the Houston-Seattle game yesterday - most of it anyway. . it was okay, but I don't understand the rule changes, like extra points after a TD.
Saw the end, but I guess it technically never ended .... stopped @ 2 seconds to go. How does that happen?
 
Bonnie
Your missed stick your head in every once in a while; doesn't appear any of us are interested in XFL, just marking time until NFL season begins.
Your a Cleveland fan-right?

Kaila holds this thread together.
 
Oh, @Bonnie
After touchdowns, the XFL teams cannot have any extra point kick.

In place of that, they have 3 options, their coach can choose between;
to start at different yard line distances, and try to get into end zone.

It is one of the ways the XFL rules, make it easier for a team to attempt to possibly catch up, or win,
even if one team is behind, near the end of games.

They aimed to make it more exciting and competitive, late in games. A lead doesn't mean as much as it does in regular NFL rules.
 

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