🏈 XFL Football Thread 🏈

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by Garce:
If they were smart. they would take on College football, not the NFL. Start offering contracts to 18 year olds.

The XFL doesn't have an age limit like the NFL does (players may enter the draft no sooner than three seasons following the graduation of their high school class), but XFL executives also don't want to recruit players off campuses. Commissioner Oliver Luck used to be West Virginia's athletic director and worked as a vice president at the NCAA before he joined the XFL, and he has made clear that the league won't be trying to actively poach players from college rosters. But if those players run into issues that don't involve breaking the law and for some reason can't play in college, the XFL can offer another chance to play prior to the NFL Draft.

https://theathletic.com/1275936/2019/10/08/kenny-robinson-jr-xfl-nfl-draft/

Why not?

This league might last 1 year.

Originally posted by Knowledge:

This league might last 1 year.

Depends on if football purists truly love the game as much as they boast that they do and will watch anything that is football. The have plenty of money behind it, a person who knows what he's doing in Oliver Luck and they've had enough time to put it all together. I think it has a chance unlike that other league that tried this year.

Originally posted by JustinMT:

Originally posted by Knowledge:

This league might last 1 year.

Depends on if football purists truly love the game as much as they boast that they do and will watch anything that is football. The have plenty of money behind it, a person who knows what he's doing in Oliver Luck and they've had enough time to put it all together. I think it has a chance unlike that other league that tried this year.

It depends if the viewing public wants to watch football bad enough even if it's bad football .

History says they won't

hey it only took the NFL about 50 years to create the Super Bowl and become popular

I will watch a game or 2. Expect it to be crap. 55k salary LMAO. I'll give it 2 seasons only because of the money behind it.

Originally posted by Strwy2Hevn:
I will watch a game or 2. Expect it to be crap. 55k salary LMAO. I'll give it 2 seasons only because of the money behind it.

I guess McMahon has enough money for 3 years financially.

Anyway, for those who will watch it like myself, whose your team? I can't root for a Seattle or LA football team, or Dallas, I'm thinking Houston Roughnecks or DC Defenders or NY Guardians.

Originally posted by JustinMT:

Originally posted by Knowledge:
This league might last 1 year.

Depends on if football purists truly love the game as much as they boast that they do and will watch anything that is football. The have plenty of money behind it, a person who knows what he's doing in Oliver Luck and they've had enough time to put it all together. I think it has a chance unlike that other league that tried this year.

The AAF would of lasted if they had the money. CBS and TNT were ready to broadcast more games but they folded before those happened. Rating were really good (between 500,000 - 1 million viewers) for what was essentially minor league football.

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by JustinMT:

Originally posted by Knowledge:

This league might last 1 year.

Depends on if football purists truly love the game as much as they boast that they do and will watch anything that is football. The have plenty of money behind it, a person who knows what he's doing in Oliver Luck and they've had enough time to put it all together. I think it has a chance unlike that other league that tried this year.

The AAF would of lasted if they had the money. CBS and TNT were ready to broadcast more games but they folded before those happened. Rating were really good (between 500,000 - 1 million viewers) for what was essentially minor league football.

They should make it pay per view .

Figure out the football purist population , divide the break even point by that population and it should run its course

I can honestly see Jay Gruden as an XFL coach.

The salary details come via a report from ESPN's Kevin Seifert, and they are grim. While quarterbacks in the league can make up to nearly $500,000 for a season of work, an average non-quarterback on an average team can expect to pull in somewhere around ten percent of that amount, and is only guaranteed a harrowing portion of even that:

The XFL informed agents a week before its Oct. 15-16 draft that non-quarterbacks would receive $2,080 every two weeks they are under contract, for a max base salary of $27,040 for the season. There are $1,685 bonuses for being on an active game-day roster and another $2,222 for players on the winning team. A player who is active for all 10 games and is on a team that goes 5-5 would earn $55,000 for the season.

To put that in perspective, Vereen would've earned more than the XFL's base weekly salary for every week that he spent in training camp this summer.