United Football League

[Lineker]

In any country they do that? No mate, only America is obsessed with playing its national anthem before bloody everything.

[Meacon Keaton]

He keeps saying there is interest from networks yet he kicked things off by saying they've not spoken with anyone about broadcasting it. 

[Maxx]

No old teams? BOOOOOOOO!

Given that the X-Treme were the only XFL Champions, they should automatically get a spot.

[Meacon Keaton]

Oh wait, they're not letting ANY criminals play? Yeah, this is definitely going to be the least talented league ever.  

[Lineker]

This is going to be a disaster.

"Did you ask your wife?"
"....No."

[Meacon Keaton]

I'm curious what Colin Kaepernick thinks of possibly being a future XFL superstar with no rights.

[Maxx]

Gonna have less commercial breaks cause they won't have advertisers.

[Gazz]

I'm also incredibly wary of Vince 'I listen to the fans' McMahon. The fuck you do.

[Meacon Keaton]

You can tell how much the wrestling landscape has changed.

XFL 2001 - The Rock cutting promos! Wrestling announcers calling the games! TONS of crossover.

XFL 2018 - Nope. Nothing to do with WWE. No crossover. It's not even the same company! What's a WWE?!?!

[C-MIL]

[Lineker]

"NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told ESPN the league will have no comment on McMahon's upstart league."

[Dan]

4 minutes ago, Meacon said:

You can tell how much the wrestling landscape has changed.

XFL 2001 - The Rock cutting promos! Wrestling announcers calling the games! TONS of crossover.

XFL 2018 - Nope. Nothing to do with WWE. No crossover. It's not even the same company! What's a WWE?!?!

I haven't watched wrestling in a decade. What's changed? Why no crossovers?

[Meacon Keaton]

2 minutes ago, Lineker said:

"NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told ESPN the league will have no comment on McMahon's upstart league."

It’s the equivalent of TNA trying to pick a fight with the WWE. 

1 minute ago, Dan said:

I haven't watched wrestling in a decade. What's changed? Why no crossovers?

2001 it was popular. 2018 it’s rather lame.  

[Maxx]

YOU'RE LAME

[C-MIL]

1 minute ago, Meacon said:

2001 it was popular. 2018 it’s rather lame.  

I don't think this is about protecting the new XFL from the lameness of WWE...

[King Ellis]

I'm sure there are marketing experts with considerable knowledge that were consulted on this but I'm curious as the value of keeping the name XFL that, if it has any name value after 15+ years, it's only negative. Why not call it literally anything else? I guess with Vince at the helm, people would probably just call it XFL 2 anyway so there's no point trying to distance themselves from it?

[Colly]

Just now, King Vitamin Ellis said:

I'm sure there are marketing experts with considerable knowledge that were consulted on this but I'm curious as the value of keeping the name XFL that, if it has any name value after 15+ years, it's only negative. Why not call it literally anything else? I guess with Vince at the helm, people would probably just call it XFL 2 anyway so there's no point trying to distance themselves from it?

That's what it is. There's no way they can separate it from the last attempt, so why bother? 

[munky]

4 hours ago, Maxx said:

Someone tell Johnny Football not to sign in Canada.

 

[Meacon Keaton]

4 minutes ago, C-MIL said:

I don't think this is about protecting the new XFL from the lameness of WWE...

Twas a joke. I realize it's because Vince wants XFL to look more legit and less like a cartoon football league this time around. 

[The Buscher]