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This is the XFL, again: Controversial football league set to return in 2020
As if 2017 was not crazy enough, 2018 has fired its opening salvo as the return of the XFL, a controversial football league originally founded by Vince McMahon in 1999, will be officially announced on Thursday, sources close to the situation confirm to CBS Sports.

While the return of the XFL will be made official Thursday, CBS Sports has also learned that the league is not expected to start up again until 2020. McMahon, who rushed the original XFL into existence without so much as a full slate of offseason practices to prepare for the league's inaugural year, has apparently learned his lesson from one of the XFL's biggest initial mistakes.

An announcement has been set for 3 p.m. ET.

There had been unsubstantiated talk about the XFL making a return late in 2017, but Brad Shepard first reported in mid-December that McMahon, WWE's chairman, was planning to make such an announcement on Jan. 25. That day has indeed arrived.

WWE clarified at that time of the initial reports that it was not going back into the football business but McMahon will rather be doing so on his own. McMahon has created Alpha Entertainment separate from WWE and recently sold 3.34 million shares of WWE stock (about $100 million worth) in order to help fund the company. Alpha Entertainment has also since acquired five XFL trademarks that WWE abandoned between 2002 and 2005.
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I'm excited, not gonna lie.
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Hell, I will be watching again. The only thing that I didn't particularly cared for were the nicknames. I got used to it.

If I am not mistaken, ex-WIU Leatherneck, Donnie Caldwell was hurt on the initial Scramble and never played the rest of the year.
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Kaepernick, Manziel?

Then again, the league may not even become a real thing.
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UOK wrote:Kaepernick, Manziel?
Manziel could use the old HE HATE ME moniker because i think everyone does

UOK wrote:Then again, the league may not even become a real thing.
has has $100 million as his start up money and seems to be taking things more serious this time ... but, who knows
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I hope this works as a "minor league" system can get undrafted players..and FA cuts some teaching and exposure//
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docc wrote:I hope this works as a "minor league" system can get undrafted players..and FA cuts some teaching and exposure//

I think the NFL would benefit more from an arrangement to do just that than they benefit from stealing home games from fans by having teams play overseas

I know Goodell is obsessed with making the NFL an international brand, and the owners seem to go along with it ... but I hate it
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Man, I'll watch the shit out of this again.
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Forgot Rashaan Salaam had a moment in the league. He played for Memphis and was the league's 4th leading rusher in the first season.

It wasn't the former Leatherneck hurt in initial scramble, it was Hashan Samshid-Deen. You all remember him right? :rofl:
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Based on Vince's conference call with reporters from around the world yesterday, here's what is known about the XFL 2020:
  • wants games inside the 2 hour mark
  • will ponder not having a halftime break
  • players WILL stand for anthem or be severely punished/removed from league
  • no political or social exhibitionism will be tolerated
  • players with criminal or otherwise poor history will not be signed
  • no ideas of cities for teams
  • no idea about investors
  • Vince McMahon will not be 'front-and-center' at all
  • intends to hire 'experts' to run the league
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I hope this stays away from anything WWE. No wrestling announcers, no over the top shit. Just treat it like football.

Have clear catch rules as well.
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Otis Day wrote:I hope this stays away from anything WWE. No wrestling announcers, no over the top shit. Just
treat it like football.

Vince said there will be no WWE/XFL crossover whatsoever.
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UOK wrote:Based on Vince's conference call with reporters from around the world yesterday, here's what is known about the XFL 2020:
  • wants games inside the 2 hour mark
  • will ponder not having a halftime break
  • players WILL stand for anthem or be severely punished/removed from league
  • no political or social exhibitionism will be tolerated
  • players with criminal or otherwise poor history will not be signed
  • no ideas of cities for teams
  • no idea about investors
  • Vince McMahon will not be 'front-and-center' at all
  • intends to hire 'experts' to run the league
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