(sigh) Return of the XFL

[OleMissCub]

someone tell abuck to come join the fun!!

[OleMissCub]

I just wish OMC would not have deleted his post calling Weis a "cvnt".

 

shut it, cvnt

[minnesotacubsfan]

what a strange hill to die on

 

Chad kelly? wtf cares

[OleMissCub]

well ima tap out not now. My work is now complete.

 

[SouthSideRyan]

[NonProfitCow]

White Sox home spring training sales probably also did.

[biittner77]

I watched about 10 minutes. 3 point conversion. If a punt goes in the end zone the ball comes out to the 35 so they basically have to go for it on 4th down inside the 45. Kickoffs were interesting too. Pretty extreme.

[jersey cubs fan]

We stopped into a mexican restaurant for some margs and apps and the Trestman game was on over my shoulder. My daughter kept glancing up but I realized it was just during commercials, and then when bowling came on after the game.

 

I cannot imagine getting into a new league.

[ConstableRabbit]

We stopped into a mexican restaurant for some margs and apps and the Trestman game was on over my shoulder. My daughter kept glancing up but I realized it was just during commercials, and then when bowling came on after the game.

 

I cannot imagine getting into a new league.

Salt? No Salt? Rocks?

 

Which apps?

[jersey cubs fan]

We stopped into a mexican restaurant for some margs and apps and the Trestman game was on over my shoulder. My daughter kept glancing up but I realized it was just during commercials, and then when bowling came on after the game.

 

I cannot imagine getting into a new league.

Salt? No Salt? Rocks?

 

Which apps?

 

cadillac margarita on the rocks with salt, always salt.

Queso fundido with chorizo.

chips and salsa

[Sammy Sofa]

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[David]

We stopped into a mexican restaurant for some margs and apps and the Trestman game was on over my shoulder. My daughter kept glancing up but I realized it was just during commercials, and then when bowling came on after the game.

 

I cannot imagine getting into a new league.

 

if i bet it i will watch

[WrigleyField 22]

I cannot imagine getting into a new league.

I tuned in, mostly as background. The quality of play obviously was meh, but almost everything they added the NFL/college needs to adopt ASAP.

 

If they can make a great fantasy app around it, I'd end up a lot more hooked. I was pretty indifferent to it before, but I hope it actually sticks.

[biittner77]

We stopped into a mexican restaurant for some margs and apps and the Trestman game was on over my shoulder. My daughter kept glancing up but I realized it was just during commercials, and then when bowling came on after the game.

 

I cannot imagine getting into a new league.

 

And here I was thinking that June Jones was the most hilarious coach in this league.

[BigbadB]

We stopped into a mexican restaurant for some margs and apps and the Trestman game was on over my shoulder. My daughter kept glancing up but I realized it was just during commercials, and then when bowling came on after the game.

 

I cannot imagine getting into a new league.

 

I probably would have liked to see Portland, San Antonio, San Diego and other towns that lost their NFL teams or aren't considered big enough to support an NFL team have a crack at the XFL. Maybe in future seasons, they can expand to those towns. San Diego would have been a great market this year as the entire town is now ready to walk away from the Chargers now that Philip Rivers will be somewhere else. Only the faithful stuck around that long. I could see this league being successful to those towns that don't have NFL, assuming that ticket prices don't soar to NFL levels. And I could see this as being a nice farm system for the NFL, at least for undrafted players that might have been overlooked in the draft. I didn't watch much this weekend, but I am married and she's a football widow during NFL season, so I'm not going to be one of those that embraces another league.

 

I loved the kickoff rule from the few times I saw it. Still a chance to run one back. Less full speed collisions causing injuries. The touchback in the NFL is so prevalent these days, that it's just boring. I find it worse that the touchback doesn't even make a guy get the ball and down it. It used to be that if you didn't recover the kickoff before the kicking team got it, they could turn that into a touchdown. Now the ball bounces into the endzone and the ref blows the play dead. Boring!

[WrigleyField 22]

We stopped into a mexican restaurant for some margs and apps and the Trestman game was on over my shoulder. My daughter kept glancing up but I realized it was just during commercials, and then when bowling came on after the game.

 

I cannot imagine getting into a new league.

 

I probably would have liked to see Portland, San Antonio, San Diego and other towns that lost their NFL teams or aren't considered big enough to support an NFL team have a crack at the XFL. Maybe in future seasons, they can expand to those towns. San Diego would have been a great market this year as the entire town is now ready to walk away from the Chargers now that Philip Rivers will be somewhere else. Only the faithful stuck around that long. I could see this league being successful to those towns that don't have NFL, assuming that ticket prices don't soar to NFL levels. And I could see this as being a nice farm system for the NFL, at least for undrafted players that might have been overlooked in the draft. I didn't watch much this weekend, but I am married and she's a football widow during NFL season, so I'm not going to be one of those that embraces another league.

 

I loved the kickoff rule from the few times I saw it. Still a chance to run one back. Less full speed collisions causing injuries. The touchback in the NFL is so prevalent these days, that it's just boring. I find it worse that the touchback doesn't even make a guy get the ball and down it. It used to be that if you didn't recover the kickoff before the kicking team got it, they could turn that into a touchdown. Now the ball bounces into the endzone and the ref blows the play dead. Boring!

Yea, StL was the only NFL vacant market they targeted. Obviously way ahead of ourselves, but SD would be a good target if they actually stick around and ever expand. They probably can't get too big if they want to survive. Arena league got as high as 19 teams but couldn't sustain that. It the XFL is still running in 5 years though, maybe they could get as high as 12 and be sustainable with a mix of large NFL markets and non-NFL markets. They ran about 17k in attendance for week 1. AFL ran a lot of years less than that.

[minnesotacubsfan]

 

cadillac margarita on the rocks with salt, always salt.

 

 

I feel a kinship

[Butterscup]

the XFL is fun and good and getting to hate marc trestman again alone makes it worth it

[imb]

i feel like the real struggle the xfl is gonna face is that the NFL is a 12-month league because of free agency and the draft and there is literally not going to be any interest in the xfl in that aspect.

[OleMissCub]

i feel like the real struggle the xfl is gonna face is that the NFL is a 12-month league because of free agency and the draft and there is literally not going to be any interest in the xfl in that aspect.

 

I think they'd have to do something extreme like allow 18 year old players to join. That would generate some round the calendar buzz, much in the same way that college recruiting does now.

[Derwood]

i feel like the real struggle the xfl is gonna face is that the NFL is a 12-month league because of free agency and the draft and there is literally not going to be any interest in the xfl in that aspect.

 

I think they'd have to do something extreme like allow 18 year old players to join. That would generate some round the calendar buzz, much in the same way that college recruiting does now.

 

Yup. The NFL will start paying attention to them if they start poaching guys before they ever go to college (though the end result may be the XFL turning into an NFL Developmental League)

[WrigleyField 22]

i feel like the real struggle the xfl is gonna face is that the NFL is a 12-month league because of free agency and the draft and there is literally not going to be any interest in the xfl in that aspect.

 

I think they'd have to do something extreme like allow 18 year old players to join. That would generate some round the calendar buzz, much in the same way that college recruiting does now.

 

Yup. The NFL will start paying attention to them if they start poaching guys before they ever go to college (though the end result may be the XFL turning into an NFL Developmental League)

Not sure getting 18 year olds will end up making sense, but maybe they could get involved with the "transfer" game. Rather than sit out a year, potentially put up tape immediately that spring and then declare the next year.

[Derwood]

 

I think they'd have to do something extreme like allow 18 year old players to join. That would generate some round the calendar buzz, much in the same way that college recruiting does now.

 

Yup. The NFL will start paying attention to them if they start poaching guys before they ever go to college (though the end result may be the XFL turning into an NFL Developmental League)

Not sure getting 18 year olds will end up making sense, but maybe they could get involved with the "transfer" game. Rather than sit out a year, potentially put up tape immediately that spring and then declare the next year.

 

I think there are a decent number of high school players who would gladly skip college and start making money at age 18

[WrigleyField 22]

 

Yup. The NFL will start paying attention to them if they start poaching guys before they ever go to college (though the end result may be the XFL turning into an NFL Developmental League)

Not sure getting 18 year olds will end up making sense, but maybe they could get involved with the "transfer" game. Rather than sit out a year, potentially put up tape immediately that spring and then declare the next year.

 

I think there are a decent number of high school players who would gladly skip college and start making money at age 18

The top ones are peobably gonna get much better coaching at high level college programs. Doubt the XFL is gonna drop much money on some 3 star 18 year old.