XFL Reboot

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https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/...ersial-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.
 

Monello

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They should position themselves to be a feeder system for the NFL. A lot of the college players are barely literate and go to school just to play ball. Why not skip school and make a few bucks. Let a more academic minded student athlete take their place.
 

MiddleGround

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They should position themselves to be a feeder system for the NFL. A lot of the college players are barely literate and go to school just to play ball. Why not skip school and make a few bucks. Let a more academic minded student athlete take their place.

That's a good point. I wonder how a successful XFL would impact the college football's power conference's ability to be the NFL's feeder system. Might make for interesting drama.

If the person's only reason for attending college is to make it to the NFL, they can now skip all that boring learning, books, hard work, and stuff and just go to the XFL.
 

PeoplesElbow

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They should position themselves to be a feeder system for the NFL. A lot of the college players are barely literate and go to school just to play ball. Why not skip school and make a few bucks. Let a more academic minded student athlete take their place.

Why wouldn't arena football do that? Kurt Warner was an arena league player if I remember correctly.
 

Monello

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Why wouldn't arena football do that? Kurt Warner was an arena league player if I remember correctly.

Does the arena league take a decent high school player that hasn't played in college? The game is sort of the same on the smaller field but it is quite different in many aspects. The XFL will mirror the NFL just played with less skilled players.
 

PeoplesElbow

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Does the arena league take a decent high school player that hasn't played in college? The game is sort of the same on the smaller field but it is quite different in many aspects. The XFL will mirror the NFL just played with less skilled players.

The requirement to play in the arena league is you must be 18 and pass the physical.
 

Merlin99

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That's a good point. I wonder how a successful XFL would impact the college football's power conference's ability to be the NFL's feeder system. Might make for interesting drama.

If the person's only reason for attending college is to make it to the NFL, they can now skip all that boring learning, books, hard work, and stuff and just go to the XFL.

Otis Sistrunk went from High School to the Marines, from the marines he went to the NFL where the introduced his alma mater as the University of Mars.
 

Grumpy

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Otis Sistrunk went from High School to the Marines, from the marines he went to the NFL where the introduced his alma mater as the University of Mars.

And Herb Mul-key went to Nonee University according to Howard Cosell
 

Monello

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And Herb Mul-key went to Nonee University according to Howard Cosell

That was Tom Brookshier who said that. Cosell famously referred to Mul-key as a little monkey. That innocent comment didn't go over too when and was the genesis for the snowflake movement.
 

Grumpy

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That was Tom Brookshier who said that. Cosell famously referred to Mul-key as a little monkey. That innocent comment didn't go over too when and was the genesis for the snowflake movement.

:dainbramage::lol: I just looked that up, always thought it was Cosell for Nonee and thought it was Joe Washington that he referred to 'look at that monkey run'...mis-remembered nostalgia..:lol:
 
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