AHC: Make XFL Successful

But then do you trust that they didn't go the wrestling route and fix the matches.

Not really, but if you go that route go all the way. Who cares if it is obvious? Everyone knows that wrestling matches are fixed but the WWE is still around so people sill go to them anyways even when everyone in the audience knows it is fake.
 
Not really, but if you go that route go all the way. Who cares if it is obvious? Everyone knows that wrestling matches are fixed but the WWE is still around so people sill go to them anyways even when everyone in the audience knows it is fake.
But Gridiron Football is different. Professional Wrestling is supposed to be fake for sake of safety. But,Gridiron football it can be real while being safe.
 
But Gridiron Football is different. Professional Wrestling is supposed to be fake for sake of safety. But,Gridiron football it can be real while being safe.

True, but if people want to pay good money to see "fake football" it is no skin off my nose. If they go that route it would be better that it was obvious as I definitely see fixed games as fraudulent. But if everyone knows it is fixed than it isn't fraud. I don't care much what people do with their money.
 
If I remember correct no one expected the plug to be pulled. I remember reading somewhere that Detroit was going to have a franchise announced.
Supposedly for a couple of years all the equipment (helmets, uniforms ect) were stored for a return a year later.

] In fact, expansion teams were being explored for cities such as Washington, D.C. and Detroit. However, in order to continue broadcasting XFL games, UPN demanded that WWE SmackDown! broadcasts be cut from two hours to one and a half hours.[29] McMahon found these terms unacceptable and he announced the XFL's closure on May 10, 2001.[26][27] McMahon's chief adviser, a perplexed Nathan Livian, was quoted as saying "the situation is, indeed, very bad".
 
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Simple.

Keep Vince away and put someone who has been somewhat successful in the field in it (meaning absolutely no Vince McMahon influence, at all).

The man may be a billionaire but he only knows the wrestling business really. He has no experience at all in what makes a sport tick, especially one like American Football.

Maybe a rival league goes into cities where the NFL simply isn't (i.e. L.A, Birmingham, Portland, San Antonio, Austin, Orlando, Columbus, Oklahoma City, even some Canadian cities like Vancouver, Toronto etc) and maybe does some things the NFL doesn't, nothing outlandish, but fixing errors of the NFL (like maybe video technology early).
 
Simple.

Keep Vince away and put someone who has been somewhat successful in the field in it (meaning absolutely no Vince McMahon influence, at all).

The man may be a billionaire but he only knows the wrestling business really. He has no experience at all in what makes a sport tick, especially one like American Football.

Maybe a rival league goes into cities where the NFL simply isn't (i.e. L.A, Birmingham, Portland, San Antonio, Austin, Orlando, Columbus, Oklahoma City, even some Canadian cities like Vancouver, Toronto etc) and maybe does some things the NFL doesn't, nothing outlandish, but fixing errors of the NFL (like maybe video technology early).

Without Vince, there is no XFL. It was his idea, and his money financed it. It was a subsidiary of the WWF, which means it was going to be all his, period. Could he have used someone who knew football to run it for him? Of course, but what former NFL executive who still hoped to get back into the league would have dared to work with him? And if he'd found one, would he have left the guy alone to do his job? I think we all know the answer to that one.

In order to make this scenario work, you have to assume that Vince realizes what a mess he'd made and wants to try to fix it himself without giving up his authority over the league. Otherwise, there's no point; it would be like trying to win the American Revolution without George Washington.
 
Without Vince, there is no XFL. It was his idea, and his money financed it. It was a subsidiary of the WWF, which means it was going to be all his, period. Could he have used someone who knew football to run it for him? Of course, but what former NFL executive who still hoped to get back into the league would have dared to work with him? And if he'd found one, would he have left the guy alone to do his job? I think we all know the answer to that one.

In order to make this scenario work, you have to assume that Vince realizes what a mess he'd made and wants to try to fix it himself without giving up his authority over the league. Otherwise, there's no point; it would be like trying to win the American Revolution without George Washington.

i'm not saying he doesn't finance it, i'm just saying you keep him and his craziness away.
 
And why on earth would he give one cent to an enterprise he's not going to control? He didn't get where he was by being hands-off, and even if you could talk him into putting up the money for the first year without running things, he'd most likely have pulled his money if he thought that the league was becoming too much like the NFL. The whole point of the league was to do something radically different from "regular" football, not become a part of it.
 
And why on earth would he give one cent to an enterprise he's not going to control? He didn't get where he was by being hands-off, and even if you could talk him into putting up the money for the first year without running things, he'd most likely have pulled his money if he thought that the league was becoming too much like the NFL. The whole point of the league was to do something radically different from "regular" football, not become a part of it.

he'll have some control, but if you let the madman in with his crazy ideas he'll take full advantage. He's a control freak of the highest order (see WWF/E).

His hands on approach is probably the biggest thing that killed the XFL, his ideas and his insistence of it being over the top and being like wrestling is what made it a non-entity.
 
That and the fact that the football itself was subpar. There were a few NFL-caliber players, but the rest, if I remember correctly, were strictly sandlot types.
 
That and the fact that the football itself was subpar. There were a few NFL-caliber players, but the rest, if I remember correctly, were strictly sandlot types.

well they'd need to get either CFL players or fringe NFL players and maybe non-starters or those not paid that well to jump ship.
 
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