They'd probably have to cut the WWE-like crap in order to appear to a broader audience. So no Rock.
But then do you trust that they didn't go the wrestling route and fix the matches.If they go the "wresting route" of good guy teams and bad guy teams they would want to increase it.
WWE were walking very thin line there..But then do you trust that they didn't go the wrestling route and fix the matches.
But then do you trust that they didn't go the wrestling route and fix the matches.
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.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.
It might be just me but there's a difference between football and wrestling.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.
Best way is to have it fill the hole made by the USFL, and be a spring ball league.
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.
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.
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.