01-30-2018, 12:45 AM
I'll also say that I find it rather curious that he's going to keep the name XFL for the league. If this thing actually starts, I assume they'll give it a different name because it's not often in the marketing world where you see what is supposed to be a similar, but new product, given the same name as a prior product that flopped.
The XFL was branded as a hard-hitting, wacky-new-rules, Stone Cold Steve Austin-style "attitude era" and PG-13 foul-mouthedry football and it stunk and failed. So if the new version is said to be family friendly, safe, and supposedly NOT full of players that aren't fit to sit the Browns' bench...why use the same name as before? It's the XFL, but now it's different and totally won't suck?
Just seems odd to me. It would be like Apple deciding to name the iPod the Apple Lisa, for some reason. Or maybe Coca Cola naming Sierra Mist, New Coke. Or Ford releasing a new car that isn't an Edsel, but hey, let's just call it the Edsel. If Vince doesn't change the name to include USA or America or something like that before launch, I'd call that a blunder. Tune in for the Anthem, possibly stay for the game! Also, it's politics-free football but the only rule they are sure they'll have involves standing for the Anthem and not talking about politics...in a league where the guy who owns all 8 teams is married to a woman who was given a spot in the president's cabinet after a very public failed campaign to get elected? This is all kinds of wacky.
The XFL was branded as a hard-hitting, wacky-new-rules, Stone Cold Steve Austin-style "attitude era" and PG-13 foul-mouthedry football and it stunk and failed. So if the new version is said to be family friendly, safe, and supposedly NOT full of players that aren't fit to sit the Browns' bench...why use the same name as before? It's the XFL, but now it's different and totally won't suck?
Just seems odd to me. It would be like Apple deciding to name the iPod the Apple Lisa, for some reason. Or maybe Coca Cola naming Sierra Mist, New Coke. Or Ford releasing a new car that isn't an Edsel, but hey, let's just call it the Edsel. If Vince doesn't change the name to include USA or America or something like that before launch, I'd call that a blunder. Tune in for the Anthem, possibly stay for the game! Also, it's politics-free football but the only rule they are sure they'll have involves standing for the Anthem and not talking about politics...in a league where the guy who owns all 8 teams is married to a woman who was given a spot in the president's cabinet after a very public failed campaign to get elected? This is all kinds of wacky.
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