XFL returning?

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(01-27-2018, 09:16 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Never say never. Fans have all the power here. If he puts a good product on the field, it will grow while the NFL is starting to die among some people. Face it. If you love watching professional football, your probably going to watch a game or two of XFL. The more the NFL ticks you off, your likely to watch even more, right?

They are going to have to change their original plan if they want long term success. People did tune in for a game or two the first time, and that was about it, so the ratings for the XFL petered out in a hurry.

If it looks like preseason NFL it'll get old quick...again.  Also, the Arena League exists, so are mad NFL fans flocking to that yet? I can see why they can't//won't watch the CFL because it's too different and/or it isn't American, but if people really are dying for an alternative to the NFL then the Arena League should experience an uptick in fan interest, right? Or maybe people are just going to watch college football rather than any professional football...I don't know.

I only know my own experience, but people who are mad at the NFL have a tendency to cite that the players make too much money, so the new XFL may be in a no-win situation if they are trying to please consumers who want players to make much lower wages, but also don't want to tune it to watch the types of players who have to take a fraction of the paycheck they'd get if they were in the NFL.

At any rate, it doesn't look like the new XFL is going to run the season at the same time as the NFL, so it's not really direct competition in that sense. One of the main reasons cited that the USFL failed is because it moved its season to coincide with the NFL. So people aren't going to have to choose between the NFL or XFL and can watch one, the other, or both if they so choose. But like I said, it's going to come down to their ability to attract actual NFL talent. If it looks like a whole league of pre-season following 6 months of NFL football, I wouldn't expect people to be too hyped to sit through it all.

Also, if a knock against the NFL is that refs are biased and/or it's rigged I'm not sure the fact that every team in the XFL is owned by one guy who made his billions selling scripted stuff is going to sit well.