XFL returning?

[*Nately120*]

(02-03-2018, 09:44 AM)kevin Wrote: With the NFL leaving cities, and each week we see that bench players can star in the NFL, there is a need for a new league.  There are super rich out there wanting to be owners the NFL has passed over.  It is simply supply and demand.  The NFL can not supply the demand and it's more than time for a new league.  If done right, this could be as big as AFL in 1960's was, which we now call the AFC. There is also a major NFL vs Players Union Strike coming around 2020 that could give a new league amazing TV ratings and players jumping over if CBS and FOX NFL games suffer a strike.

This could happen, but in all cases where alternate football leagues were viable the new leagues provided competitive or better salaries than the NFL.  If the XFL isn't willing or able to pay the way the NFL is you just aren't going to see players taking massive pay cuts to start in the XFL.  Additionally, the fact that we just saw a SB MVP who hasn't been deemed a starting QB in years might hurt the "Start in the XFL rather than sit the bench in the NFL" argument.

Right now there are alternatives to the NFL in the CFL and the Arena League (and I'm sure there are more).  So we don't actually need to wait 2 years for a whole new alternative to the NFL to emerge for people who are mad at the NFL but still want to watch football, or for players who would rather start in a secondary league than sit the bench in the NFL.

Again, unless the XFL provides much better pay than the original version did I don't see why it's going to be any more attractive to NFL talent than the CFL or Arena League is right now.