253hawk":3kh3dg8c said:Vince McMahon just made the announcement. Honestly I'm kind of excited to be able to watch a league that has some semblance of parity.
JSeahawks":ro7u2uv6 said:253hawk":ro7u2uv6 said:Vince McMahon just made the announcement. Honestly I'm kind of excited to be able to watch a league that has some semblance of parity.
One of the NFL's biggest problems, imo, is that there's not enough good quarterbacks to go around. Its a league of have's, and have not's, at the position. If there's going to parity in the XFL it will be because all of them have crappy quarterbacks. Which will make for lots of bad football.
XxXdragonXxX":1az22bu0 said:Sounds like theyre trying to capitalize on the political climate of the NFL by not allowing any politics or social issues, forcing players to stand for the anthem, and not allowing any players with criminal records in.
Its gonna fail so hard. Especially because of the no criminal records thing. They could capitalize on players who cant get a job in the NFL because they repeatedly got in trouble (Manziel,Josh Gordon even though hes back now...) but instead theyre going to close the door to the best talents they have a hope in signing.
gowazzu02":1aqu8e7w said:XxXdragonXxX":1aqu8e7w said:I still think the best thing would be to go pay all the top high school recruits and compete with college instead of the nfl.
Uncle Si":3t8j95js said:Quick reminder... conversations regarding politics and social climate, even in regards to the NFL, must involve Seahawks players and be posted in the Off Field Topic Discussion thread.
seaky12":1k2r0wei said:Meh. Vince is merely trying to capitalize on the negativity surrounding the NFL by reviving the XFL. While I'm sure they'll siphon a small percentage of viewers from the NFL, it won't be a significant chunk. And really, how long will they hang around for a second rate product with sub-par talent?
The timing to revive the XFL is good when you consider the portion of viewers they'll poach from the NFL, the nostalgic viewers, and potential boost from the NFL CBA expiring. I'm sure the XFL will probably do okay for the first couple of seasons at least. But after that, very few people are going to tune in to see a bunch of mediocre choir boys on the gridiron. And the players that do have talent will use it as a tryout for the NFL again.
But I'll tune in for the aforementioned nostalgia value. And probably tune out a couple of games later, just as I did the first time.
gowazzu02":10yufn2n said:seaky12":10yufn2n said:Meh. Vince is merely trying to capitalize on the negativity surrounding the NFL by reviving the XFL. While I'm sure they'll siphon a small percentage of viewers from the NFL, it won't be a significant chunk. And really, how long will they hang around for a second rate product with sub-par talent?
The timing to revive the XFL is good when you consider the portion of viewers they'll poach from the NFL, the nostalgic viewers, and potential boost from the NFL CBA expiring. I'm sure the XFL will probably do okay for the first couple of seasons at least. But after that, very few people are going to tune in to see a bunch of mediocre choir boys on the gridiron. And the players that do have talent will use it as a tryout for the NFL again.
But I'll tune in for the aforementioned nostalgia value. And probably tune out a couple of games later, just as I did the first time.
Yeah, it gives the folks who say they wont watch the nfl anymore for "whatever" reason an avenue to wet their professional football appetite.
XxXdragonXxX":2rt71wn9 said:Sounds like theyre trying to capitalize on the political climate of the NFL by not allowing any politics or social issues, forcing players to stand for the anthem, and not allowing any players with criminal records in.
Its gonna fail so hard. Especially because of the no criminal records thing. They could capitalize on players who cant get a job in the NFL because they repeatedly got in trouble (Manziel,Josh Gordon even though hes back now...) but instead theyre going to close the door to the best talents they have a hope in signing.
gowazzu02":18uvuu8v said:Yeah, it gives the folks who say they wont watch the nfl anymore for "whatever" reason an avenue to wet their professional football appetite.
chris98251":2non1ihe said:Well when will it compete first off, and Vince if he could put that money up may be smarter to go to London and Europe and start there and lure NFL players while developing Europeans.
That would get the NFLS attention as well as possibly last longer.
Sgt. Largent":nwjszvto said:gowazzu02":nwjszvto said:Yeah, it gives the folks who say they wont watch the nfl anymore for "whatever" reason an avenue to wet their professional football appetite.
That's a joke though, the XFL won't even be a better product than college football.
It'll be a lateral move from the arena league, and if you're into that? Great I guess, but it's a terrible product, especially if you're trying to fill the void of enjoying the NFL.
IMO this is the worst time to bring the XFL back. We're already barraged with 24/7/365 ad naseum NFL coverage, TNF, SNF, MNF. Can't get away from it.............so I doubt with that football fatigue that people are going to want to watch a watered down version of something they're already tired of.