I love these team names.

All of 'em are badass and have an edge. Kinda takes u back to the original XFL, which was meant to have a bullying and wrestling flavor.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/274 ... ight-teams

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The XFL revealed the names and logos for its eight teams Wednesday, a long-awaited step toward its February 2020 debut.

The names will be:

Dallas Renegades

Houston Roughnecks

Los Angeles Wildcats

New York Guardians

St. Louis BattleHawks

Seattle Dragons

Tampa Bay Vipers

Washington Defenders


The XFL has spent the past two years determining team locations, signing stadium agreements and hiring head coaches. Its teams will play in a combination of NFL, MLB and MLS facilities. The league office has sent hundreds of draft pool invitations to prospective players and last month announced its first signing: veteran quarterback Landry Jones.

"We're anxiously awaiting the Labor Day cuts that will take place where there will be another group of players available,'' commissioner Oliver Luck said. "Things have gone as well as expected.''

Next up will be finalizing and publicizing a rulebook that the league says will offer a reimagined game of football, including unique extra points, a modified setup for overtime and a shorter play clock to accelerate game tempo.

A draft is scheduled for October, followed by a minicamp in December and training camp in January 2020.

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And of course st louis has the worst one the battlehawks

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

So... why is this even happening? Everybody knows it is going to fail. Everyone.
Maybe one of our more finance knowledgeable guys can help me here, because this has the feeling of a way of creating losses to avoid taxes or something. Why else would this happen?
After the hilariously predictable failure of the AFL earlier this year and the quick death of the original XFL, why would anyone expect that the xfl will do anything other than fail?
Its built on two flawed premises. First is that these is a desire for more football after the super bowl. Maybe for a few weeks, sure we miss it. But that's about it. Second is that any football is better than no football. Yeah we've proved that poorly played football doesn't move meters and guys who cant make nfl rosters or practice rosters are not compelling television.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

The AAF was succeeding. It just didn't have the financial backing needed and was hoping for the NFL to save it. The XFL has the money needed to try it for real.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Not as good as the original names which were all criminal allusions or mental illnesses.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I think there is a window of opportunity to capture football fans in May to mid July.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Looking forward to becoming a lifelong Houston Roughnecks fan

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Roughnecks are oil rig workers?

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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Gambling and daily fantasy.

With more states allowing sports books, they will pick up viewers looking for Dallas-Tampa to come in under 42.5

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

This will fail miserably just like every other secondary football league in my lifetime.

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I don't know whether the Titans are going to be suing to enforce the trademark on its Oilers logo but that roughneck logo is very close to infringing.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

They'll take action on a Vince McMahon production?

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

FFS they bet on preseason NFL...

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

A cousin of this guy:



I wish I had enough money to blow it all on spring-league football in San Antonio and Memphis. Everyone thinks they're gonna be the one to finally do it.

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Opening game footage

Marc Trestman is involved. How can it not succeed?

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The CFLs answer to Bill Belicheck.

They need gimmicks to make this work like painting circles in the endzone where if you catch a TD there, it is worth 10 points. Each sack not only counts as a sack, but you get a point.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

That coach is why coaches suck. It's a cute and funny moment but he's throwing his hat

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That Houston logo is pretty badass.

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In case one doesn't feel like clicking around to actually see the logos that everyone is calling badass.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

1. Abolish placekicking and goal posts. Give teams the choice of a 2 point conversion from the 2, a 3 point conversion from the 15, or 0 points but the opposing team gets the ball on their 5 instead of their 25.

2. Make all punts that travel 40+ yards beyond the line of scrimmage live balls the way a kickoff is today. Call it the Randall Cunningham rule, and make defensive coordinators think about if they have to keep a single high free safety in case the QB punts out of the shotgun.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Why do you always come up with the dumbest rule suggestions?

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The Roughnecks logo won't make it to Opening Day without the NFL suing over ripping off the Houston Oilers.

I think they got the inspiration for the St. Louis logo from the tattoo of some dumbass in O'Fallon. "yeah dude an i unno it's like fight or flight, right, y'know? an 's'like yeah man i'm both. I'm both at once an' shit."

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They and the Dallas Renegades are the best ones, IMO.

"BattleHawks"...woof, that's bad.

The DC Defenders sounds and looks like a soccer team. I hope they fold first.

They're $5 designs from Fiverr.

https://www.fiverr.com/gigs/esports-logo

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

In general, because I was a fan of Sodbuster Kenny Jay.

Specifically, I had watched a few minutes of Big3 earlier in the day and found how they implemented "dumb" rule changes to liven up a game full of old men interesting.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Nice alien vagina

2022: The XFL is returnin'!

the 8 head coaches announced.

Two are Wade Phillips and Hines Ward

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evidently the rock is investing in this one instead of vince mcmahon. i also love the list of coaching achievements for rod woodson.

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