Triple Kelly
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Post by Triple Kelly on Feb 21, 2009 23:06:20 GMT -5
I remember Lorne Michaels being very pissed off at Ebersol & Vince for interrupting his big "J-Lo" show. The Mango/J-Lo skit was pretty funny for something with Chris Kattan and J-Lo in it; however, the episode sucked. Hehehehe. Freaking out over J-Lo's "BIG SHOW". What a maroon. I think watching XFL is more entertaining than J.Lo or Chris Kattan.
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Post by Candyman's surprise on Feb 21, 2009 23:12:41 GMT -5
An empty box is more entertaining than Corky Romano.
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Triple Kelly
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Post by Triple Kelly on Feb 21, 2009 23:28:00 GMT -5
An empty box is more entertaining than Corky Romano. You speak the truth.
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Post by Nacho STAYS Hyped on Feb 21, 2009 23:39:10 GMT -5
I didn't know that Mike Adamle was a part of this.
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Post by Candyman's surprise on Feb 21, 2009 23:51:45 GMT -5
The utter excitement in that promo is a pure masterpiece of comedy. I wonder if the announcers were paid out of a poll of money. The more enthusiastic an announcer is, the more money said announcer can get from the pool. You know, giving them an incentive to be enthusiastic.
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Post by Se7en: Horse That Wrote Poems on Feb 21, 2009 23:51:50 GMT -5
If the XFL was around today, how many teams do you think they would have? A 16 team, two conference league with teams in Las Vegas, San Francisco, L.A., Albuquerque, Colorado Springs, Portland, Tucson, El Paso, Birmingham, Memphis, Orlando, New York/New Jersey, Chicago, Hartford, Richmond and Toronto. LOL From the XFL wikipedia: Personally, i loved the XFL and my personal memories of the league are all positive and pretty damn vivid still. I remember many of the "best" players and some the noe-so-great ones. Like Chuck Pulari. I hate that guy. Most importantly, I actually own, get this, ALL EIGHT XFL JERSEYS!! THANKS EBAY!
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Post by default on Feb 22, 2009 0:00:21 GMT -5
Man, I remember when XFL launched, a T-SHIRT STORE opened in my town. I told my mom I really wanted to go, so she took me out and I had her drop $18 on a HITMEN shirt.
Oh and that store? I don't even think it lasted as long as the XFL.
I still have that shirt. It's started to get holes and although I purchased almost all my high school shirts from my wardrobe (minus my 99 cent JCPenney Bret Hart WCW tee), it's remained here and for the past few years has served as my drinking shirt.
I remember my grandfather watched pretty much every game they aired, as he's a huge football fan with no favorite team outside of Penn State.
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Post by lildude8218 on Feb 22, 2009 0:02:45 GMT -5
We actually took it very seriously here. Orlando's only other pro franchise is the Orlando Magic who were sucking hardcore at that point. I think most, if not all, of the home games were sold out or at least close to it. It was nice to have a football team to get behind. Tampa's over 2 hours away, Jacksonviille's about 2 hours away, Miami's 4 hours from here. We need a team.
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Post by Methusael86 on Feb 22, 2009 0:03:04 GMT -5
I remember watching a game and there was a camera angle where the camera showed a vertical view of the field like you were playing a Madden NFL game and thought that was pretty cool.
Other then that and "He Hate Me" that's it.
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Post by Triple Kelly on Feb 22, 2009 0:22:34 GMT -5
The utter excitement in that promo is a pure masterpiece of comedy. I wonder if the announcers were paid out of a poll of money. The more enthusiastic an announcer is, the more money said announcer can get from the pool. You know, giving them an incentive to be enthusiastic. There is a section in the book that says Lawler (who called XFL games with the Padres tv announcer Matt Vasgersian) was "punished" by Vince for making some comment about Honda, who was a sponsor of XFL games at the time. So Vince fired Lawler's wife Stacy The Kat, knowing Lawler would resign to follow her.
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Feb 22, 2009 0:27:59 GMT -5
Tommy Maddox ftw.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Feb 22, 2009 1:23:41 GMT -5
I was stoked when I heard about it. I always wanted a second football league to make it, after the WFL and USFL failed. I followed the Demons every week up to the championship game (we had to lose to a f***ing LA team). I knew the football was bad, but was still bummed as hell when the announcement came that it was folding.
And I'm not giving up hope for secondary leagues. The United Football League has my blessing and support.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Feb 22, 2009 1:32:17 GMT -5
The utter excitement in that promo is a pure masterpiece of comedy. I wonder if the announcers were paid out of a poll of money. The more enthusiastic an announcer is, the more money said announcer can get from the pool. You know, giving them an incentive to be enthusiastic. There is a section in the book that says Lawler (who called XFL games with the Padres tv announcer Matt Vasgersian) was "punished" by Vince for making some comment about Honda, who was a sponsor of XFL games at the time. So Vince fired Lawler's wife Stacy The Kat, knowing Lawler would resign to follow her. The wrestling announcers were exposed as being extremely out of their element calling a non-worked sport while attempting to maintain the energy level and constant selling of the game that they do in wrestling. I've heard that Jim Ross did do some football coverage in the past and had Jim Ross been allowed to do the game it may have been ok. But it was the character JR from the WWE attempting to exist in the real world. I recall he did his overly exited tune in next week because BAH GAWD WE WILL NEVER FORGET THIS DAY at the end of some game that ended with a loopsided score. The juxpostion was to bizare for even me.
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Post by Alucard on Feb 22, 2009 2:36:59 GMT -5
My family enjoyed it.
A friend of the family was even featured as one of the Memphis Maniax superfans.
I've still got my football somewhere >_>
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Post by Paul Servo on Feb 22, 2009 2:41:41 GMT -5
We actually took it very seriously here. Orlando's only other pro franchise is the Orlando Magic who were sucking hardcore at that point. I think most, if not all, of the home games were sold out or at least close to it. It was nice to have a football team to get behind. Tampa's over 2 hours away, Jacksonviille's about 2 hours away, Miami's 4 hours from here. We need a team. Orlando did have the Solar Bears and Predators at the time.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Feb 22, 2009 3:47:15 GMT -5
Does any one have the Simpsons clip where Homer Is eagerly awaiting the kick off of the second XFL season, only to be told by Marge that it's not returning?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 22, 2009 4:18:01 GMT -5
I remember I was at a party the night it debuted and I INSISTED on watching it. So I watched the XFL game. Later, I grabbed my bottle of, um.......tonic water (yeah, that's it) and went to sleep in the crawl space.
The two weren't related, but, that's what I remember of the XFL.
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Post by Ramses on Feb 22, 2009 4:38:33 GMT -5
He Hate Me.
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Post by Chuckie Finster on Feb 22, 2009 6:24:22 GMT -5
I remember the sprint for the ball being the cointoss becoming a way of deciding who got the ball first on playgrounds for years after the XFL. You have to admit, having two guts spring after a ball to determine who gets the ball first is way cooler than a cointoss.
In general, all the different rules twirks that were different from the NFL, like the PAT kick being banned and converting what would be a 2PC in the NFL would get you a PAT. I remember the cameraguys on the field looking like someone prepared to be bitten by K9's and how they would fall down a lot due to all that gear.
I remember Vince standing on the 50 at the Las Vegas location at the first ever game saying, "THIS IS THE X! F! L!!!!!!!!!!!!" in that patent Vince voice and how WWE bragged about getting 55 million viewers that first week.
I heard a story that Bill Plaschke of the LA Times told about how he talked to the women in the hot tub in the LA Coliseum in one of the endzones (which was featured prominently before and after a lot of the commercials) and all the girls told him they were strippers who were paid to be there.
I still remember Michael Cole on Heat (when Heat was in WWF New York) saying "In a desperate attempt to boost ratings, XFL cameras are going to infiltrate the (insert team name here) cheerleaders' locker room to give our fans an inside look" and then Cole got all giddy about it. Might not have been those exact words, but I keenly remember him saying "In a desperate attempt to boost ratings". To openly say that (and promote it on the commercials for that week) was saying something. And that was the third week of games. From 55 million viewers to saying "please watch, you'll see naked women on NBC!", that's quite the rise and fall.
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Post by Killah Ray on Feb 22, 2009 10:48:38 GMT -5
I had the football and a NY Hitmen jersey when it debuted. I have no clue what happened to either though....
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