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Post by Porky's Butthole on Feb 28, 2011 21:39:43 GMT -5
I really enjoyed it. Watched every game I could.
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Post by danboone2006 on Feb 28, 2011 22:00:05 GMT -5
I won a $500 watch party courtesy of XFL and Buffalo Wild Wings for a XFL game. We ended up watching Sunday Night Heat while eating so many wings it was painful.
I loved the XFL
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Post by chaimwitz on Feb 28, 2011 22:04:16 GMT -5
i enjoyed it. but i will say the NFL gives vince no credit and they bashed technology he created yet they use it to this day. also a few went on to join the nfl and win superbowls
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Post by chaimwitz on Feb 28, 2011 22:06:13 GMT -5
yet he's in he NFL record books and holds a record no one will ever touch. he's better than people think
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Post by GaTechGrad on Feb 28, 2011 23:06:19 GMT -5
I liked it until (like some purple wearing wrestlers) they started shoving the L.A. Xtreme down everyone's throats. Whether it was rigged or not, it was clear that there was a strong bias in favor of L.A.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2011 23:08:29 GMT -5
I enjoyed the camera work, and I especially enjoyed Rod Smart.
"He Hate Me?" Most ironic name ever.
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Post by loverman247 on Mar 1, 2011 2:20:32 GMT -5
I had season tix for the L.A. Xtreme and even went to the Million Dollar Game. I was amazed at how bloodthirsty LA fans were when, in their first home game against the Demons, the Demon QB was sacked and injured and the majority of the fans cheered him getting carted off on a stretcher.
Other than stupid LA fans, I did enjoy the football even though I knew it was nowhere near the NFL and never would be.
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Post by cookiethemonster on Mar 1, 2011 2:22:57 GMT -5
I never cared for football in any form or fashion
However, it was exciting to see the WWE try something different.
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Post by kevservo on Mar 1, 2011 3:23:57 GMT -5
The XFL was actually a great idea in principle. Just executed horribly, horribly wrong. There were a lot of fantastic ideas that the NFL actually copied, such as the SkyCam and hell, Tommy Maddox was able to parlay his time with the LA XTreme into a brief, but successful NFL comeback with the Steelers. The first place they went wrong was when Vince thought he could compete with the NFL.
But I don't really blame Vinnie Mac. Attitude was at its height, he was making more money than God, but Vince McMahon was the personification of hubris to think he could compete with the NFL right off the bat. But they held games in February, right after the Super Bowl. Do you have any idea how cold it is in February? If the season had started just a few weeks later in the spring when America's chomping at the bit for the new season to start, maybe it could have worked. The weather would have been warmer and they could have gotten more people to buy tickets...maybe. It was a big mistake for them to call out the NFL in their promos too, calling themselves 'real' football and the NFL a bunch of pansies.
Yeah, bad idea.
The second was the quality of the football. Should have signed names people actually recognize instead of going with the practice squad washouts the XFL rosters were filled with. There's a reason these guys couldn't even cut it on the scout teams in the NFL. The key to any good football league is good football, and that's something the XFL just did not have. You know what you get when you combine bad football with a bunch of nobodies? Apathy.
Third was probably the thing that turned people off the product the most....trying to create angles in football. Remember the 'feud' that they were trying to manufacture between Jesse Ventura and the coach of the Hitmen and the guy refused to play along? Just a train wreck.
So to sum up, the XFL = great idea, horrible execution. I really, really wanted it to be huge. There's no such thing as too much football, baby.
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Post by cookiethemonster on Mar 1, 2011 3:26:37 GMT -5
They should have just made the XFL a complete work
Players grabbing the ball and the defense starts giving out piledrivers
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Post by kevservo on Mar 1, 2011 3:31:35 GMT -5
Perfect time to have started the season would have been March-July. Players are dropping onto the waiver wire like flies. Take advantage by scooping up quality, pro-caliber players who were just unfortunate victims of the salary cap.
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Post by buttersock on Mar 1, 2011 3:55:18 GMT -5
If Vince wanted Real Football, shouldn't he own a rugby league instead???
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Post by kyromax on Mar 1, 2011 4:02:29 GMT -5
The players the XFL had were not even CFL worthy, in fact they had a lot of lower tear CFL players in that league.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Mar 1, 2011 9:58:19 GMT -5
i enjoyed it. but i will say the NFL gives vince no credit and they bashed technology he created yet they use it to this day. also a few went on to join the nfl and win superbowls THIS!I tell everyone I know that Vince created that camera angle for the XFL, so if NOTHING else, XFL was a good thing for that.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Mar 1, 2011 10:14:04 GMT -5
Ah man the XFL inspired me and my friend's favorite game in high school. Pillow Ball.
It started off as a 1 off copy of the XFL "coin toss" with a huge pile of couch cushions and pillows to prevent injury. Then we started hiding the ball in the pillows so you basically had two guys crashing into the pile and the ball would go flying. Which then evolved into multiple piles and a more strategic game evolved.
It was the best game ever, somehow no one got injured, and it's all because of the XFL. Thank you XFL.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Mar 1, 2011 10:15:10 GMT -5
Also, I had a crazy baseball coach that owned a card shop... and that spring he was giving away all the XFL cards he had to us as "rewards" for doing well
I wish I would have saved my He Hate Me.
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Post by 06vwgti on Mar 1, 2011 10:28:24 GMT -5
I didnt have a problem with it, since I did enjoy just watching football. But I also do enjoy watching arena football league when its on too
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Post by Lardlad on Mar 1, 2011 12:31:42 GMT -5
I watched every single game and thought it was going to go a lot further than it did.
I don't care for NFL, CFL, etc. but when Vince came out with the XFL I just sat there watching every game and became a real fan of the XFL product.
My favorite team was the NY/NJ Hitmen because I am such a huge Bret Hart mark. I even remember buying hats, shirts, jerseys, etc.
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Post by normcoleman on Mar 1, 2011 15:27:27 GMT -5
I used to watch every game. The product was below CFL but above Arena ball.
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Post by chaimwitz on Mar 1, 2011 19:00:34 GMT -5
the NFL now has their own minor league and.....yea we see how much attention its gotten
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