Keys to Success for the XFL?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Work WITH the NFL and become a farm league for them.

That’s pretty much it. Even then it might not work.

[Cyno]

Quit while you're ahead.

[DASH 243✅]

Free beer with every game you watch.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Don't

[axebomber]

Take the tv deal money and flee to a Caribbean Island before opening kick off.

[Sephiroth]

Be owned by someone who actually...ya know...knows football. Like a former player who gets some investors together.

[A damn road sign]

I think just not calling it the XFL again would’ve been a start. Those three letters have been used, by people in the company even, as one big punchline for the better part of 15 years.

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Know another billionaire and have him invest in the XFL.

[thecrusherwi]

Find a few stars and promote the shit out of them. For as oversaturated it is, Americans love football. I'm a huge football fan. The Super Bowl was last week and I would love for there to be a game this weekend. But people won't watch an XFL that's promoted as a monolithic brand like WWE. Sign guys like Tebow and Kaepernick and promote them like they're Hogan in 1985. Then they got a shot.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Feb 8, 2018 19:15:34 GMT -5 A damn road sign said:

I think just not calling it the XFL again would’ve been a start. Those three letters have been used, by people in the company even, as one big punchline for the better part of 15 years.

It is such a Vince McMahon thing to do. “I’ll show you! I’m going to take those three letters and you’re going to enjoy them, Goddamnit! Even if I have to shove them down your throat or up your ass!”

[Crappler El 0 M]

Get a lucrative television rights deal.

[rnrk supports BLM]

Take the money and build a VR program to strap Vince into for the remainder of his mortal years.

It'll be less of a cash sink in the long run.

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I think it needs Tim Tebow. I’m not going to get political, but I’m just going to say that he’s incredibly popular with the fan base the XFL seems to be marketing itself toward, and he would be the single player most likely to draw interest and intrigue in the league amongst fans who are disenchanted with the NFL.

Also need to make sure it gets included in all of the major fantasy sports platforms, including the daily stuff.

[Reflecto]

If I was going to try and make the XFL a success:

1. Focus the teams on cities that have no pro football team, and especially focus on places that have strong college teams already. Possibly focus on teams in Texas/SEC country, where football will NEVER die- so that even if football declines, the XFL will have a fanbase.
1a. Related: Try and get some players from the local college team on their local XFL team.

(Do it right, you'll have an immediate grassroots fanbase for the XFL teams and players those cities would love to see in the pros.)

2. Make a big selling point to the league "Guaranteed Multi-Year Contracts." If anything will be able to get the XFL to compete with the NFL, the only way to fight them is "lure NFL players to the XFL", and the biggest thing to fight the NFL and have a chance at stealing NFL players would be "if you sign for 5 years, you will PLAY for 5 years" against the "NFL multi-year contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on and you'll just be cut for cap reasons next year."

(Do it right, the XFL will be able to steal NFL players- which is always the biggest way secondary leagues compete with the major leagues.)

3. Build the XFL around spread offenses like most of the top college teams play in. It'd be the easiest way to separate the NFL from the XFL from the beginning, and it would give the XFL a good chance at luring top college stars: Most college teams play a spread offense (even knowing that spread offense QBs get eaten alive in the NFL), and this leads to a higher-scoring offense (high scoring- high ratings) and makes it so that the spread QBs would be at a premium to choose the NFL (which would give the XFL college stars to build around.)

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

They'll have to embrace being an alternative because anybody good enough to play in the NFL is going to pick the NFL every time.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Free milk and cookies at each game.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Feb 8, 2018 20:12:49 GMT -5 Reflecto said:

If I was going to try and make the XFL a success:

1. Focus the teams on cities that have no pro football team, and especially focus on places that have strong college teams already. Possibly focus on teams in Texas/SEC country, where football will NEVER die- so that even if football declines, the XFL will have a fanbase.
1a. Related: Try and get some players from the local college team on their local XFL team.

(Do it right, you'll have an immediate grassroots fanbase for the XFL teams and players those cities would love to see in the pros.)

2. Make a big selling point to the league "Guaranteed Multi-Year Contracts." If anything will be able to get the XFL to compete with the NFL, the only way to fight them is "lure NFL players to the XFL", and the biggest thing to fight the NFL and have a chance at stealing NFL players would be "if you sign for 5 years, you will PLAY for 5 years" against the "NFL multi-year contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on and you'll just be cut for cap reasons next year."

(Do it right, the XFL will be able to steal NFL players- which is always the biggest way secondary leagues compete with the major leagues.)

3. Build the XFL around spread offenses like most of the top college teams play in. It'd be the easiest way to separate the NFL from the XFL from the beginning, and it would give the XFL a good chance at luring top college stars: Most college teams play a spread offense (even knowing that spread offense QBs get eaten alive in the NFL), and this leads to a higher-scoring offense (high scoring- high ratings) and makes it so that the spread QBs would be at a premium to choose the NFL (which would give the XFL college stars to build around.)

Curious specifically about what cities you think would work for your first point? Like your top 5 or top 10 cities you think would work about that.

I’d love to learn something new since I don’t follow college football. My university didn’t even have a team!

[Nikki Heyman]

Don't pull a TNA and waste commentator time knocking the NFL. Just You be You, XFL.

Don't resort to sending cameras into the cheerleader locker rooms.

[Reflecto]

Feb 8, 2018 20:41:00 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Feb 8, 2018 20:12:49 GMT -5 Reflecto said:

If I was going to try and make the XFL a success:

1. Focus the teams on cities that have no pro football team, and especially focus on places that have strong college teams already. Possibly focus on teams in Texas/SEC country, where football will NEVER die- so that even if football declines, the XFL will have a fanbase.
1a. Related: Try and get some players from the local college team on their local XFL team.

(Do it right, you'll have an immediate grassroots fanbase for the XFL teams and players those cities would love to see in the pros.)

2. Make a big selling point to the league "Guaranteed Multi-Year Contracts." If anything will be able to get the XFL to compete with the NFL, the only way to fight them is "lure NFL players to the XFL", and the biggest thing to fight the NFL and have a chance at stealing NFL players would be "if you sign for 5 years, you will PLAY for 5 years" against the "NFL multi-year contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on and you'll just be cut for cap reasons next year."

(Do it right, the XFL will be able to steal NFL players- which is always the biggest way secondary leagues compete with the major leagues.)

3. Build the XFL around spread offenses like most of the top college teams play in. It'd be the easiest way to separate the NFL from the XFL from the beginning, and it would give the XFL a good chance at luring top college stars: Most college teams play a spread offense (even knowing that spread offense QBs get eaten alive in the NFL), and this leads to a higher-scoring offense (high scoring- high ratings) and makes it so that the spread QBs would be at a premium to choose the NFL (which would give the XFL college stars to build around.)

Curious specifically about what cities you think would work for your first point? Like your top 5 or top 10 cities you think would work about that.

I’d love to learn something new since I don’t follow college football. My university didn’t even have a team!

If I was going to decide where the XFL teams would be, my idea for them would be:

EAST:

Birmingham
South Bend
Louisville
Columbus


WEST:

Austin
Nebraska
Oklahoma
St. Louis

Birmingham would be held over from the original XFL (and Alabama has enough big teams it's easier to split the difference.

Six of the other places would have BCS schools [with only Louisville/Kentucky not a rousing success in the BCS ranks). St. Louis isn't close to University of Missouri for the seventh, but going to one of the cities that just lost an NFL team would give a likely chance for some success (with Oakland waiting until the XFL succeeds enough to expand more westward, as staying around the Southeast/Midwest is the best option for success to begin with.)

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