Ryan Glasspiegel
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The Rock announced this morning that the XFL will return in the Spring of 2022:
XFL returns SPRING 2022 🏈
As owners, we’re proud to champion our XFL players, coaches, cities and fans into an electrifying 2022 season!
It’s an uphill battle – but we’re hungry, humble and no one will outwork us.
A league of culture, passion & purpose. #XFL✊🏾#Spring2022 pic.twitter.com/jY0VWGj33Y
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 1, 2020
The XFL somewhere between possibly and probably would have soldiered into a second season of its relaunch if the pandemic had not happened. After a robust first week of ratings, they trended downward in the next two weeks. The third week of games averaged 1.61 million viewers, which is still a viable TV property — this is better viewership than a lot of NBA and MLB regular season games that air nationally, and nearly every college hoops game before March — but we never got to see what the bottom was.
In the gap year for the XFL, The Rock and his team need to really figure out how to make the football more aesthetically pleasing. The key is quarterback play. While the NFL has unprecedented depth at the position right now, there are still only about 25-30 QBs on the planet who make for good TV. The XFL needs coaches who will not rely on pocket passers for their offensive strategy, as the talent they had could not execute that style in a manner that is entertaining to watch.
Might have been a wise decision for him to avoid politics as the owner of a temporarily defunct league. Just sayin, it’s a 50/50 country and an “up hill battle” with 50% pushing you back down the hill might not be so smart.
But what do I know……
I was hoping their tagline would be “No Politics, Just Football” or something similar. Not likely, of course.
Will not watch.
So, in other words, China bought the XFL and they have to figure out how to get Americans to watch so that they can have more kneeling and more divisive messages on helmets and on the field.
No thanks.
Not watching was going to but not now cook that one up dork
Another league to BOYCOTT… not that there was much hope for it to begin with…
So, the XFL…”A league of culture, passion & purpose”….says Pebbles.
I’m not an ad guy…but it sounds more like a FIFA, or UEFA slogan.
It’ll die before that.
It’ll be an uphill battle alright, you goof. Waiting for someone to proclaim what a great businessman pebbles is.
When the Crock cuts ties with China publically, then they can start. Nobody will watch communist state football.
Pebbles is Great 👍😄