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01-25-2018, 10:26 AM | #1 |
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Vince McMahon's XFL 2.0 to be announced today
Vince McMahon's XFL 2.0 Football League to be announced today
He'll be doing a press conference for his new media company, "Alpha Entertainment" later this afternoon. Last edited by slik; 01-25-2018 at 11:29 AM. |
01-25-2018, 10:33 AM | #2 |
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I'll watch when it launches. If it's entertaining, I'll stick around for the season.
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01-25-2018, 10:40 AM | #3 |
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I'm really worried about this.
Worried that if anthems or kneeling is mentioned that I may rupture something laughing so hard. |
01-25-2018, 10:41 AM | #4 |
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BTW Slik, slight mistake. The trademark registered is, amazingly, UrFL or URFL
http://uk.businessinsider.com/vince-...ve-xfl-2017-12 |
01-25-2018, 10:43 AM | #5 |
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"Your Football League"
Ahahahahaha, I love Vince McMahon |
01-25-2018, 10:53 AM | #6 |
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01-25-2018, 11:16 AM | #7 |
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01-25-2018, 11:48 AM | #8 |
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01-25-2018, 11:19 AM | #9 |
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So glad Head cleaned himself up and found work. |
01-25-2018, 11:26 AM | #10 |
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While XFL is going to be the headline-grabber, I think this is a potentially much bigger, wider-reaching story.
1. It's Vince diversifying his stock, creating a whole other company (advertising "investment opportunities"), that he's going to great lengths to state is outside of the WWE Umbrella. A big part of me sees that and thinks "tax dodge"/"inheritance nest egg". 2. WWE shareholders are, historically, very jumpy at the idea of Vince McMahon not being involved with WWE any more - stock plummeted when Trump "bought" Monday Night RAW. There's a perception that Vince can't do anything but wrestling, and that nobody but Vince can do wrestling So while telling everyone that this isn't coming from WWE money obviously seems like a way to appease shareholders who might get scared at the idea of a disastrous XFL relaunch, that doesn't completely wash with me, because it still suggests a Vince who, if only out of necessity, will be considerably less involved with WWE. 3. Vince setting up his own company, separate from WWE, and separate from WWE shareholders, makes me think he's at least more open to the idea of selling up than he's ever been before. He's seen the sale of UFC go through, and seen that it hasn't materially affected Dana White's position in the company. I don't necessarily think he will sell, but I think he's actually thinking about it rather than simply dismissing the thought as he would have a few years ago. With media mergers and buy-outs the talk of the day, and Vince not getting any younger, I can see this being his time to finally sell up - particularly with FOX shopping around and in dire need of content. 4. And this might be the big one. Vince started registering football-related trademarks around the same time that Trump started openly criticizing the NFL. The first obvious thing to come to mind is that Vince is canny enough to capitalize on that, and know that having an alternative league would play well with Trump, and with Trump supporters - who might want to boycott the NFL, but have a tough time committing to it due to them lacking a "Trump-friendly" alternative to shift their attentions to. The alternate, and frankly more fun explanation, is that Vince moved first. Vince began the groundwork for an XFL reboot, and put in a word with Trump, who began using his platform to systematically undermine the NFL in the eyes of his supporters. In another lifetime, "Vince McMahon is exerting his influence on the President of the United States" would be an utterly bonkers theory - but we know they're close. And, while Trump spends all his time on Twitter, he only actually follows around 50 people; take out members of his family, his staff, Trump businesses, and FOX News hosts, and you're down to single figures. One of those he follows is Vincent Kennedy McMahon. |
01-25-2018, 11:29 AM | #11 |
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Commissioner Head > Commissioner Roger Goodell
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01-25-2018, 11:31 AM | #12 |
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I have no doubt Trump will encourage people to watch it, with he and Vince being long-time friends. And I think with Trump's endorsement it guarantees that first game will be a big ratings getter.
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01-25-2018, 11:35 AM | #13 |
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No eM pleH on head..not head
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01-25-2018, 11:35 AM | #14 |
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01-25-2018, 11:35 AM | #15 |
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Trump will be the first commissioner
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01-25-2018, 11:36 AM | #16 |
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01-25-2018, 11:47 AM | #17 |
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I expect to see twitter handles on the back of their jerseys now.
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01-25-2018, 11:48 AM | #18 |
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01-25-2018, 11:50 AM | #19 |
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Mine is Perry I don't remember |
01-25-2018, 11:52 AM | #20 |
boop/bop/beep
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Liz Henwood
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01-25-2018, 11:57 AM | #21 |
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I can't remember my kindergarten teacher's name, so I'll go with the classic porn star name of pet's name + street you grew up on.
MAX DEEPWOOD |
01-25-2018, 12:00 PM | #22 |
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Can't wait for more of this.
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01-25-2018, 12:13 PM | #23 |
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Kano Brown.
That's actually not too bad. |
01-25-2018, 08:04 PM | #24 |
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01-25-2018, 02:06 PM | #25 |
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01-25-2018, 02:39 PM | #26 |
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20 minutes |
01-25-2018, 02:39 PM | #27 |
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If the rumored 2020 launch date ends up being true, that already gives the revival a huge advantage over the original. A lot more time to properly build the league and training for teams.
Quality of games probably still going to be hit-or-miss but not as bad of a disaster like the original league. |
01-25-2018, 02:44 PM | #28 |
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The Revival are great.
This, not so much. |
01-25-2018, 02:46 PM | #29 |
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The Revival might play in this league, who knows?
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01-25-2018, 02:59 PM | #30 |
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I honestly am curious as to how this will shake out.
Realistically, the original XFL wasn't as big of a failure as everyone hyperbolically misremembers. Just hope the biggest lesson was learned from the first go-round of nearly complete divorce from wrestling. Do like they did with Linda's political career... short of firing people for mentioning the other product, mayhaps. I mean, having JR in the booth was awesome, but backstage skits and trying to force "angles" (like the one coach who said he wanted no part of any potential wrestling style nonsense and was just there to coach football, and they kept trying to manufacture some drama around him to react to and he kept no-selling). |
01-25-2018, 03:04 PM | #31 |
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01-25-2018, 03:00 PM | #32 |
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You think the new XFL stars will be used to put over the old XFL stars?
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01-25-2018, 03:01 PM | #33 |
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Here we go...
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01-25-2018, 03:01 PM | #34 |
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Why are they just doing the WWE 2k18 advert without Snoop Dogg?
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01-25-2018, 03:01 PM | #35 |
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yeah, 2020
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01-25-2018, 03:02 PM | #36 |
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ELIMINATING HALF TIME
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01-25-2018, 03:05 PM | #37 |
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01-25-2018, 03:07 PM | #38 |
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No talks with anyone in TV or streaming.
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01-25-2018, 03:08 PM | #39 |
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I like the new logo.
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01-25-2018, 03:09 PM | #40 |
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I wish I had hundreds of millions of dollars to waste.
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