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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09X6nRScac ESPN's documentary on the XFL is premiering tomorrow and if you aren't excited you are dumb as gently caress or maybe you just like good, real sports. Either way, it should be a fun hour of TV. quote:"I don't think there's ever enough sex," McMahon said. "I thought that there was the right complement of sexuality and a right complement of confrontation and the right complement of real good, hard-hitting football. I think that the viewer experienced the game." Quick summary if you happened to miss out on this very weird part of sports (/sports entertainment) history, c/o Wikipedia: quote:Created as a 50–50 joint venture between NBC and WWF-owned subsidiary WWE Properties International, Inc.[5] under the company name "XFL, LLC", the XFL was created as a "single-entity league", meaning that the teams were not individually owned and operated franchises (as in the NFL), but that the league was operated as a single business unit. Vince McMahon's original plan was to purchase the Canadian Football League (after the CFL initially approached him about purchasing the Toronto Argonauts) and "have it migrate south,"[6] while NBC was moving ahead at the time with Time Warner to create a football league of their own.[7] Here's the complete inaugural game, with my boys the NY/NJ Hitmen vs the Las Vegas Outlaws, starting with a weird rear end promo by The Rock and featuring Jesse Ventura on commentary and score updates from Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler. After a lot of bad game it goes to bonus coverage of other bad game Chicago Enforcers vs Orlando Rage, with JR and Jerry Lawler on commentary, and I'm pretty sure Jerry has never watched a football game in his entire life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioh3dXJnzws For posterity, here is the XFL Million Dollar Game championship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuJvNBfFLGk And here is a link to a youtube channel that has every loving XFL game ever, holy poo poo: http://www.youtube.com/user/XFL101 here's some highlights with maybe like two players that ever played a play in the NFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYhjpYKlWms The XFL was ridiculous and terrible and incredible. This documentary is probably going to be pretty good and you should watch. Discuss the documentary tomorrow, discuss the XFL, post weird anecdotes like how you watched the game that got a loving 1.6 rating on NBC. Tell me where I can buy an XFL jersey today.  RIP He Hate Me Golashes fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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I remember being really excited about this for some reason, and then turning off the first game after about 1 1/2 quarters of terrible football.
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Feb 2, 2017 02:42
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I still own a Tommy Maddox Los Angeles Extreme shirt I picked up when he was a Pittsburgh Steeler.
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Feb 2, 2017 03:52
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Austin wore that Las Vegas Outlaws jersey until it was so worn out you could barely tell what it was anymore
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The SBNation oral history on this is really good: http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/5/7/5683742/xfl-oral-history Apparently the preseason training camps were only 4 1/2 weeks long, which was insane for brand new teams that had never played together before. By the time teams really started clicking with each other, it was too late, nobody was watching.
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Feb 2, 2017 10:59
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I went to an Orlando Rage game. I think it was against He Hate Me's Las Vegas team. I don't remember much about it.
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Feb 2, 2017 11:45
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I remember watching games because I was a dumb, stupid babby who though everything the WWF put out was solid gold.
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Feb 2, 2017 12:37
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The XFL wasn't necessarily the pioneer on what's now a lot of broadcast standards but they definitely shoved a lot of it into the lime light. Sky cam, cameras in huddles, more press in locker rooms, they got a ton of that rolling.
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Feb 2, 2017 14:41
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this is neither a ringsport nor is it all that rowdy anymore, but this looks good as heck anyway and I'll probably watch it even though I have practically no interest in American football
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Venomous posted:this is neither a ringsport nor is it all that rowdy anymore, but this looks good as heck anyway and I'll probably watch it even though I have practically no interest in American football 
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I was at the first NY/NJ Hitmen home game, complete with a Vince McMahon promo on the field before the game and pyro and I bought an XFL football which I think is still at my parents house.
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Feb 2, 2017 16:35
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Oh and also the entire upper deck was tarped off.
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Feb 2, 2017 16:37
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The scramble for the ball instead of the coin flip was the dumbest thing.
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Loved the XFL as a kid, was super popular in school as a 10 year old. Even though it only lasted the one season, most of us had XFL balls and we would play with "XFL Rules" (4 downs, legal suplexes) through until we moved up from primary to high school.
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Ask Me For Warez posted:The scramble for the ball instead of the coin flip was the dumbest thing. It also resulted in an injury the first time they did it. The XFL was just terrible football because it was made up of people who the NFL, AFL and even CFL passed up on and good lord was it bad, bad football.
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The games eventually got better when teams had more practice time to gel and execute a game plan, but even then it was only on the level of, like, a C-tier college bowl game. And by that point it didn't matter because everyone stopped watching.
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Feb 3, 2017 00:35
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Of course Coachman had to show up on this thing
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Feb 3, 2017 03:03
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I'm actually pretty amazed they got Vince and Ebersol to do interviews
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Costas is so loving smug goddamnit
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I totally remember those commercials, the actual league had no hope of ever living up to that.
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The SituAsian posted:Costas is so loving smug goddamnit Seriously. i get where he's coming from but SHUT THE gently caress UP BOB COSTAS
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Peak Vince 
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god loving speed, coach
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This is making me want to punch Bob Costas in the loving face.
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Bob Costas was in loving Baseketball what right does he have to get so high and mighty?
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SamuraiFoochs posted:This is making me want to punch Bob Costas in the loving face.  I like how much this is making him look like a prick though.
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i still can't believe any of this actually happened
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OH gently caress I forgot about the XFL blimp crash
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When did Vince tape this interview, I sure don't remember him having that full of hair the last time he was on Raw.
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"I don't know much about the XFL blimp. Except that it crashed. Which I guess would have been an omen for the league"
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ch3cooh posted:OH gently caress I forgot about the XFL blimp crash me too hahahahahaha
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tommy maddox with the tommy maddoxest throws ever
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Golashes posted:tommy maddox with the tommy maddoxest throws ever Every other shot is guys throwing loving BBs, Maddox throwing ducks
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Golashes posted:tommy maddox with the tommy maddoxest throws ever The Steelers starting Maddox for a couple years said way more about the Steelers' QB situation than it did about Maddox's talent.
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Feb 3, 2017 03:35
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it's actually really good that we're more than halfway through and haven't even gotten to an actual game
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Gonna buy a "Teabagger" jersey brb
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hahahaha I didn't know about the Teabagger jersey name. That would have been amazing.
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Teabagger, loving LMAO
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