N/S The XFL Starts A Month From Now

The only thing that can fail the XFL is Vince. He’s already said he doesn’t want it to be a developmental farm league, but views it as an alternative to the NFL. To me, this just sounds like suicide.

I thought his original plan was to also air in the summer or fall rather spring. Maybe he’s had a change of heart? Maybe I was misinformed?

I’m all for a developmental league, but the wonky rules and subpar branding is going to leave me feeling meh.

Doing it right after the NFL season is a mistake, IMO. These days I'm burnt out on football by the time the bowls and NFL playoffs are over, and the last thing I want to watch is a subpar league straight after the Super Bowl. Most of the people I know are the same way. It's nice, especially as we get older, to have that time on the weekends back to take care of life stuff.

They'd be better off running it in the summer after everyone is starting to get hyped and frenzied for football again. May, June, July timeframes, so that you catch the "training camp hype" part of the offseason when people are starving for football so badly that they get excited over 4 second video clips of training camps. I guess you'd have some weather issues that time of year particularly in the south. But putting it right after the NFL ends is dooming it to failure. Most people are not looking for 8 straight months of football.