The XFL Goes Bankrupt
To the guy who kept demanding I make XFL comics for a while there: how’s this for ya?
I feel bad for the players, who deserved a chance to make their football dreams possible. I feel bad for all the employees and staff members who believed in the league. I feel bad for everyone who tried to make this work. They deserved a fair chance to make this work and I don’t think they got one. That said, it is fucking hilarious that 20 years after the initial season failed so miserably Vince McMahon tried to bring his pet project back to life and got RKO’d out of nowhere by a goddamn unprecedented global pandemic. It’s like Vince is the aliens from War of the Worlds. He thinks the time was ripe to conquer, and the smallest organisms you forget even exist took him out.
The XFL fired everyone a short time ago and then filed for bankruptcy this week. Considering that money was probably the one thing the XFL seemed to have an advantage over the AAF in, that’s a pretty bad sign for the survival of the league’s future. The league is currently suspended, which makes me thing the final nail in the coffin won’t be long. The AAF lasted 8 weeks of play before it ate itself. The XFL? Just 5. Yeah, we can blame COVID, but I barely saw anyone talking about it even as the league was still on. I guess only time will tell if Vince wants to pursue more football action once this nightmare finally ends. I think he will. Lord knows he’s more than happy to force his contract employees to keep wrestling even in the age of mandatory social distancing.
Farewell, XFL. I watched a couple games of you. You were passable nonsense.
The Undervirus threw the XFL 16 feet of the top of the cell and through the ratings table.
I liked some of the things he was trying, the double-pass rule was fun, and at least he was (ostensibly) serious about it this time. Roving reporters on the field thogh… nah.
Who knows, the teams from The 6th Day might yet exist for real. Probably by his sixth try at football, ironically enough.
Countering your anecdotal evidence with some of my own, I think over half the people in my office were all up in the XFL’s grill. I only got to watch 1 game whilst traveling on an airplane, and other than not knowing any of the players, it was completely up to the presentation standard of a typical NFL game. For those people who WANTED to watch football year round (I’m not one of them, I need my breaks), I think it definitely was on its way to scratching that itch.
nice touch with the goalpost turnbuckles
spoiler alert coronavirus is just blue man group
is that 3:19 a reference to judgement
if so, a+++ to you good sir
The football was actually good, and they were staying in their own lane and not trying to take on the NFL head-on. They also had a real TV deal, which was why the AFL and USFL found some success where no one else did. The fact that he managed to do everything right and then got clotheslined by some completely unforeseeable, spectacularly bad luck is probably a sign from God the Vince McMahon is not going to start a successful spring league, but if a new Lamar Hunt or David Dixon gets the itch he could use the XFL model to be successful.
I agree, XFL wasn’t bad. It wasn’t the NFL, but it wasn’t trying to be. It could have been a good minor league football destination for undrafted players who didn’t get picked up or for players who flamed out. Alas, we will never know how good it could have been. If I were Vince, I’d pack it in and call it a day on trying to make football work.
Basically, Friday’s comic is gonna be a repeat of last Wednesday’s
#VipeHype
Ka Kaw, motherfucker
1..2..3.. and the XFL is down for the count!
Please do a comic about Gronk in WWE
Part of the XFL’s issue was that it came the year after AAF. A lot of us really enjoyed the AAF, anecdotally of course, and when we saw that the XFL was just bad AAF it kinda made us lose interest.
So no next Tommy Maddox type comeback?
Honestly, I was just about to start paying attention, go to sports bars, etc, when all this bullshit started so…
I’m more concerned with the fact that we now have a trend where every year the XFL plays there has been a big and bad generation-defining event. McMahon’s power is terrifying…
I attended an XFL game on it’s final weekend and found it to be a lot of fun. The television broadcasts were fun as well, and they were solid performers even as ratings fell from opening weekend. Would the XFL had succeeded in perpetuity? Eh… But it would likely have been back for a second season had the ratings continued to run close to 1 million viewers on cable and 1.5 million on over-the-air TV (where they seemed to be settling). Modest ratings, sure, but well ahead of most spring sports properties filling Saturday and Sunday afternoons. A lot of folks were probably discouraged about the prospects of spring football after this, but I don’t think the TV networks are among them.
You should have use a RKO. But alas.
I wanted content, Dave, but not like this.
Not like this.
User name checks out. I’ll allow it
Browns new uniforms are out. The jerseys are more or less just the 2014 ones, with a more rounded numeral font and no “BROWNS” wordmark. The white pants are the traditional ones. Regular brown pants are the ones from the CR set from last year. Socks are striped again – white with stripes for the white jerseys and brown with stripes for the brown jerseys. Color rush set is plain brown. They hinted at an orange alternate yet to be revealed.
Overall kind of anticlimactic, but a hell of a lot better than the last set. I wish they’d kept the color rush uniforms from the last set while dropping everything else, and that the brown pants had an orange-white-orange stripe instead of the double orange stripe.
Basically, Friday’s comic is gonna be a repeat of last Wednesday’s.
it will be Dave sitting on his couch browsing the internets and then his eyebrows raise and his jaw drops and he’s all YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE? and then the comic is just wednesday’s comic
This would be awesome. I mean, he’s had to use that one gag so many times already in ONE OFFSEASON! That’s ridiculous. Nike had more creativity making unis for Oregon on a weekly basis that what they’re doing for NFL right now.
Hearing the refs and reviews was really, really interesting. I wouldn’t mind that making it to the NFL, if only to hear a comparison to more professional referees.
feels bad