User:Jeffreypascal/XFL (2020)
Current season, competition or edition: 2020 XFL season | |
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| Sport | American football |
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| Founded | 2018 |
| First season | 2020 |
| Owner(s) | Alpha Entertainment LLC (Vince McMahon) |
| President | Jeffrey Pollack |
| Commissioner | Oliver Luck |
| No. of teams | 8 |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters | Stamford, Connecticut |
| TV partner(s) | ABC/ESPN Fox Sports |
| Official website | www |
The XFL is a professional American football league owned by Vince McMa hon's Alpha Entertainment, and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. It is the successor to the original XFL, which was controlled by McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and NBC, and ran for a single season in 2001. The league follows a similar structure as the original XFL did in 2001, with eight teams, centrally owned and operated by the league (as opposed to the franchise model, with each team having different ownership groups) and spread across the United States in markets currently or recently represented by a National Football League (NFL) franchise, competing in a ten-game season and a two-week postseason in the winter and spring months, after the Super Bowl. When the regular season begins the games will be scheduled on Saturday and Sunday. And have one prime time game on Thursday night during the final week of the regular season.
In announcing the reformed XFL, McMahon stated that while it would share its name and trademark with the previous incarnation, it would not rely on professional wrestling-inspired features and entertainment elements as its predecessor did. Back in 2001 the XFL aired during the wrestling “attitude Era,” and was more maintaining their lust for violence and sex appeal making them have harder hits, fewer rules, and modest cheerleaders.