The NFL’s would-be rival kicks off this weekend 19 years after its first incarnation imploded. It has money behind it, but will it pull in fans?
A reboot of one of America’s most notorious and short-lived competitions kicks off this weekend as the billionaire wrestling mogul, Vince McMahon, bets once more that America can fall for a professional football league not named the NFL.
The eight-team XFL debuts on Saturday when the DC Defenders host the Seattle Dragons. The name is the same and the logo is similar but this iteration of the XFL promises to be very different from McMahon’s previous attempt.
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