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Vince McMahon: XFL to return in 2020 without gimmicks

 

WWE founder and chairman Vince McMahon announced Thursday he is giving a professional football league another go.

 

It will be called the XFL, the same name of the league McMahon and NBC tried for one season in 2001, but it won't rely on flashy cheerleaders and antics as its predecessor did, he said.

One mark of the new league, McMahon said, will be faster games. The ideal running time, he said, would be two hours.

As for the timing of the announcement, two years before the league's debut, many might point to McMahon's relationship with President Donald Trump, who this fall criticized the NFL for allowing its players to kneel and sit during the national anthem. McMahon said players in his league will not be given the forum to take a personal stance while on the playing field. McMahon's wife, Linda, heads the Small Business Administration in Trump's Cabinet.

"People don't want social and political issues coming into play when they are trying to be entertained," McMahon said. "We want someone who wants to take a knee to do their version of that on their personal time."

McMahon said being the only owner of all of the teams will allow him to do whatever he wants. "I can say, 'Here are the rules, and as long as you are playing football in the stadium for us, you follow these rules.'" McMahon also said he would preclude any player with a criminal record, which would disqualify former Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel.

"We are evaluating a player based on many things, including the quality of human being they are," McMahon said. If you have any sort of criminal record or commit a crime you aren't playing in this league."

Source: http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/22213241/vince-mcmahon-gimmick-free-xfl-return-2020

NO GIMMICKS? BOOOOOO

Link to website: https://www.xfl.com/ (WARNING: Video on autoplay if you go there)

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This is gonna flop big time cause no one is gonna wanna watch terrible football.

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