[St. Loser Fan]

The older USFL, XFL, maybe even WLAF had a pipe-dream fantasy of forcing a merger with the NFL and getting its owners a big payday. That was/is clearly not going to happen.

The thing is there is precedence:
AFL/NFL merger from 1966 to 1970
ABA/NBA merger in 1976
WHA/NHL merger in 1979
But that's an entirely different era.

[rams1974]

The thing is there is precedence:
AFL/NFL merger from 1966 to 1970
ABA/NBA merger in 1976
WHA/NHL merger in 1979
But that's an entirely different era.

Well yeah, that is what was really so amusing about it. The thinking that it must happen again because it happened in the past - and a whole lot of money being thrown at that one-slide pitch!

[St. Loser Fan]

Well yeah, that is what was really so amusing about it. The thinking that it must happen again because it happened in the past - and a whole lot of money being thrown at that one-slide pitch!

I wouldn't put it past Dwayne Johnson to think the XFL is some sort of gateway to NFL ownership. Just like he thought he could take a not well fleshed out 4th tier DC character (Black Adam) and have him be a tentpole to build a franchise around.

Like I said a spring football franchise that's almost entirely owned and operated by the NFL as a pipeline to the parent league could work.
NFL2?
NFLJr?
NFL Light?
NFL Developmental?

[rams74]

There might have been 8000 people at the Liberty Bowl.

So, more people than the Tennessee Oilers drew the one year they played there.

[St. Loser Fan]

So, more people than the Tennessee Oilers drew the one year they played there.

Nashville hates Memphis and Memphis hates Nashville.

Imagine if when the Rams left St. Louis they were made to play in San Diego, Sacramento or the Bay before they came to LA. That was about the same silly way they moved the Oilers.

[rams74]

Nashville hates Memphis and Memphis hates Nashville.

Imagine if when the Rams left St. Louis they were made to play in San Diego, Sacramento or the Bay before they came to LA. That was about the same silly way they moved the Oilers.

Oh yes, I know. I lived in Memphis in the late '90s, I was there. Memphians wanted nothing to do with Nashville's team. They deliberately stayed away from the Liberty Bowl. They wanted their own team.

[St. Loser Fan]

Oh yes, I know. I lived in Memphis in the late '90s, I was there. Memphians wanted nothing to do with Nashville's team. They deliberately stayed away from the Liberty Bowl. They wanted their own team.

Slightly surprised they haven't done a rebrand to Nashville Titans.

[rams1974]

I wouldn't put it past Dwayne Johnson to think the XFL is some sort of gateway to NFL ownership. Just like he thought he could take a not well fleshed out 4th tier DC character (Black Adam) and have him be a tentpole to build a franchise around.

Like I said a spring football franchise that's almost entirely owned and operated by the NFL as a pipeline to the parent league could work.
NFL2?
NFLJr?
NFL Light?
NFL Developmental?

That was kinda NFL Europe, though it was probably a bridge too far to try to expand interest of American football in Europe at the same time establish a Spring league here. And you are probably right about Johnson.

[Elvis]

Say what now?

[St. Loser Fan]

Say what now?

Uhh, I guess....?

https://www.xfl.com/rules

DOUBLE FORWARD PASS

If a team completes a forward pass behind the line of scrimmage, that team may throw a second forward pass, as long as the ball has not crossed the line of scrimmage
Once the ball has passed the line of scrimmage, no forward passes are permitted
The first pass may fall incomplete rather than becoming a fumbled lateral.