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walkingturtles
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Post by walkingturtles on Jun 29, 2018 15:05:49 GMT -5
I see that Fox deal for Smackdown and the stock sell off going to help McMahon and his football dream.
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Post by marino13 on Jun 29, 2018 15:13:19 GMT -5
Good for them, but I'm sure some WWE talent won't be none to pleased.
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Post by Rude Awakening on Jun 29, 2018 17:04:51 GMT -5
Vince McMahon has 500 million dollars to launch a football league but we get no pyro and no unique Ppv stages?
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Post by k5 on Jun 29, 2018 18:13:34 GMT -5
Vince McMahon has 500 million dollars to launch a football league but we get no pyro and no unique Ppv stages? one is an investment and one is an expense. I miss the cool stages too though.
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Post by Rude Awakening on Jun 29, 2018 20:23:27 GMT -5
Vince McMahon has 500 million dollars to launch a football league but we get no pyro and no unique Ppv stages? one is an investment and one is an expense. I miss the cool stages too though. I know I get that, but 500 million on an investment that has failed before
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Post by powerfred3k on Jun 29, 2018 20:54:23 GMT -5
one is an investment and one is an expense. I miss the cool stages too though. I know I get that, but 500 million on an investment that has failed before And his wife's 2 failed bids to get elected, that was another chunk of change.
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jeffro2000
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Post by jeffro2000 on Jun 29, 2018 21:34:13 GMT -5
I just can't see this working out well. He should abandon ship now.
You got the other new upstart league (AAF) beginning a yr before the XFL. It already has a TV deal, stadium/team deals, and a lot old players/coaches/NFL guys tied to it.
If it is a success then that hurts McMahon's league the following year. People aren't going to watch NFL/College/AAF? and XFL.
If it's a failure, that's no good for Vince either. It will just be more proof that Spring football isn't going to work and people won't bother.
The only way I see either working is if they become associated with the NFL as a developmental league. Good luck to both.
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Post by BØRNS on Jun 30, 2018 0:09:39 GMT -5
What do you mean by "insurance"? Health insurance?
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Post by MichaelTheMartian on Jun 30, 2018 2:21:32 GMT -5
so the guys that bust there ass 300 days a year for you to be able to have the money to launch XFL get no insurance?
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Post by hbkjason on Jun 30, 2018 5:54:10 GMT -5
You would think that this would be the final straw for wrestlers to rise up and have some kind of union and not one led by Mick Foley and Ken Shamrock
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Post by Next Man’s Knowing Rock on Jun 30, 2018 9:02:27 GMT -5
so the guys that bust there ass 300 days a year for you to be able to have the money to launch XFL get no insurance? Is this a question for the OP?
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Post by 235guy on Jul 1, 2018 9:23:53 GMT -5
I think it will worth it if it succeeds and possibly has a better product, overtakes, shuts down NFL
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Post by rKoNomad316 on Jul 1, 2018 11:37:59 GMT -5
So how or why will the XFL work now vs before?
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Post by ChainGang on Jul 1, 2018 13:55:07 GMT -5
It’s gonna take a whooooooollleeee lot for this to overtake the NFL.
The most I can see happening is this being what TNA is to WWE.
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TheEvilDoink1987
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Jul 1, 2018 14:09:02 GMT -5
This isn't anything new even when it comes to Vince's other endeavors.
I remember reading about how back in the day, Vince signed all of his WBF talent to guaranteed contracts with health insurance. Both of those benefits were luxuries not afforded to the majority of the WWF roster.
It's easy to understand the frustration if you're a WWE Superstar. It is 2018 and while guaranteed contracts are now the norm I'm pretty sure that most have to pay for their own health insurance which has to be costly given the job.
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Post by bigshab421 on Jul 1, 2018 19:14:22 GMT -5
If I'm a WWE wrestler, now is the time to start up the insurance talk with the company. It's insane that XFL scrubs will have medical
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Jul 1, 2018 22:57:42 GMT -5
So how or why will the XFL work now vs before? I'm still trying to figure that out. Putting $500 mil into revisiting one of the most notorious disasters in sports history is baffling.
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Post by ClashOfStyles on Jul 2, 2018 0:21:17 GMT -5
What do you mean by "insurance"? Health insurance? Nope, car insurance. That sh*t’s not cheap.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 2, 2018 12:01:27 GMT -5
I really don't understand how the roster hasn't had a labor strike and unionized to this point, especially through those Monday Night Wars years. Vince has always had a weird psychological hold over the talent. I have to think maybe the Kliq would have gotten something like that done in the late 90s had they all stuck around together.
Regardless, I don't think this football league is going to be around very long. The one gimmick people want back in the NFL game is more contact, violence, and Vince can't give that to them because of the increasing issue of CTE. So he's going to be, what, a hybrid of the arena league and the NFL? I think they call that the Canadian Football League. He's trying to take up real-estate that's already over developed. Not to mention, his league is going to be filled with rosters of guys who weren't good enough to make it to the NFL. So essentially, and ironically, Vince will be the TNA of the football world from the perspective of the fans.
League minimum in the NFL is $450K. Average salary in Vince's football league is $75K. This is going to be like watching a really good men's rec league where the guys are paid. They're going to have to have a hell of a marketing gimmick to sell that to a national audience...
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