Vince McMahon (!!!!) is rebooting the XFL – the old glorified football league that did great week 1 and then crashed services in week 2, ultimately leading to its demise.\u00a0 What do you remember most from the XFL?\u00a0 He Hate Me.\u00a0 No other answer.\u00a0 Not a good answer – but no other answer.\u00a0 The XFL only lasted one season and was deemed an ultimate failure.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To decide the kickoff, two players would run a sprint for the ball and whoever got the ball would win.\u00a0 Injuries piled up over this nonsense.\u00a0 There was also the no fair catch rule which saw people getting lit up.\u00a0 17 years later, with concussions on the forefront of football, Vince is deciding to bring back the XFL as a slightly different product and vows to make it awesome.\u00a0 MEANWHILE, the Alliance of American Football will be popping up one year earlier than the XFL, trying to take out it’s competition before it begins.\u00a0 The AAF will start in February of 2019, the Saturday after the Super Bowl and has an 8 team slate with 50 man rosters.\u00a0 The games are supposed to have less (or no) TV timeouts and finish in 2.5 hours.\u00a0 That’s a lot of football talk right in the home stretch of the NFL leading to the playoffs.\u00a0 But that’s not why I’m here.\u00a0 I’m here for a much more fun reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The XFL announced the 8 cities that will be hosting teams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dallas
Houston
Los Angeles
New York
Seattle
St. Louis
Tampa Bay
Washington DC<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only issue is – they didn’t give the cities any team names!\u00a0 So, I wasn’t about to let Adam be the only one naming teams<\/a>.\u00a0 He only had one city – Seattle to name.\u00a0 I’m here to name eight (8!!!!)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dallas: Look, I don’t know why Texas needs 2 teams, but here we are.\u00a0 What would Vince want the Dallas team to be named?\u00a0 Although Stone Cold is from Austin, TX (convenient, right?) there has to be a tie to him, right?\u00a0 Houston is technically closer, but that one is a given (see below) so for Dallas we are going with the Dallas Slobberknockers.\u00a0 Or Dallas Rattlesnakes?\u00a0 Yeah, it’s that one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Houston:\u00a0 Look, Vince is no dummy.\u00a0 For Houston, why not capitalize on some existing memorabilia, all while taking at shot at the NFL?\u00a0 The Houston Oilers are back, folks!\u00a0 Complete with their signature jerseys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n