22 Facts About XFL

1. The XFL said it will pay on the average $75,000 per player.

2. The new XFL will not utilize the same sports entertainment gimmicks as the original, instead focusing on adjusting rules to increase the speed of play.

3. The XFL was conceived as an outdoor football league that would begin play immediately after the National Football League season ended to take advantage of lingering public desire to watch football after the NFL and college football seasons had concluded.

4. The XFL operated as a single entity with all teams owned by the league, in contrast to most major professional leagues, which use a franchise model with individual owners.

5. The XFL was a gamble, and even though the league didn't ultimately succeed, we think audiences will really enjoy this tale of risk and ambition.

6. The XFL promised to treat these women as real flesh-and-blood human beings.

7. Vince McMahon repeatedly mentioned how the XFL would let the cheerleaders' personalities shine.

8. The XFL had promised unprecedented access, and this is what that looked like.

9. The XFL was the game of football drenched in a healthy heaping of pro-wrestling's attitude and, naturally, it didn't make it beyond its inaugural 2001 season.

10. The XFL was intended to be a major professional sports league complement to the offseason of the NFL, but it failed to find an audience and folded after its first and only season.

11. The XFL was suppose to be a major professional sports league complement to the offseason of the NFL, but couldn't find an audience and folded after its first season.

12. The XFL brought a football franchise to Los Angeles—a market which has lacked an NFL team for years—and demonstrated that a baseball-specific stadium such as San Francisco's Pac Bell Park made a suitable venue for football as well.

13. The XFL was intended to be a major professional sports league complement to the offseason of the NFL, but failed to find an audience and folded after its first season.

14. The XFL set a record for the lowest-watched broadcast in primetime history.

15. The XFL will not consider viewership to be a metric of its success; McMahon argued that "to me the landscape has changed in so many different ways.

16. The XFL was supposed to be a major professional sports league complement to the off-season of the NFL, but could not find an audience and folded after its first season.

17. Vince McMahon announced that the XFL would be coming back in 2020 and he made a lot of different claims like how this will change the game of football.

18. The XFL had a fairly extensive local radio presence, often using nationally recognized disc jockeys.

19. The XFL was originally conceived to build on the success of the NFL and professional wrestling.

20. The XFL operated as a single entity, with all teams centrally owned by the league.

21. The XFL was conceived as an outdoor football league that would take place during the NFL off-season, and was promoted as having fewer rules and encouraging rougher play than other major leagues.

22. The XFL tried to beat down the NFL with violent rules, WWE cameos and, of course, tough nicknames on the back of their jerseys.