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XFL: Not Bad Enough  The XFL failed because it couldn't deliver enough of the smut and sleaze that wrestling honcho Vince McMahon promised. • Latest From the AP XFL Smacked Down The XFL, unable to find a new broadcasting partner after NBC declined to continue airing its games, folded Thursday after one season. • What's Your Opinion? In the News
The XFL: 'It's Not Very Good Football': Started With a Bang, Ending With . . . (Post, April 18, 2001)
Ratings Fall to Lowest of Season (Post, March 19, 2001) The Football League That Bombed: WWF Founder, NBC Exec Scramble for Solutions To End Ratings Disaster (Post, March 7, 2001) League Considers Signing Ex-High School Players (Post, March 5, 2001) Tillman Takes Issue With Ventura's Hype (Post, Feb. 28, 2001) New League Taking a TV Ratings Beating (Post, Feb. 19, 2001) XFL Week 2 Rating Drops 50 Percent (Post, Feb. 12, 2001) A Spectacle for Generation XFL: It May Not Be for Everybody, but New League Certainly Is, Well, Different (Post, Feb. 5, 2001) Opening Night Proves to Be Quite a Show (Post, Feb. 4, 2001) XFL's Strategy: First and Twenty-Something (Post, Feb. 3, 2001) XFL Is Set to Deliver Football a Shot in the Mouth (Post, Feb. 2, 2001)
The XFL has apparently gone over the heads of a portion of the sports-viewing public, writes Sally Jenkins. The new league, thick in satire, does not pretend to be the National Football League. So sit back, take a load off, and enjoy the slapstick.
The XFL is a buffet of gratuitous violence, moronic shenanigans and just plain lousy football, writes Leonard Shapiro, and we should blame NBC, which sold its soul to the new league. • What Do You Think? © 2002-2005 The Washington Post Company |
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