Week No. WhoCares

[lmanchur.]

So what are we at now?... Week number WHAT? Does anyone really care?

Ha ha! -- did anyone see the Late Show with Connan O'Brian (is that his name?)!?... he he... he had the "XFL Survivor" Show.... "week one: 10 million views... week two: 1000 thousand viewers... week three: 60,000 viewers... week four: 164 viewers... week five: SIX Viewers... Who will be the last XFL fan?... The winner receives the entire league!"

It was quite funny... had to be there.

Oh -- was there a point to this thread?... oh yes... I wanted to ask what the viewership numbers were this week for the XTREMELY (Boring) Football League.

[Marc]

I don't worship the XFL or anything, but that's a little harsh. I was watching Jim Rome's talk show and he had some XFL reporters and sports columnists on there and they were debating this issue.

1. The XFL will probably be moved to another timeslot. It is aimed at young people and most young people are out and about on Saturday nights. :)

2. The media has beat a hole in the league, unfortunately. They never gave it a chance... mainly because of the WWF's involvement with it. Point being, they had prejudice to it before it already started. I've heard rumors the WWF might abandon the league, which actually might be a good thing.

3. The play actually isn't all that bad anymore.

[lmanchur.]

Originally posted by M. James
2. The media has beat a hole in the league, unfortunately. They never gave it a chance... mainly because of the WWF's involvement with it. Point being, they had prejudice to it before it already started. I've heard rumors the WWF might abandon the league, which actually might be a good thing.

...Maybe they should have tried to appeal to FOOTBALL fans from the start, instead of having "The Rock" do the opening sequence for the league, where every second word was either "The Rock" or "the XFL" -- people were there to see football, not some guy who has Rocks in his head! :)

...Maybe they should have tried to appeal to FOOTBALL fans from teh start, instead of McMahon use four-letter words in the opening news conference way back at this time last year when he announced the WWF was going to partnership in a new football league

Originally posted by M. James
3. The play actually isn't all that bad anymore.

I don't understand that -- how can the play change all of a sudden in just three months? Okay, I take that back -- maybe there's more chemistry between the players now that they've been together for a few months, but still, the talent level of the players don't change overnight. Sorry -- I wouldn't really know since I haven't watched the XFL recently... except for a few minutes during the commercial breaks last weekend when I was watching the PGA Tour -- yep, real good plays... one play the quarterback lost control of the ball as he was throwing it... lost 15 yards or so... the next play, he was saced... PLEASE, JUNE!!!... Come here quickly!!! -- I need to watch some real football in the CFL!!!... and I thought the talent in the CFL was bad!... I was wrong, wrong, wrong.

[Titandude]

Amen to what SC Lee said. The XFL and diehards can blame the media all they want, and I agree the media at this point will never give the XFL a fair shot, but the blame still rides on their own stupid selves.

The biggest ratings were for Week 1, where FOOTBALL fans tuned in to watch because they wanted another football league to watch. And the first week turned of half of them because if anyone watched that first game on NBC (and the first UPN game), you would have seen a lot of junk that they have since done away with. The player introductions, the stupid skits with the players and cheerleaders, etc, etc. Week 2 to Week 3 lost half of the half. REAL FOOTBALL fans are turned off by the crap McMahon set up this league to be. I have continued to watch, but I wills say that I was severely disappointed when I watched Week 1 and I STILL have a bad taste in my mouth about it.

And McMahon continues to insult football fans with that idiotic skit he had at halftime Saturday night. Notice that those ratings just shot up, eh Vince. And now with a very hot time of the year for sports coming up, I see the rating only going down.

So don't blame the media, blame Vince McMahon.