Maddox is currently the only player to win both an XFL Championship and a Super Bowl ( Super Bowl XL ).

This rule is used in the Arena Football League and was used in the XFL.

The average player's salary in the Arena Football League was US $ 1, 800 per game in 2008 ; this is about a third of the per-game salary of players in outdoor leagues such as United Football League, Canadian Football League and the XFL ( adjusted for inflation ).

Michael Croel ( born June 6, 1969 ) is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League and the XFL.

This is a screen capture of the actual commercial aired on NBC in 2000 captured by the now defunct XFL. com.

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Michael Lamont Archie ( born October 14, 1972, Sharon, Pennsylvania, United States ) is a former professional American football player who played running back in the NFL and XFL.

Barkann is also a former XFL commentator.

Murphy is the only player ever to play in the regular seasons of the CFL, NFL, XFL and NFL Europe, as well as the only player to suit up for the Super Bowl, Grey Cup and World Bowl championship games.

A further problem was that the XFL itself was the brainchild of Vince McMahon, a man who was ridiculed by mainstream sports journalists due to the stigma attached to professional wrestling as being " fake "; many journalists even jokingly speculated whether any of the league's games were rigged, although nothing of this sort was ever proven.

Memphis has been represented by several now-defunct professional sports franchises, including the Memphis Pharaohs of Arena Football, the Memphis Maniax of the XFL, the Memphis Xplorers of the AF2, the Memphis Showboats of the USFL, the Memphis Southmen of the WFL, the Memphis Houn ' Dawgs of the ABA, the Memphis Sounds of the original ABA in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Memphis Mad Dogs of the CFL.

The team was a member of the XFL begun by Vince McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.

During the height of the now-defunct XFL, one of the continuing ad series involved a fictitious professional American football team owned by Jack.

This team was part of the failed XFL begun by Vince McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.

This team was part of the failed XFL begun by Vince McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.

The team was part of the XFL begun by Vince McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.

The Orlando Rage was an American football team based in Orlando, Florida as part of the failed XFL begun by Vince McMahon of the World Wrestling Federation and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.

This team was part of the failed XFL begun by Vince McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.

This team was part of the failed XFL begun by Vince McMahon of the World Wrestling Federation and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.

The XFL, a short-lived American football league, attempted to avoid coin tosses by implementing a face-off style " opening scramble ," in which one player from each team tried to recover a loose football ; the team whose player recovered the ball got first choice.

He played college football for the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers, and began his professional career in the short-lived XFL, where he played running back for the Las Vegas Outlaws and was known by the nickname " He Hate Me ".

In 2000, Kaesviharn was drafted by the San Francisco Demons for the inaugural season of the XFL.

Prior to that, after the original series ended and while working with NBC Sports, Adamle indirectly worked with the WWE doing commentary for the XFL.

UPN aired only one regular network sports event program: the much-hyped XFL in 2001, as part of a package from co-creator Vince McMahon which also included what was then WWF SmackDown!

McMahon did not agree to the change and the XFL folded just after that.

When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").

However, after being unable to reach a deal with UPN, McMahon shut down the XFL.

Lawler claims that he never wanted to announce for the XFL, but that he agreed to it after McMahon and Kevin Dunn asked him.

The XFL was a professional American football league that played for one season in 2001.

The XFL was intended to be a major professional sports league complement to the offseason of the National Football League, but it failed to find an audience and ceased operation after its first and only season.

Created as a joint venture between NBC and the World Wrestling Federation under the company name " XFL, LLC ", the XFL was created as a " single-entity league ", meaning that the teams were not individually owned and operated franchises ( as in the NFL ), but that the league was operated as a single business unit.

The XFL had impressive television coverage for an upstart league, with three games televised each week on NBC, UPN, and TNN.

Although the XFL began with better-than-expected TV ratings ( the opening-week games actually delivered ratings double those of what NBC had promised advertisers and the Saturday broadcast had more viewers than the NFL Pro Bowl ) and fair publicity, the audience declined sharply after the first week of the season, going from a 9. 5 rating to a 4. 6 in just one week, and the media attacked the league for what was perceived as a poor quality of play.

In 2000 the WWF, in collaboration with television network NBC, announced the creation of the XFL, a new professional football league that debuted in 2001.

The trivia track on the 2010 edition contains some errors, such as a statement that some of the dancers featured in the film were recruited from the XFL football league cheerleaders, an impossibility as the XFL wasn't formed until 2000.

The XFL, a competing pro league which played its sole season in 2001, used a fumble recovery instead of a coin toss to decide which team would get to choose whether to kick off or receive at the opening of the game and before overtime.

They finished the only year of XFL play – 2001 – in last place with the worst record in the league, at 2-8.

NBC dropped the XFL concept after the first ( 2001 ) season due to dismal ratings, and the league was disbanded shortly thereafter.

NBC dropped the XFL concept after the first season in 2001 due to dismal ratings, and the dissolution of the league was announced shortly afterwards.

NBC officials wanted to move the XFL games to afternoons after the first season ( 2001 ) due to dismal ratings, and when, somewhat to McMahon's surprise and disappointment the United Paramount Network ( UPN ) wanted to follow suit, the league was then folded and the team disbanded.

NBC dropped the XFL concept after the first season ( 2001 ) due to dismal ratings, and the league folded soon afterward.

NBC dropped the XFL concept after the first season ( 2001 ) due to dismal ratings, and the league folded soon afterwards.

NBC dropped the XFL concept after the first season 2001 due to dismal ratings, and the league folded shortly afterwards.

With the creation of the XFL in 2001, Lawler was given the job as an announcer for the new football league.