XFL

I am Guss Crab’s I wake up in the morning and I smell my mom’s coffee brewing. Just me and my mom live together because my dad died when I was in 7th grade four years ago. I go to school that morning and I see football tryouts or August 25. When I get home from school and I my mom is back home from work already. She asked me what I want for dinner? I said steak and mash potatoes. The next day at school I see coach Smith in the hallway. he asked “you signed up?” I said “yep.” The next morning I go to wake up my mom and she doesn’t respond. I got to touch her to wake her up and she doesn’t move. I yell “mom” then I yell “Sandy” she doesn’t respond. I call the police and then they come and I never went to school that day. Also the news came and I was getting interviewed and I see my best friend James standing there. He runs up to me and he gives me a big hug and I just start crying really bad and he did too. The next week I stayed at his house where I get food, water, a house, and people that care for me. August 25, came around and I went to tryouts and I see the best football player in the town there. He told me “sorry about your loss man I hope that you do good this year.” I was thinking to myself that was the first time that he ever talked to me. I was so scared because he was on the team and I wouldn’t become a starter on the football team. Next I saw coach Smith and he said that he was really happy that I and trying out. I made the J.V. team the first game I play it…

decided to form a new competitor. On February 3rd, 2000 a new football league was announced, The XFL. It’s first (and last) season was scheduled to kick off in 2001, with ten teams set to compete and a chance at a championship trophy. McMahon created a league that combined the entertainment of the gruesome WWF and the classic NFL. The league took on a…

disrespected a "time honored [American] tradition," as well as the military and law enforcement. In response, a failed independent football league, the Extreme Football League, or XFL, announced that it will make another attempt at starting a league by creating one that eliminates politics and other elements that draw attention away from strictly athletic entertainment. In 2001, the XFL, led by CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., Vince McMahon, failed to live up to the hype it promised…

a regular basis, but effects a fans opinion of a team, as well as a team’s acquired revenue. For example, Tom Brady, quarterback of the New England Patriots, implication of deflating game footballs not only cost the Patriots one million dollars but also took away two of their future draft picks (Pennington). This mishap not only spread throughout cyber space at rapid speed, but also created fan unrest. Effecting the Patriots detrimentally—more than the one million dollar fine. These…