Post by In the Cards on Jan 23, 2020 9:57:55 GMT -7
The week after the Super Bowl, Feb. 8th, the rejuvenated XFL will be starting their re-inaugural season with 8 teams located in LA, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, New York, and DC. The league is divided into two 'conferences', the East and the West, with inter-conference teams playing each other once and intra-conference teams playing twice for a total of a 10 week regular season. Similar to the college football playoffs, only four teams will make the playoffs, but the first 2 seeded teams of each conference will enter.
I'm personally going to root for the St. Louis Battlehawks for two reasons: they don't have an NFL team in their city, and the Cardinals used to play there. I don't know much about their players but I'm excited to follow the team until Arizona gets an organization (maybe Fitz will be retired by then and he'll want to own the team outright??!).
The XFL consulted former high ranking former NFL officials, safety committees, doctors, marketing teams, fans, and other experts in pursuit of making the league more exciting, practical, and safer. They used the NFL rule book as a boilerplate, and then made changes.
Extra points can only be ran as a normal play (no kicking) form the 2 yard line for 1 point, 5 yard line for 2 points, or 10 yard line for 3 points.
Kickoff and punt teams can only start running at each other only after the returner has caught the ball, and the opposite teams will face each other 5 yards apart. Touchbacks result with the ball on the 35 yard line. If a kick lands out of bounds, the ball is placed on the 45. There's more to this rule, but all this is to incentivize less fair catches and more safer returns.
Overtime is much different than the NFL with a game of "1 point conversions" out of 5 and the best team after 5 attempts to score 1 point at a time wins, or if a team is mathematically eliminated. If it's still tied, then it's sudden death with the same format.
There are more rules, so check them out here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2020)#Rule_changes
I'll be talking about the XFL throughout the year here to give my input.
I'm personally going to root for the St. Louis Battlehawks for two reasons: they don't have an NFL team in their city, and the Cardinals used to play there. I don't know much about their players but I'm excited to follow the team until Arizona gets an organization (maybe Fitz will be retired by then and he'll want to own the team outright??!).
The XFL consulted former high ranking former NFL officials, safety committees, doctors, marketing teams, fans, and other experts in pursuit of making the league more exciting, practical, and safer. They used the NFL rule book as a boilerplate, and then made changes.
Extra points can only be ran as a normal play (no kicking) form the 2 yard line for 1 point, 5 yard line for 2 points, or 10 yard line for 3 points.
Kickoff and punt teams can only start running at each other only after the returner has caught the ball, and the opposite teams will face each other 5 yards apart. Touchbacks result with the ball on the 35 yard line. If a kick lands out of bounds, the ball is placed on the 45. There's more to this rule, but all this is to incentivize less fair catches and more safer returns.
Overtime is much different than the NFL with a game of "1 point conversions" out of 5 and the best team after 5 attempts to score 1 point at a time wins, or if a team is mathematically eliminated. If it's still tied, then it's sudden death with the same format.
There are more rules, so check them out here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2020)#Rule_changes
I'll be talking about the XFL throughout the year here to give my input.