The first ever Texas Throwdown took place during week four in Arlington, Texas. The second home game for the Renegades saw attendance increase by over one thousand more from last week. You’ve seen the game reports so this is just Plus a little extra sights. Renegade Eyes. Jeff Badet displays his warm up staredown. Stoops …
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TWTW 4:20 What a great week of games. Every one had a good story in it. What some consider the best team versus the worst was a tight, fun game to watch. The other 2 – 0 versus 0 – 2 game had the “worse” team get the biggest win by points of any …
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TWTW 3:20 Another week of XFL football down. After the last year of buildup, the weeks will fall like dominoes now and be gone before we know it. We got our first 3-point conversion attempts, two of them going fifty-fifty. Our first 300-yard passer and oh so close to our first 100-yard rusher, both …
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TWTW 2:20 Well what a week that was! And welcome to our tenth edition of The Week That Was but the first ever after a gameday. I had been wondering when exactly to release XFL Plus’s own flagship column. Last year in the offseason it didn’t really matter what day of the week, but …
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Dallas Renegades Home Opener vs the St Louis Battlehawks The picture prefect days for prior XFL Renegades football events this year in North Texas finally gave way to cloudy skies with very light sprinkling here and again at first. But usually, one good thing about Spring Football in Texas (technically late winter but hey) …
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TWTW 1:20 Its been just over two years since we got the announcement from Vince McMahon that the XFL would be reborn in 2020. Almost a year after that it became real with the reveal of the eight cities that would have teams. 2019 would thus become a year of anticipation for fans that …
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The Dallas Renegades opened the door at Globe Life Park this past weekend for a peek at what the renovations are doing to convert the playing surface from baseball to football. The multi-million dollar conversion is nearly complete as the construction team was busy gluing down the final edges of the new artificial turf replacing …
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Well, what a whirlwind this past year has been. From the XFL cities announcement which was actually in December of 2018 to Training Camp in January 2020. It has been one heck of a ride watching the league, teams, personnel, players and even fan sites and pages like this one grow and grow. So, in …
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XFL Rules Cheat Sheet for Game Day Coinflip or Not: No, home team will have choice to defer to second half. Visitors have choice in OT. Kickoffs: The kicker will be lined up on their 25-yard line. The rest of the kicking team will be spread out across the return teams 35-yard line. …
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It has been a while since our last visit on The Week That Was. We have been going about a month between articles in this first offseason, but I did take two this time for a late summer break here in Texas. We had a lot of items to cover including: the first ever XFL …
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