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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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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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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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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The last of July and first of August were a bit slow for the XFL news we all crave. But the last couple weeks have thrown out a few fastballs. First, we got word the first of the Draft Invites are going out. Then we had our first official player signing. And the biggest news …
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There has been a lot of news this past month since we last talked after the Dallas Summer Showcase. Although, most all the news involves that one category, the Summer Showcases. From the first in Dallas to the eighth and final showcase being held this past Saturday for XFL St Louis. There were almost 900 …
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What Oliver Luck described to us at the Dallas Chalk Talk as “The first official XFL football action of the new league” was a success at the first Summer Showcase for, in this instance the Dallas team. I was lucky enough to be on-hand covering the event for us at https://xflplus.com and at the invitation …
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The big news this past month was the hiring of the final two Head Coach / General Manager positions in Los Angeles and Houston, as well as finally getting the announcement of the TV Deal. Even if the head coach/GM hiring has taken over three months to get the final list of eight leaders, it …
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