The XFL reboot is going to happen. Vince McMahon is scheduled to make the announcement on Thursday.
Speculation about bringing back the XFL surfaced last month when SEC filings from the WWE indicated that McMahon sold 3.34 million shares of the company to fund a separate entity, Alpha Entertainment, LLC. The company was established “to explore investment opportunityes across the sports and entertainment landscapes, including professional football.” In addition, USPTO applications for XFL and Alpha Entertainment provided further clues that the football league was coming back.
.@VinceMcMahon to make a major sports announcement TODAY at 3PM ET. Follow @AlphaEntLLC and watch the LIVE stream on Twitter, Facebook, https://t.co/GKGkPZYciT or YouTube. pic.twitter.com/2tAzIv5Sub
— Alpha Entertainment (@alphaentllc) January 25, 2018
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Dependent on how this is set up, a spring football league would not be a crazy idea at this point. Notably, Tom Brady’s agent, Don Yee, was looking into establishing a league for those players that could not or did not go to college. It would be similar to a developmental league like the NBA. If it is structured like this, and not as a direct competitor to the NFL, there could be a viable market. We shall see.
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