FIRST OFF, there should be two different IMDb pages for the original XFL by Vince McMahon, a desperate and insanely stupid ploy to mix his professional wrestling WWF with football, and the newer incarnation which was bought by The Rock, who, ironically, was the first human seen when the XFL premiered, since he was one of McMahon's employees...
So the original XFL was the real deal, with all the mistakes and goofiness that's since become legend, like having clips of the players "backstage" with cheerleaders... The problem with trying to get into the sex lives (or flirtatious lives) of the players and cheerleaders was, neither could act... It was awkward...
Jesse Ventura could possibly be the worst thing about the XFL... His barking color commentary and attempt to have a feud with beguiled New York coach Rusty Tilman was just plain stupid... I know liberals adore Jesse but he was doing this while being the supposed blue collar governor, and proves how lame he was/is... the same man who sued a widow TWICE... Dumb dumb...
There IS a guilty pleasure, however, in all the cheesy inserts... only the games are boring, lackluster... The real reason this failed is that you're watching professional football with players who were far from professional athletes, especially when turned into teams... The NFL has pro players playing pro ball... These were a collection of rejects and players not good enough... It was like watching a cop show with security guards as the main characters trying to be real cops...
Ventura and the commentators would mention how the players were struggling financially, and how they had to quit their low/rent jobs to play, which was supposed to hype the underdog level but really just made the players seem like what they were, unprofessional athletes who should be working at the post office instead of being watched by the audience, so most of the XFL was just plain boring...
Yes, many of the technical devices are used in the NFL today.. .and that's a shame because watching football now is like playing a video game... ironically the look of the XFL was based on the Madden video games... Only those you can at least turn off.
