What Will's Watching

XFL, Week 3: The New York Guardians suck. We caught some of the St. Louis Battle Hawks game. Great name. Nice colors. The fans of St. Louis really turned out. The play is decent, the game is watchable. Problem is we just don't care about any of these teams or players. For the 3rd Saturday afternoon in a row the XFL put us to sleep. It's not entirely the league's fault. We're middle-aged and the afternoons are deadly. We'd done a bunch of man-things around the house. It was a nice powernap, maybe 35 minutes, you know the kind where one is still semi-aware of what's going on? 

What Will Watched

The XFL: We caught a quarter of a Saturday game and a half of a Sunday game. We watched half a season of the XFL in 2000. This aint that. We liked the rules changes, especially the kickoff. Curiously we didn't like the three extra-point conversion options and we don't know why. The play was decent. The color men were OK, a little too talkative but not stupidly so. There's no Booger McFarland here. The team names and uniforms are...meh. We like the New York Guardians and their gargoyle mascot, though. Well thought out and well done. So far, not too bad. 2/4.

8-22-19 in New Jersey

Or New York, anyway. 

Hey, they're playing at the Meadowlands.

Breaking, XFL announces team names:

“The XFL is about football and fun, and our team identities are intended to signify just that,” said XFL President and COO, Jeffrey Pollack. “Now it’s up to our fans and players to help write the story. What happens on the field and in the community, in the years ahead, will determine the true spirit of each team.”

We watched half a season in 2000 before we figured out the XFL sucked.

And the New York team:

New York Guardians: Sentries carved of stone. Watchdogs over the metropolis. A prehistoric predator. A beast evolves, turned loose in a new kind of jungle. All teeth and talons, eyes unblinking. They know fear because they feed off it. They are your first line of defense, and there is no need for a second. The New York Guardians. On duty.

Very interesting concept, no? Invokes the canyons of Manhattan, and the city's gothic architectural past. Well played XFL. Well played indeed.  Here's the video presentation: