Sports Team History XFL League Logo 2020 Even though it did not complete its first season, the 2020 version of the XFL looks like it will outlive both the original version of the league and the short-lived Alliance of American Football from a year ago. The XFL completed a season in 2001, but it was canceled by part-owner NBC and did not return for …
2019 2020 Vipers Team Formation The Central Florida corridor has been a popular location for alternative professional football since the 1960s. Two teams, in particular, had success in Tampa Bay: the Tampa Bay Storm was one of the Arena Football League’s most successful and longest-lived franchises, surviving in the city from 1991 until it suspended operations after the 2017 season. …
2019 2020 Battlehawks Team Formation The BattleHawks are the only XFL team not to share its market with a current National Football League franchise; St. Louis had hosted NFL football in 1923 with the All-Stars, 1934 with the Gunners, 1960 to 1987 with the Football Cardinals, and again from 1995 to 2015 with the Rams, which relocated to Los Angeles …
2019 2020 Dragons Team Formation Seven out of eight of the teams that were awarded an inaugural team from Vince McMahon are located in an NFL city. The Dragons share CenturyLink Field with the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL and Seattle Sounders FC of MLS. Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said that “he doesn’t mind” the fact that the XFL …
2019 2020 Guardians Team Formation New York is one of two metropolitan areas, the other being Los Angeles, to have hosted teams in both the original XFL in 2001 and the 2020 XFL; the New York/New Jersey Hitmen were the Guardians’ predecessors in the previous league. The New York metropolitan area has 16 professional teams in some form or another, …
2019 2020 Wildcats Team Formation The Los Angeles Wildcats (LA Wildcats) are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California. The team is a franchise of the new XFL founded by Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment and plays its home games at the Dignity Health Sports Park, which is also home to the MLS’s LA …
2019 2020 Roughnecks Team Formation Houston has previously hosted several other alternative professional football teams, including the Texans of the World Football League (unrelated to the current NFL team of the same name), Gamblers of the United States Football League, and Thunderbears of the Arena Football League. The city has a long association with commissioner Oliver Luck, who played for …
2019 2020 Defenders Team Formation The DC Defenders are a professional American football team based in Washington, D.C. The team is an owned-and-operated member of the new XFL founded by Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment and plays its home games at Audi Field, a soccer-specific stadium owned and originally built by Major League Soccer’s D.C. United, who leases the land from …