Following three weeks of play, the XFL’s 8-team league reincarnation is on pace for success. Unlike its original launch in 2001, billionaire Vince McMahon, WWE CEO, believes this version is more grounded in traditional football, and the timing is right.
This is based on a study by the McKinsey Global Institute a few years ago finding that 40 million NFL fans want more football after the Super Bowl. There is a gap of approximately 6 months until the NFL preseason begins. The XFL hopes to fill 10 weeks of this void, and it kicked off the week following the Super Bowl. It will finish in April with the top four teams in a playoff for the championship.
