XFL Teams Announced

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Football leagues can be a hard thing to figure. Of course, the NFL is the biggest and best thing going today in the football world. Any other league that tries to compete with it has failed. The only one that's been able to hang around is Arena football, but even that's a stretch. Vince McMahon tried once already and failed. Now he's trying again.

Vince tried this exact league in 2001, but it folded after just one season. It was a horrible idea, so maybe things have been figured out for this league. We will have eight teams make up the league this year, which is set to kick off the week after the Super Bowl.

The teams, and cities, have been announced. They are:

Dallas Renegades (Globe Life Park in Arlington)
D.C. Defenders (Audi Field)
Houston Roughnecks (TDECU Stadium)
Los Angeles Wildcats (Dignity Health Sports Park)
New York Guardians (MetLife Stadium)
Seattle Dragons (CenturyLink Field)
St. Louis BattleHawks (The Dome at America's Center)
Tampa Bay Vipers (Raymond James Stadium)

All eight head coach jobs have been filled for the upstart league: Bob Stoops (Dallas), Jim Zorn (Seattle), Jonathan Hayes (St. Louis), June Jones (Houston), Kevin Gilbride (New York), Marc Trestman (Tampa Bay) and Pep Hamilton (Washington, D.C.)

The biggest difference between the last go around and this formation is lack of wrestling tie ins. Vince has a company that is totally separate from what he does with WWE and that company will be handling the XFL.

I really hope, for Vince's sake, that this isn't another failed business venture. Here's hoping that he gets this right for this time around with the XFL!