While metro Detroit prepares for the April return of the Michigan Panthers in Year 2 of the USFL’s reboot — now with games at Ford Field! — there’s another league revving up a reboot beginning next weekend.
It’s time for the XFL, Version 3.0, which kicks off Feb. 18 in Arlington, Texas (and elsewhere). The eight-team league has a flashy owner — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — plus a few carryover cities from 2020’s version 2.0 (Houston, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington) and some high-profile opening-week TV slots on ABC, ESPN and FX.
What it doesn’t have, of course, is a team remotely near Detroit.