Vince McMahon originally announced that he was resurrecting the Extreme Football League, or the XFL, in January of 2018. That was a couple of months before Charlie Ebersol and Bill Polian arrived with the proposal for the Alliance of American Football, who got their league started first—but saw it crash before their first season could be completed thanks to an impatient and opportunistic investor who chose to pull out when it wasn’t immediately obvious he would get his way as quickly as he desired.
So it’s almost assured that when the XFL launches in 2020, it will be the only big kid in the little playground that is adjacent to the Disney World that is the NFL.