The XFL may be dead yet again. But is it buried? We don’t know quite yet.
Following a relatively successful rollout to the second incarnation of the league’s inaugural season, the XFL was forced, like every other sport in the world, to cease operations. They had played just five weeks of a planned 10-week season by the time the COVID-19 epidemic had been getting bad enough to raise legitimate fears in even the most skeptical.
Rather than put a pause on the season, which is what the other active major sports leagues in the country had planned, with the intention of resuming their current seasons at a later date, the XFL decided that it would end the season entirely.