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How the XFL will be different from the NFL

TAMPA — When XFL founder Vince McMahon hired Oliver Luck to be the commissioner of the rebooted spring professional football league, he asked him to reimagine the game.

Easier said than done, especially when tens of millions of Americans love football as it already is. So how then do you “reimagine” the game without repudiating it?

At the XFL Summer Showcase at Raymond James Stadium this weekend, we asked Luck that very question. Here are some of the league’s ideas:

1. Multiple forward passes

Why is it that offenses are allowed to throw only one forward pass per play?