The 2020 XFL season kicks off next month. That’s right, we won’t have any time to miss football after the Super Bowl because Vince McMahon’s second stab at a spring league will get underway the following weekend.
With McMahon’s money, eight teams from all around the country and a pretty sweet television deal, the league seems to have a pretty good foundation. But will it last this time? Can spring football legitimately work? We’ve seen the XFL fail once. We witnessed the launch and very sudden crash of the AAF just last year.