The XFL’s February debut is getting closer and closer as the new league seeks to offer football fans a product to watch in the months between NFL action.
But this new league doesn’t want to be a copycat league in every sense of the term. And one of the big differences they’re introducing gets to the heart of the game itself. The game ball.
Long viewed as the most important part of the game, football doesn’t exist without - well - a football. And the XFL’s will be different.
For starters, the grip pattern on the ball is an ‘X’ pattern (called “X-Pebbles”).