While refreshing a spotty recollection of the XFL, which many thought stood for “Extreme Football League” but in reality stood for (and amounted to) nothing, I was reminded that most franchises were named for insane or criminal activity, and what Bob Costas said to TV’s Conan O’Brien:
“It has to be at least a decade since I first mused, ‘Why doesn’t somebody combine mediocre high school football with a tawdry strip club?’ Finally, somebody takes my idea and runs with it.”
So you knew the XFL and a team called the Outlaws were going to be popular in Las Vegas.