Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson co-owner of the XFL took to Instagram to update fans on the progress of its relaunch in 2023. He posted this clip from his appearance on CNBC’s TechCheck last week.
“And finally, for all us PRO FOOTBALL FANS ~ we are a little over one year away from the exciting and highly anticipated 2023 spring football debut of our XFL 🏈 🏆
We have taken the time to build out a truly exceptional and hungry football organization.
At the top of 2022, we’ll be excited and proud to announce our new broadcast partners, new teams, new cities, new innovations, new alignments and much more.
As an XFL owner and a man who’s NFL dream never came true, this is a full circle passion venture for me where now I can help create opportunities for players to live out THEIR DREAMS and take care of their families. Here’s to building out the game of football”
At the time of this writing it has received over 2,135,601 views in 3 days.
In the clip he talks about ‘new broadcast partners, new teams, new cities.’ However in the post he also talks about ‘new innovations, new alignments and much more.’
The MarkCast
As Mike Mitchell said on this weeks The MarkCast. The XFL could look a bit different from what we know from the 2.0 era.
It is going to be an interesting 2022 as all this news unfolds.
4th&long
December 28, 2021 at 10:50 am
Well that’s why the Rock is there, to get eyeballs, he has the following for sure and that is likely en lieu of major financial contribution.
Fox is using NFL games TV ads for USFL which has 10-20 million eyeballs but they don’t have a celeb like Rock on SocMedia.
Joe Smith
December 30, 2021 at 7:50 pm
Fox hasn’t started advertising on Foxnews or Fox and Friends – or Hannity – or Tucker Carlson – Fox hasn’t even started playing their good cards yet – Fox News has a zillion viewers – I wish both leagues the best but Fox is a heavy hitter in all sense of the term –