I always loved how they expected viewers to get really worked up over the fact that the championship winning team got a million dollars (to be split between everyone on the team.)
Meanwhile, NFL players were too busy using a million dollars as dog toilet paper to notice.
That is a good point, and considering the latest strike, XFL may have actually been far less pretentious than the NFL. Now I feel bad that I've never seen this beyond poe.
First football league with bird's-eye camera and mic'd players, which are both customary during Monday Night Football nowadays.
Also, first football league to replace cointosses for possession with making opposing players both run at a ball full speed and sever their fibia's to get it.
I remember watching the inaugural game and one of the guys separated his shoulder before the game even started, and Jesse "The Body" Ventura went on and on about how badass it was that you could end your career before even taking a snap.