When to kickoff?
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:20 am
When the XFL comes back in 2022 when will they kickoff? Will it be the weekend after Super Bowl or will they wait until later in the spring after March madness?
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If the NFL adds a 17th game, that will push the league back a week as well (unless they start a week earlier).FootballYoda wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:20 am When the XFL comes back in 2022 when will they kickoff? Will it be the weekend after Super Bowl or will they wait until later in the spring after March madness?
Scheduling might be a bit tricky if the XFL continues to share stadiums with NFL teams - they wouldn't be able to schedule home games early in the year if you're overlapping with the NFL, even if it's just for the first week.Tank55 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:37 am I bet the XFL starts the week after the Super Bowl again. I do think there's an argument to be made for trying to overlap the season a bit with the NFL -- run games on the Saturday of NFL's Conference Championship Sunday, both days of the bye week before the Super Bowl, and then on the Saturday before and maybe even the early window on Super Bowl Sunday. That would let you get your product in front of football fans while they're still in "football" mode.
Just an idea. Comes with a host of issues. Obviously makes things even harder on the cold weather cities. Weeks 9 and 10 would run up against the opening of March Madness, and the playoffs would run against MLB's opening weekend. Most importantly, I'm not sure if that would be more valuable from a broadcast value perspective. But interesting to think about.