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Extreme Football League can mean: Xtreme Football League, a planned indoor football league for 1999 that would merge with af2 in 2000; X League (women's football), a women's football league in the United States; XFL (2001), a professional American football league in the United States that played for one season in 2001
On September 19, 2023, Axios reported that the XFL was in advanced talks with the USFL to create a "merger of equals" between the two leagues before the XFL 2024 season kicks off in February, with an agreement potentially announced by the end of the month. [1]
The 2022 X League season was the inaugural season of the Extreme Football League (commonly known as the X League) in the United States. It began in June and concluded in September with the Chicago Blitz winning the inaugural "X Cup" championship game. The league had most recently operated in 2019, branded as the Legends Football League (LFL).
The league was originally founded in 2009 as the Lingerie Football League (LFL), and later rebranded as the Legends Football League in 2013. [ 1 ] On December 13, 2019, the league announced that it would not be holding a 2020 season; [ 2 ] instead, it had restructured under its current name, placing new teams mostly in the same locations as the ...
The XFL was a professional American football minor league [2] [3] [4] consisting of eight teams located across the United States in mid-sized to major markets. It is now one of the two conferences of the United Football League (UFL), along with the United States Football League (USFL). The XFL league headquarters were in Arlington, Texas.
The other Xtreme Football League, which was also organized in 1999, merged with the Arena Football League's minor league AF2 before ever playing a single game. In a much later article describing the origins of the league's name, Sports Illustrated stated: "The F and the L act to indicate, if only indirectly, a football league. But the X is a ...
The XFL signed a player personnel partnership with the Indoor Football League, with the IFL functioning as its de facto minor league. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] Brendon White was the first player to exercise the option to join the IFL when he signed with the Massachusetts Pirates , [ 91 ] while offensive lineman Joshua Frazier would later join him after he ...
The team had the league's best passing offense and was nicknamed "L.A.X." as a pun on the IATA code for Los Angeles International Airport. They finished the season in 1st place with a 7–3 record and defeated the Chicago Enforcers in the Playoffs and the San Francisco Demons in the Million Dollar Game with a score of 38–6 to win the league's ...