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So the question is, should a league focus on attracting 20 year olds or 45 year olds? My vote would be for 45 year olds, with families, as the primary audience. You don't want to alienate the younger audience, but by remaining attractive to the 45 year old mom & dad who will pay for themselves and 2-3 kids to attend a game you build a league that hopefully will lock in fans for decades. I suspect that the Tampa Bay Sharks would draw better and sell more merch than the Tampa Bay Mystery Ships ever would, and way more than the Tampa Bay Krunk Xtremes.

Just saying that there are no "Stallions" in the Big 4(5) sports. The fact that the AAF used it as a name testifies to my point that a "classic" name can be a good choice for a pro team in a startup league.

I would say that while the "classics" are common in HS and in the NCAA, they are amazingly rare in pro sports. Bulldogs-- 0 pro teams Huskies-- 0 Wildcats-- 0 Cougars--0 Mustangs--0 Stallions--0 Trojans--0 Spartans--0 Highlanders--0 Gladiators--0 Stars--1 Knights-- 1 (Golden) Warriors--1 Sharks--1 Eagles-- 1 Hawks--1 Falcons--1 Lions--1 Tigers--1 I think the XFL would do well to play up the "Nostalgia, Olde Tyme Footballe" theme by pushing not only old-school play style, but also old-school team names that remind people of HS and College rather than trying to be edgy and kewl. I could see a lot of people getting on board with a retro look to the league and retro names like: NY Knights--Washington Warriors--St. Louis Stallions--Tampa Bay Sharks (or Tigersharks)--Dallas Mustangs--Houston Bulldogs--LA Stars--Seattle Cougars

The rumors and leaks on 2020 XFL team names has begun and if some of these are true it means either MCMahon has lost it and dragged Oliver Luck with him or the entire XFL is designed to be a tax write off. Tampa Bay Mystery Ships? Seattle Subterranean? Dallas Greats? Houston Launchers? This has to be a diversion, right? The XFL cannot possibly be serious with this.

While McMahon, as a conservative, may actually be peeved at the NFL for how it handles the national anthem issue, there is clearly a profit motive here. McMahon believes (maybe right, maybe wrong) that many NFL fans are also conservatives, Trump supporters, etc. and that they will be attracted to a league that takes a stand, that plays on nostalgia for a "traditional" brand of football and that plays up the jingoistic "Patriotic" card. I am sure that to a point he has that right, but then his choices of cities make even less sense. They make no sense from a media standpoint. Placing teams in cities that already are packed with major league franchises (all 4 sports) is already a questionable move, but if his target audience is more conservative, 'Murica types, he would be far better off looking at Birmingham, Orlando, Texas or other Red-State locations. Putting teams in LA, NY, Seattle, DC makes no sense if you want to attract that demographic and then you add on top that no TV station in any of those markets has time to cover XFL games because of all the other teams they need to cover, and I don't see this as a recipe for a successful league.

Are they groupers or grouper sandwiches? I am confused by the bun, lettuce and tomato. It's a grouper, not a piece of bacon.

Will Mookie throw a garbage can through the press box window after the umpire chokes out Radio Raheem in the 7th inning? Not sayin', just sayin'

Fond du Lac Winnebagos -- Could be the native people, could be the RV's. Think of the fun promotions with that one. Fond du Lac (Fightin') Lutherans -- Hey, it is good enough for Notre Dame. Fond du Lac Marines -- Largest employer in the city is Mercury Marine (outboard motors for boats) Fond du Lac Fromages -- Cheese!!!! not just because of the fondue reference, but also because Wisconsin.