The Enhanced Games is organizing an alternative to the corrupt Olympic Games. The first sports event without drug testing.

https://nitter.1d4.us/enhanced_games/status/1670862210132738073

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    This is just HE HATE ME from the failed XFL launch back in the early '00s, when Vince McMahon thought C-list athletes doing Football meets American Gladiators was going to print money.

    It did not.

    Besides, haven't we established - years ago - that all these people are already about as roided up as you can get?

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      I thought the XFL was fun. But ESPN and the rest of sports journalists felt it was an insult to their entire profession. How dare the world have more than one league! Players dating cheerleaders? It's called the No Fun League for a reason.

      I went to an XFL game and it was great atmosphere. Everyone was there to have a good time.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Same thing but for arena football. IMO Vince McMahon's involvement was what killed the XFL - he had a lot of bad ideas from cringeworthy bits with the cheerleaders to putting it on prime time TV (while the NFL has existed comfortably without much competition in its own time slot for ages).

        • Retrosound [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          Arena football was lame because it wasn't real football. I'd rather watch Canadian football (eww). But XFL was real football with a couple of twists. Didn't they give 5 points for long field goals?