Coming to ESPN tomorrow, Thursday, February 2:
THIS WAS THE XFL
Director:
Charlie Ebersol
Premiere:
DOC NYC 2016
About:
An entertaining reappraisal of the much-hyped but disastrous alternate to the NFL.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
The kind of sports story even non-sports fans will love, Charlie Ebersol’s doc chronicles the ill-fated history of the XFL, the no-holds-barred brainchild of NBC’s Dick Ebersol and WWE’s Vince McMahon. Launched to fanfare in 2001, the extreme football league lasted only a single season, making up rules – and breaking them – as it went along. Ebersol’s son Charlie directs this wild look back at what went wrong with the XFL and its role in redefining broadcast sports.
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