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Goodbye XFL, We Hardly Knew You
APR 10, 3:57 PM
Goodbye XFL, We Hardly Knew You
Colleen Grablick
And just like that, the D.C. Defenders are gone as quickly as they came.
On Friday morning, just months after the start of the XFL’s premiere season, the nascent alternate football league suspended operations, laying off nearly all employees with no plans to return. The news was first reported by ESPN.
The league had already cancelled the remainder of its first season last month amid the coronavirus pandemic, but planned to resume play in 2021.
According to ESPN, XFL CEO Jeffrey Pollack stopped short of explicitly stating the league was going out of business, but based on elegiac reactions on Twitter from employees and fans, the announcement rang like a death knell. When DCist attempted to reach out to D.C. Defenders president Eric Moses over email, the message was met with an error: that inbox doesn’t exist anymore. Even the Defender’s general contact email replied with a failure to deliver. The team, and all XFL franchises, appear to have been wiped from existence.
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Goodbye XFL, We Hardly Knew You
Colleen Grablick
And just like that, the D.C. Defenders are gone as quickly as they came.
On Friday morning, just months after the start of the XFL’s premiere season, the nascent alternate football league suspended operations, laying off nearly all employees with no plans to return. The news was first reported by ESPN.
The league had already cancelled the remainder of its first season last month amid the coronavirus pandemic, but planned to resume play in 2021.
According to ESPN, XFL CEO Jeffrey Pollack stopped short of explicitly stating the league was going out of business, but based on elegiac reactions on Twitter from employees and fans, the announcement rang like a death knell. When DCist attempted to reach out to D.C. Defenders president Eric Moses over email, the message was met with an error: that inbox doesn’t exist anymore. Even the Defender’s general contact email replied with a failure to deliver. The team, and all XFL franchises, appear to have been wiped from existence.
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