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FOOTBALL. IS. BACK. For the first time ever here on our Patreon, and maybe for the first time in many many years for a lot of people, we'll

XFL 2001 - The First Game: New York/New Jersey Hitmen vs Las Vegas OutlawsFor the first time ever here on our Patreon, and maybe for the first time in many many years for a lot of people, we'll be taking a look at the XFL. More specifically, we'll be watching the very first game that the XFL ever put on. It's the New York and/or New Jersey Hitmen taking on the Las Vegas Outlaws. Vince McMahon & all of the money that he has behind him decided to try to take a stab at this whole 'football' thing, right after the 2001 NFL Superbowl. All the stars are here. Legends will be born. Football will never be the same, again.Watch here!

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John Nickell

The boys have done it again.

John Nickell

You know what. That’s true

Statutory Ape 696969

Shout out the Birmingham thunderbolts. Fucking Weldon and Jameson Willis. GOATs

:D

oh lets fucking go

:D

3 hours? OH HELL YEA

John Nickell

3 hours of the boys. What a night baby

Justin aka CookiesGuy

I was at this game as an 11 year old 😭 My parents bought season tickets to the Hitmen and I think we went to like two games

Longways

Rip Sam Boyd stadium. Random side bar Goldberg’s monster truck won 3 world championships in that stadium.

Cornelius Longway

Skee, and I mean this with all due respect, woah.

geeman360

I have been waiting all month for this, now it's here and it's 3 motherfucking hours long. THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Cad Chamberlain

Camera man on the field during plays is pretty crazy. Imagine the cords and everything

Monk E. Dangerously

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Stop the Matsunaga

is the video quality fucked up or am I have a stroke seeing squares on James face?

John Nickell

Looks to me we will see another XFL with JR and king in the future. Let’s go

Angel

REAL PIGSKIN

Wishing you all a great time

It's so funny to me that the NFL adopted so much of the XFL's presentation. Sky cam, sideline interviews, and mic'd up players weren't a thing before this.

Alexander Mendoza

NBC switching the feed and never going back was pretty based

D.J.O.

Ron Merkenson

sleezatron 900000

As a dennis anderson fan man f that truck and f tom meents

Dave K

So you guys talk about how long they had to practice. It was not nearly as long as you think. The teams got drafted in october 2001. Teams had 3 months to train with a coach and team they had never been with before. Not nearly enough time to get any real cohesion, especially in the lines, as was pointed out. To give you an idea of how fucked the whole thing was heres this bit of info. lot of people know the fun fact about Tommy Maddox right? wins the Million Dollar Game, gets league MVP, goes back to the NFL after the XFL folds and is a backup for the steelers and gets a super bowl ring right after being NFL comback player the year in 2002? Tommy Maddox WASNT EVEN DRAFTED. He was put on the LA Extreme as a ploy to get city interest due to the college he went to back in the day being close to LA. The dude who ended up being the league MVP at the end of the season didnt even get *drafted* by one of the teams.

Teemu Toikka

mid game trades is the funniest idea ever

HeHateMe

The boys should definitely get matching He Hate Me XFL jerseys

Longways

Haha yup that how it always was u either liked one or the other

Go Hang A Salami I'm a Lasagna Hog

A month before this game the XFL flew an XFL blimp over the Oakland Coliseum during an NFL playoff game. They were planing to fly it over the Coliseum during the AFC Championship game too but a few days before the game the pilots lost control of the blimp and it crashed onto a boat; no one was hurt but the blimp caused millions in damage to itself and the boat it crashed on.

Go Hang A Salami I'm a Lasagna Hog

Fun Fact He Hate Me AKA Rod Smart actually played in the NFL after the XFL; he played 1 season for the Eagles and 4 seasons for the Panthers. Also he's the cousin of former Eagles 1st round pick and huge bust "FredEx" Freddie Mitchell.

Chase Richard-Son is AN Jarboni Mark, brudda

clearly the XFL didn't work out, but you kinda gotta give credit to the idea. If the attitude era could make wrestling start to pop off again, in theory that same attitude could be applied to football to get eyes on the product. Vince starting "the attitude era of football" is a really funny way to put it. Also, when the XFL came back in 2020, I was actually kinda excited about it. I have no plans of watching the Rock's UFL or whatever the hell that bullshit is.

Up and coming UK Pro Wrestler DEVIN HERNANDEZ

3 and a half quarters of a stinker with constant Ventura impressions, penalties and He Hate Me, into the most insane 5 minutes of the best XFL game of all time, this is definitely gonna be an early contender for SGH of the year IMO

Gerard Smith

Watching this has given me great insight into how Bobby Heenan must have felt when Mike Tenay was calling lucha matches. "He Hate Me grids the wide liner into the pocket zone!". I'm Irish, I know nothing about America Ball...

scottelot

I've never seen an American football game in my life. What an experience.

Clinton Mac

Pep Boys are back in town!

David

only the deadlock boys can get me to watch an american football game

Taylor

Man the wikipedia about this is crazy, "Stadiums featured trash-talking public address announcers and scantily-clad cheerleaders who were encouraged to date the players. Instead of a pre-game coin toss, XFL officials put the ball on the ground and let a player from each team scramble for it to determine who received the kickoff option. The practice was dubbed "The Human Coin Toss" by commentators" "In the face of declining ratings, NBC and the XFL aggressively promoted that the week 6 game between the Orlando Rage and Las Vegas Outlaws would feature a behind-the-scenes visit into the locker room of the Rage's cheerleaders at halftime. "

Hank Kronenberg

Fast forward to now, we've had three iterations of the XFL, a new version of the USFL, to what we have now in the new UFL. And yet the problem: nobody is really interested in watching because it's just simply not the NFL.

450 splash no clothes style

First time I'll ever be watching an american football/handegg/armored rugby game in my life. Let y'all know my thoughts later on.

Real North Carolina judge Dick Boner

Helluva first game lol. Only way it could’ve been crazier was if it was a bad weather day, as long as there’s no lightning motherfuckers will play ball

FalconX9K

The X stands for XTREME!

FalconX9K

15:46 Dude just straight-up hit him with a Burning Lariat

Hot and Cold Aaron Cox

He hate me WAS in the espn 2k5! James even used him as a backup for David Arquette in his franchise, and changed his in game name to Mr. He-Hate-Me (I'm only 30 minutes so if James finds this out later into the SGH my b)

Statutory Ape 696969

I love spring leagues. Birmingham iron, Tampa vipers. Ma fuckin Birmingham stallions

Tandy Coggs

we need the million dollar game now

Jared Winn

Gimmick infringement: in Feb 2001 he was still called “Sugar” Shane Helms.

TheGhettoWorks

The funny thing is how the three of them were making fun of the NY/NJ QB dropping the ball saying it was heavy or slippery. The ball they used was actually really bad to use. It was so bad they later would have to sand the balls for better grip on them

the big amish nick kurtz

it was great, they really found the perfect balance of expectations vs quality of football. it had pretty universal praise as well

DEADLOCK

We talked about that in this video :)

ConsulttheBones

There simply aren't enough dads to fuel that many leagues we reaching critical dad depletion

ConsulttheBones

We all have to start day drinking and carrying extra flip-phones around to make up for this crisis

W.A.L.

If you guys watch another game, you should find one of the later ones where Jesse Ventura tries to beef with Rusty Tillman or when they advertise a skit where they go in the cheerleader locker room at half time.

Domshar

I am but a simple Bruv, who does not understand American football. But god this was hilarious

Clinton Mac

That loud "BITCH" sounded just like Vince and now I just imagine him screaming from the skybox.

Snappums

The only American football I've ever watched was the nL Puppybowl so this will be an experience.

CJExtreme98

What're are the chances we get full episodes of shows where wrestlers make cameos after this?

Eric Shepperd

I’m like twenty minutes in and we’ve got to get at least one more game from the boys one day. Maybe the million dollar game? I’m crying laughing

Christian Scaggs

Seeing the placement of the cameras here and comparing it to current day NFL is crazy, the production was next level.

Chris Tar

I remember this night. Back when I had a ferret and a huge fever watching this

Felsin

HE HATE ME still the goat. Crazy how much the XFL did in terms of production that changed the NFL. XFL was the first to do the in camera by wire over the field.

NinjaKilla74

Someone's probably mentioned it, but the NFL does sometimes switch broadcasts of the game is a super blowout. Only areas that would keep the og feed are the local markets for the teams in the blowout

YUHHSQUiD

"They should play Mo Bamba" LMAOOO

Charlie Mills

I love how WWE always talk about how they couldn't do the invasion properly due to Time Warner contracts being too high, yet they started an entire football league

Suwamagical

This is the first American football game I’ve ever watched in full

Veeeeeeeera

They were seen as too high BECAUSE Vince started a football league

Jordan Crawley

Rod “He Hate Me” Smart being a former Carolina Panther legend and James not realizing it was so disappointing lol 🥲

Veeeeeeeera

For the record, Rod Smart wanted “They Hate Me” but was told that was too long. And the absolute legend wouldn’t be deterred.

BigJ

You guys definitely need to do a game with JR and Jesse. I need to hear that dynamic and the bits Jawnny can come up with.

Beebo_Brando

welcome to the next non wrestling saga of somthings going to happen I cant wait

teej

gotta be the most consistently funny SGH of all time. Last year we were on a quest to find a good Undertaker main event, this year we're on a quest to find out who hate him

Jubs

Week 2 game of Chicago Enforcers at Los Angeles Xtreme is widely regarded as the best XFL game. Would be fun to watch you guys watch that.

LOL WHOEVER LOST THAT ATL V PHI WC GO NATS

this was awesome. if you stretch these UFC id you gotta find the best game, worst game or just something in the middle of the season to see how production progressed, then come back to the Championship right before the NFL season actually starts this year

Louis Mühlhausen

Might actually be my favourite deadlock anything... WHO HATES HIM!

Mattie

Jesse ventura is my favorite deadlock guest. Number 7 gets the grenade in the helmet the submarine with holes in it and fuck it im putting a light bulb in his mouth

Mattie

If more games were like the game they switched to the XFL could've been a football G league that shit felt like i left a 5 year old football game to go watch the Superbowl

CrustyJay

53:57 is such a fucking god tier moment omfg XD

MarioDaBean

It ran even longer beyond that because of a player having to be stretchered off and a power outage, and it ended up delaying a heavily hyped SNL episode hosted by Jenifer Lopez. After that, NBC instituted a policy that XFL coverage would be cut off at 11pm EST, regardless of whether or not the game was over

Sampo Salo

This was the first game of football I have ever watched and I still haven't seen a full game of football.

Mason Sartin

This was so fun to listen to, I'd absolutely love if, like UFC, every now and then we watch a football game. Don't even have to be XFL, just a random game. Maybe some gridiron classics?

Phillip Myaz

Please watch the Week 2 game between LA and Chicago, crazy double OT game with JR and Jesse Ventura on commentary. BTW. why do you hate him?

It's me, it's me, it's JST, Jimmy Shnuka Twonior

This commentary team is legendary for me. Ventura for obvious reasons, but I'm also a big fan of Matt Vasgersian because he was the commentator on the MLB The Show games for years.

Charlie Hopper.

I wish I still had my XFL football that they gave us for buying one of their ppv's

Sweetz

Okay but who hates him and why