One can make some minor rules tweaks, which the XFL did before play began, and did again before Week 3. But the basic construct is already in place, and adaptations like the ones that wrestling has been making for over 100 years are not possible. It s not like the XFL started from scratch with their people and invented something brand new. All of the players were players in other high school, college, and perhaps professional leagues. All of the coaches were coaches at other levels.
Football is what they know.
If the XFL brass expected something different, their short-sightenedness is inexcusable, and will quite probably lead to their downfall. Vince McMahon s foray into boxing lasted just a few fights, his movie production company a couple of films, his WBF one major show. Paul Herzog has spent far too many hours as a columnist for various Internet sources, and the Wrestling Lariat newsletter, over the past six years. He is a systems engineer at Tellabs in Bolingbrook, Illinois, and is lucky to have a wife that likes the wrestling business, too.