That's why XFL quarterbacks won't be allowed to end their runs with slides in order to avoid head-on collisions with linebackers. They're going to go down. They're going to go down hard. Bonham for one, is not amused. That strikes me as tasteless.
Quarterbacks are human beings with families and careers and aspirations for themselves.
If the only way the XFL thinks it can make it is to damage a person and ruin their career with concussions, then the league will last an even shorter period of time. We've got enough serious violence in football. And if they continue to hype that theme, somebody's going to be paralyzed or killed. It seems as if McMahon is trying to give fans something they don't want. No surprise, since the WWF impresario is not used to working with professional athletes.