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Originally Posted by Scorch
I don’t know if you’re just making this up, but this couldn’t be any further than the truth
While viewership was steady, attendance was actually growing.
St. Louis, which only had their lower bowl available, eventually opened up their upper bowl mid season because there was so much local demand to see the battlehawks live
https://www.stltoday.com/sports/foot...abcfad095.html
Unlike their previous partnership with NBC, They had strong relations with Fox and ESPN who put on quality production
They were going to last longer than initial expectations |
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Thou shall not call another poster out without supporting facts.
Wrong on attendance;
Week 1: 69,818
Week 2: 76,285
Week 3: 81,942
Week 4: 70,204
Week 5: 64,246
Total: 334,272
They had a bit of an early peak but were trending back to below week 1 levels. These numbers are worse than CFL attendance numbers.
https://fanbuzz.com/xfl/xfl-attendance/
Wrong again on TV viewership;
TV Ratings Average:
Week 1: 3.1
Week 2: 2.1
Week 3: 1.6
Week 4: 1.4
Week 5: 1.2
Average: 1.9
Pretty self explanatory here as TV viewership was degrading on a weekly basis.
https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2...rship-numbers/
We obviously have different views of what "
growing" attendance and "
steady" TV viewership are as the numbers certainly don't support your case. Had the season played out it's likely the numbers would have continued to dwindle to the point there would have been a lot of pressure on the league. It's possible it may have lasted another season but it was always going to come down to how much money McMahon was willing to lose and for how long before he once again folded the league.