Seattle, WA
XFL returns to Seattle in 2023
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – FEBRUARY 22: A normal inside view of CenturyLink Area with the XFL midfield emblem after the sport between the Seattle Dragons and the Dallas Renegades at CenturyLink Area on February 22, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. The Dalla
SEATTLE – The XFL is coming again to Seattle.
On Sunday, co-owners Dany Garcia and Dwayne Johnson made the announcement at an XFL Townhall in Arlington, TX that Seattle is amongst eight cities that can have a staff and the season is ready to start out subsequent yr.
Arlington, Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Antonio, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. had been additionally named as host websites.
Seattle’s staff can be coached by Jim Haslett nevertheless it’s unknown what the staff’s mascot can be.
In 2020, the XFL had eight franchises, which included the Seattle Dragons, and performed 5 weeks earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic suspended operations.
Video games can be performed at Lumen Area and set to start out in February.
“We’ve had a transparent imaginative and prescient for the XFL – the values to instill, the range of our leaders, the innovation of the sport and the way we wish to deeply have interaction with our communities to allow them to assist carry this imaginative and prescient to life,” Garcia stated.
The XFL additionally performed one season in 2001.
“There’s nice vitality constructing inside our league and there’s nonetheless far more to come back… and I can promise it’s going to be well worth the wait. We now have been engaged on contemporary, new logos and uniforms – even working with a few of the staff names you already know – that can match the dynamic and revolutionary imaginative and prescient of our league,” Johnson stated.