The defunct XFL used a modified Kansas Plan which, upon the first team scoring, required the opponent to score the same or greater amount of points in the same or fewer downs (i.e. if the first team scored a touchdown, and converted the one-point conversion in three downs, the opponent would have to match that touchdown and conversion in three downs as well).
In leagues where "onside punting" is legal (as of 2013, only Canadian football allows it), the pooch punt can be recovered by the kicking team, which has led to its occasional use as a surprise strategy (the XFL, which allowed onside punting if the ball went 25 yards or more, saw noticeable use of it).
Marlowe, along with several others, was a play-by-play man for the XFL during its first and only season in 2001.
He also has done play-by-play for various other sports include Notre Dame football on NBC, CBS Sports Spectacular, College World Series on ESPN, Major League Soccer, XFL on TNN, boxing on TNN, mixed martial arts on TNN, Syracuse Chiefs AAA baseball, and Syracuse Orange football, basketball, lacrosse, and soccer.
The XFL removed the fair catch rule in an effort to make the game more "extreme." Canadian football and Arena football also do not have fair catch rules, with XFL and CFL preferring a five yard "no-yards" rule instead.
Dinitz is also well known for scheduling the first season of the now-defunct XFL football league.
In 2001 he found himself as the offensive co-ordinator of the San Francisco Demons of the XFL.
In 2001, it was the home field for the single season of the Birmingham Thunderbolts of the XFL.
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Former draft bust (and XFL champ) Tommy Maddox replaced Kordell Stewart early in the season and the Steelers overcame an 0–2 start to win five of their next six games.
Damen Keoki Wheeler (born September 3, 1977 in Sacramento, California) is a former XFL cornerback for the New York/New Jersey Hitmen and a current Arena Football League defensive specialist for the Los Angeles Avengers.
Cox Communications refused to carry the station at first, but by November 2000 began to carry it on channel 14 after customer demand from Star Trek fans and ahead of UPN's coverage of the XFL football league featuring the Las Vegas Outlaws locally.
30 Rod Smart (WKU) - "He Hate Me" became the first former XFL player to appear in a Super Bowl: Super Bowl XXXVIII for the Panthers.
The Loening XFL was a proposed carrier based fighter aircraft to be built by Loening Aeronautical Engineering for the US Navy.
In January 2000, when WWF owner Vince McMahon ventured into the professional football business to form the XFL, he hired Keller as the league's vice president of football operations.
Maddox lost his starting job to Ben Roethlisberger in 2005, and was released in 2006, however still became the first former XFL player to be a part of a Super Bowl champion after the Steelers won Super Bowl XL over the Seattle Seahawks.
This team was part of the failed XFL begun by Vince McMahon of the World Wrestling Federation and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.
In 2001, he was drafted by the Chicago Enforcers of the fledgling XFL with the ninth overall selection, but lost the starting quarterback job to fellow Notre Dame alum Kevin McDougal.
He played for Saskatchewan from 1997–2004, and additionally was the Las Vegas Outlaws' kicker during the XFL's only season in 2001.
The duo provided play-by-play commentary for the radio network of the Birmingham Thunderbolts of the XFL in 2001,