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XFL (2020)
XFL may refer to: Sports * XFL (2001) The XFL was a professional American football league that played its only season in 2001. The XFL was operated as a joint venture between the WWE, World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and NBC. The XFL was conceived as an outdoor football l ..., a defunct American football league that dissolved after playing a single season * XFL (2020–2023), a defunct American football league that merged with the United States Football League Vehicles * Bell XFL Airabonita, a 1940 U.S. Navy experimental interceptor aircraft * Jaguar XFL, a 2016–present Sino-British executive sedan * Loening XFL, a canceled 1933 U.S. Navy fighter aircraft Other uses * Xinhua Finance Limited, part of Beat Holdings See also * Extreme Football League (other) * X League (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XFL (2001)
The XFL was a professional American football league that played its only season in 2001. The XFL was operated as a joint venture between the WWE, World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and NBC. The XFL was conceived as an outdoor football league that would begin play immediately after the National Football League (NFL) season ended, to take advantage of the perceived lingering public desire to watch football after the NFL and college football seasons conclude. It was promoted as having fewer rules to encourage rougher play than other major leagues, while its telecasts featured sports entertainment elements inspired by professional wrestling (and in particular, the WWF's then-current "Attitude Era"), including heat (wrestling), heat and kayfabe, and suggestively-dressed cheerleaders. Commentary crews also featured WWF commentators (such as Jesse Ventura, Jim Ross, and Jerry Lawler) joined by sportscasters and veteran football players. Despite the wrestling influence, the games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XFL (2020–2023)
The XFL was a Professional football (gridiron), professional American football Minor league football (gridiron), minor league consisting of eight teams located across the United States in mid-sized to major markets. It is now one of the two athletic conference, conferences of the United Football League (2024), United Football League (UFL), along with the United States Football League (2022–2023), United States Football League (USFL). The XFL league headquarters were in Arlington, Texas. The league was founded by WWE executive Vince McMahon in 2018, as a continuation successor to the XFL (2001), league of the same name he founded in 2001. McMahon founded the new XFL to create a league with fewer off-field controversies and faster, simpler play compared to the bigger National Football League (NFL), and one without the features inspired by professional wrestling or Sports entertainment, entertainment elements of its predecessor. The league and its eight teams were originally own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell XFL Airabonita
The Bell XFL Airabonita was an American experimental carrier-based interceptor aircraft developed for the United States Navy by Bell Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo, New York. It was similar to and a parallel development of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ land-based P-39 Airacobra, differing mainly in the use of a tailwheel undercarriage in place of the P-39's tricycle gear. Only one prototype was built. Design and development The XFL-1 (Bell Model 5) was powered by a single 1,150 hp (858 kW) Allison XV-1710-6 liquid-cooled V12 engine installed amidships behind the pilot and driving a three-bladed Curtiss Electric propeller in the nose through a 10.38 ft (3.16 m) extension shaft. The aircraft had provisions for a single 37 mm (1.46 in) Oldsmobile T9 cannon which could be replaced by a .50 in (12.7 mm) Browning M2/AN machine gun firing through the propeller shaft and two .30 in (7.62 mm) machine guns in the fuselage nose. It firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaguar XFL
The Jaguar XF (X260) is an executive car, executive/Luxury car#Executive / mid-size luxury, mid-size luxury Sports sedan, sports saloon manufactured and marketed under the Jaguar Cars, Jaguar marque of Jaguar Land Rover from 2015 to 2024, in saloon and Estate car, estate body styles. Following the first generation steel-bodied Jaguar XF (X250), X250 XF introduced in 2007, the second-generation XF sedan/saloon debuted at the 2015 New York International Auto Show, noted for its aluminium bodywork. In 2020, the XF received a facelift that mostly improved the XF's interior. As of 2022, the XF Sportbrake has been downgraded to compete in the D-segment while retaining its E-segment exterior dimensions. Production of the XF ceased in mid-2024. Overview The XF is an evolution of the original J-Blade design pioneered in the Jaguar XF (X250), X250 XF, with a largely similar silhouette. Effort was made to build a uniform design language across Jaguar's Sedan (automobile), saloon range. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loening XFL
The Loening XFL was a proposed carrier-based fighter aircraft to be built by Loening Aeronautical Engineering for the US Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio .... It won a 1933 competition, but Loening was already busy building other aircraft, so the contract was canceled. Specifications (as designed) References Bibliography * Loening FL Loening aircraft {{aero-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Holdings
Beat Holdings Limited (, ), formerly known as Xinhua Holdings Limited (; ) and Xinhua Finance, is a company founded in 1999. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, listed on the Tokyo Standard Board (9399), and is engaged in the provision of financial information and services, primarily in the Chinese market. The company's subsidiary, Xinhua Finance Media Ltd, was listed on NASDAQ (), but was unlisted in 2011 after the exposure of a scandal. Xinhua News Agency owned a stake in Xinhua Finance of 3.45% in February 2006. However, the state-owned news agency had sold all of its stake prior to 2007. The agency stated in a press release in 2007 that they have no relation to Xinhua Finance. In 2013, former CEO Loretta Fredy Bush, as well as former board members Shelly S. Singhal and Dennis L. Pelino, were charged with and sentenced for conspiracy to impede the lawful functions of the Internal Revenue Service. This was in connection with them being charged with engaging in a conspiracy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extreme Football League (other)
Extreme Football League can mean: * Xtreme Football League, a planned indoor football league for 1999 that would merge with af2 in 2000 * X League (women's football), a women's football league in the United States * XFL (2001), a professional American football league in the United States that played for one season in 2001 * XFL (2020) XFL may refer to: Sports * XFL (2001) The XFL was a professional American football league that played its only season in 2001. The XFL was operated as a joint venture between the WWE, World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and NBC. The X ..., the second incarnation of the league that began play in 2020 See also * XFL (other) * X League (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
