Tombstone
Born: 2000 – XFL founding franchise
Folded: May 10, 2001
First Game: February 4, 2001 (L 15-13 @ San Francisco Demons)
Last Game: April 21, 2001 (W 38-6 vs. San Francisco Demons)
XFL Champions: 2001
Stadium
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Opened: 1923
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Ownership
Owner: XFL
Attendance
In addition to the 5 regular season games counted in the chart below, the Xtreme hosted two playoff games at the Coliseum, including the XFL’s Million Dollar Game championship on April 21st, 2001. The title game drew an announced crowd of 24,153 and was the last game the original XFL ever staged.
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Source: Kenn.com Attendance Project
Trophy Case
XFL Most Valuable Player
- 2001: Tommy Maddox
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The Xtreme were the first and – for now – only champions of the XFL, the spring pro football league launched by World Wrestling Entertainment mogul Vince McMahon in 2001. The Xtreme won the league’s “Million Dollar Game” championship that spring. After a pair of attempted revivals, a new XFL hopes to finally crown a new champion in 2023.
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Background
The Los Angeles Xtreme were the winners of the first and only championship of the XFL, the flamboyant but short-lived joint venture between NBC and World Wrestling Entertainment to create an alternative professional football league in the spring.
Tommy Maddox, the former UCLA star quarterback and 1st round draft pick of the Denver Broncos in 1992, was the Xtreme’s lone “name” player. Maddox led the Xtreme to victory in the XFL’s “Million Dollar Game” championship game and he also led the league in passing yards (2,186) and won the Most Valuable Player award. After the season, he signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers and returned to the NFL after a five-year absence. Maddox would win NFL Comeback Player-of-the-Year honors in 2002.
Demise & Aftermath
World Wrestling Entertainment pulled the plug on the XFL on May 10, 2001. The shut down came less than three weeks after the Xtreme won the league’s only championship game with a 38-6 drubbing of the San Francisco Demons at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
In 2020, Vince McMahon re-booted the XFL after a 19-year intermission. Los Angeles and New York were the only cities represented in both the 2001 and 2020 versions of the league. Los Angeles’ new team in 2020 was known as the Wildcats. For the most part the new XFL was positively received by fans and the press. But the league played only 5 weeks before shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and later declared bankruptcy.
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Editor's Pick
This Was The XFL
ESPN Films 30 for 30 (DVD)
Directed by Charlie Ebersol
Charlie Ebersol, son of XFL co-founder Dick Ebersol (NBC Sports), directs this ESPN 30 for 30 documentary re-telling of the star-crossed 2001 season of Vince McMahon’s pro football/pro wrestling mash-up, the XFL. Weirdly, the process of making this film inspired Charlie Ebersol to try his own hand at running a spring football league. Ebersol’s equally messy Alliance of American Football would ultimately become a saga worthy of its own 30 for 30 treatment someday.
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVTi1g1MTOg
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Los Angeles Xtreme Video
The Xtreme host the San Francisco Demons in the XFL’s first championship (and final game) on April 21, 2001
Downloads
4-21-2001 Los Angeles Xtreme Roster for Championship Game
4-21-2001 Los Angeles Xtreme Roster
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