BREAKING: XFL Firing All Employees & Suspending Operations

April 10, 2020, 12:28pm EST (Updated: February 7, 2023, 6:39pm)By Darrelle Lincoln

This might truly be the end of the XFL.

On Friday, it was reported that the league was not only suspending operations, but they fired all employees due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Breaking: XFL is suspending operations and has laid off all of its employees because of the COVID-19 pandemic, per @FieldYates pic.twitter.com/j2xiwWAzE9
— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) April 10, 2020

NEWS: on a call today with COO Jeffery Pollock, XFL employees were just informed that the league is suspending operations and all employees have been laid off. Another sport impacted further by the current COVID-19 crisis.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) April 10, 2020

Credentialed XFL Reporter Konnor Folk noted on Thursday that the league will be refunding 2021 ticket deposits and credits in response to the economic hardships that have impacted millions of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

https://twitter.com/KonnorFulk_XFL/status/1248350740688646144

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NFL Network reporter Tom Pelissero added that the word ‘shut down’ was used during a conference call:

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The XFL just held a conference call in which all employees were told the league is suspending operations. Said one: "The word they used was 'shut down'."
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) April 10, 2020

https://twitter.com/KonnorFulk_XFL/status/1248648526302756864

XFL owner Vince McMahon had promised to invest $500 million its first 3 years, but now it seems the doors may be closing for good.