Football fans weren’t exactly impressed with the look of the XFL’s South Division championship trophy that was handed to the Arlington Renegades on Saturday night.
The Renegades defeated the Houston Roughnecks 26-11 at TDECU Stadium to punch their ticket to the XFL Championship Game. Arlington will play the DC Defenders, who outlasted the Seattle Sea Dragons 37-21 in the North Division Championship contest.
Arlington may have captured the first of two elusive trophies. Needless to say, however, fans weren’t the least bit pleased with the design of the South Division championship trophy.
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WWE executive chairman Vince McMahon founded the XFL back in 1999, and the league completed its inaugural season in 2001. However, financial issues forced the league to close its doors after just one year.
McMahon announced in January 2018 that he was bringing back the XFL. The league relaunched in 2020 with eight teams, but the season shut down before completion because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
McMahon filed for bankruptcy and planned to put the league up for sale at auction. But wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock Johnson, business partner and ex-wife Dany Garcia and RedBird Capital Partners founder Gerry Cardinale teamed up to purchase the league for $15 million.
The Rock, Garcia and Gardinale successfully relaunched the XFL season in 2023, with the campaign kicking off on Feb. 18 (six days after the 2023 NFL season ended). The championship game between the Renegades and Defenders will be played on May 13.
The XFL confirmed in March that they’re planning to return to action in 2024
