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The Los Angeles Xtreme (Professional Football)
After one season, the Los Angeles Xtreme, one of eight WWF/NBC-owned teams
in the X Football
League (Los Angeles, New York/New
Jersey, Chicago, Birmingham, Las Vegas, Memphis, Orlando,
and San Francisco),
closed shop and disbanded along with the rest of the league.
The season lasted
from February through April in 2001. The XFL offers promised "old-fashioned,
smash-mouth football...
with cutting-edge marketing and production values."
It apparently did not work. The Xtreme, however,
did not finish without
achievement. Under Head Coach Al Luginbill,
the Xtreme became XFL champions
in "The Million Dollar Game" by beating the San
Francisco Demons 38-6 at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
The game drew a crowd of
24,153 people. Xtreme players split the $1 million prize 45 ways, each
earning
$22,222. Xtreme quarterback Tommy Maddox won the XFL MVP award.
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