Finally it happened — the XFL went where no sports broadcast (or any other broadcast) had gone before. Saturday night’s game between the Orlando Rage and the Los Angeles Xtreme was apparently the lowest rated prime time show in television history.
Game 3 of the 2000 Stanley Cup finals was the previous marker of futility, garnering only a 2.3 share. Overnight ratings suggest the XFL broadcast could beat that soundly with a 2.1 share.
Vince McMahon still keeps saying the league is going to be a success in the long term, but NBC will almost certainly bail on the experiment sooner rather than later. Meanwhile WWF stock is down 35 percent since the league’s debut.
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