Bears Fans Offered How to Improve The XFL, Prove Instead You're All Terrible

Most Chicago Bears fans don't have a sharp memory when it comes to the XFL. All they can recall is it was a football league implemented by WWE owner Vince McMahon back in the early 2000s. It lasted one season, suffered from terrible ratings and folded swiftly due to poor management. McMahon lost tens of millions of dollars over it. By that point, experts felt the latest attempt to offer competition to the NFL was gone. It seems though McMahon had never truly given up on the idea. Almost two decades later the announcement came down that he planned to revive the league in 2020. There are certainly skeptics out there. At the same time, many are eager to see if a new league can find footing given recent frustrations with fans over the NFL.

It's likely that once the league is implemented Chicago is going to get one of the projected teams. The city controls one of the largest media markets in the country so that's a given. Knowing this I decided to pose a simple question to Bears fans.

Bears fans:  How would you improve the XFL over what the NFL does now?

Truth be told I expected some genuine answer and in fairness, there were quite a few. However, things...didn't start well. A lot of people were just plain means and even a little bit "controversial" we'll say.

Yikes. Bit of a hostile crowd. Amidst that crowd though there were actually people with quite a few good ideas. Ones that might be fun if installed in the NFL to make it different and more interesting.

Not bad. Overwhelmingly though most fans were in favor of one rule change in particular. It's nothing huge but something that has garnered it's fair share of criticism in the NFL the past few years.

It's funny and more than a little ironic that so many Bears fans are upset with the catch rule these days. After all, it was their beloved team who first benefitted from the rule becoming muddled during the infamous "Calvin Johnson Game" back in 2010 when Detroit got robbed of a victory in Chicago thanks to it. Nonetheless, it's clear that people would like to see a different flavor of football. Maybe, just maybe the XFL can do it right this time.