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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer
Well, it took a while for the XFL team in Las Vegas — one of eight teams in the re-booted football league — to nail down its home playing field.
But the Vegas Vipers now have a venue. It’s Cashman Field, the city-owned former minor league baseball park in downtown Las Vegas that is also used by the Las Vegas Lights soccer team.
Here’s the Vipers schedule released Thursday:
The XFL and Vipers had approached Howard Hughes Corporation about using the Las Vegas Aviators’ Las Vegas Ballpark in Downtown Summerlin. But Aviators chief Don “Donnie Baseball” Logan told the XFL that the Summerlin ballpark would not work and suggested the league check out Cashman Field, the Triple-A Aviators’ former home.
Las Vegas — which seems to be the coveted sports market of the country these days — is home to the NFL Raiders, Indoor Football League Knight Hawks and now the XFL Vipers. There is an agreement between the XFL and Indoor Football League for players to move between the two development leagues as players chase their dreams of playing in the NFL.
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More than two decades ago, the XFL had a team in Las Vegas. The XFL Las Vegas Outlaws played at Sam Boyd Stadium, but the former UNLV football stadium has been closed for good since 2020.
The XFL released the schedule Thursday:
· All 43 XFL games (40 regular season games, two playoffs, one championship) will be featured on a combination of ABC (7 games), ESPN and ESPN2 (22 games), and FX (15 games).
· All XFL games will be streamed on ESPN+ and simulcasted in 142 countries around the world.
The XFL season begins in February after the Super Bowl and here’s a look at the first two weeks of the schedule.
The eight XFL teams are split into two divisions: XFL North (D.C. Defenders, Seattle Sea Dragons, St. Louis Battlehawks, Vegas Vipers) and XFL South (Arlington Renegades, Houston Roughnecks, Orlando Guardians, San Antonio Brahmas).
The Vipers coach is former NFL player Rod Woodson. And here’s the Vipers staff: