Football Trivia Quiz: The XFL

The XFL was an ill-fated attempt by World Wrestling Entertainment boss Vince McMahon and NBC in 2001 to create a viable national outdoor professional football league. Promising a hard-hitting brand of football and a financial incentive to win, the league's first and only season kicked off just six days after Super Bowl XXXV. A Nielsen rating of 9.5 gave NBC a Saturday night ratings win and the top-rated sports program for the weekend of Feb. 3-4, 2001, but ratings steadily dropped as the league's perceived lack of talent and its inability to live up to promises became evident to viewers. Here is a football trivia quiz that may stump die-hard trivia buffs and so-called football experts since it pertains to the first and only season of the XFL.

Questions

1. Who was the first XFL alum to play in a Super Bowl?

2. Who was the only Heisman Trophy winner to play in the XFL?

3. Who was the head coach that NBC color commentator Jesse Ventura attempted to bait into an on-air feud?

4. Which former Dallas Cowboy led the XFL in receiving yards?

5. Which team finished the XFL's only regular season with the best record?

6. Who was the MVP of the XFL's Million Dollar Game?

7. Which former Oklahoma All-American and 1987 first-round NFL draft pick served as a color commentator for UPN's broadcasts of XFL games?

8. Which former Miami Dolphins' first-round draft pick led the XFL in rushing yards?

9. What venue hosted the XFL's Million Dollar Game?

10. What honor did the NFL bestow on Tommy Maddox, who led the Los Angeles Xtreme to the XFL title and claimed league MVP honors, in 2002?

Answers

1. Former Las Vegas Outlaw wide receiver/kick returner Yo Murphy, who played for the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI

2. 1994 Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam, who suited up for the Memphis Maniax

3. Rusty Tillman of the New York/New Jersey Hitman

4. Stepfret Williams, who had 828 yards on 51 catches for the Birmingham Thunderbolts

5. Orlando Rage (8-2)

6. Jose Cortez, who went on to placekick for six different NFL teams after winning a XFL championship with the Los Angeles Xtreme

7. Brian Bosworth

8. Chicago Enforcers running back John Avery, whose 800 rushing yards were 245 more than the league's second-leading rusher in Rod "He Hate Me" Smart of the Las Vegas Outlaws.

9. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

10. Comeback Player of the Year

Sources:

http://www.all-xfl.com/xfl/stats/xfl_leaders.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_XFL_Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Maddox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashaan_Salaam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Tillman