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XFL
American football has surpassed baseball in recent years as “America’s past time. ... With this, Vince McMahon, the founder of the WWF, saw an opportunity and took charge to introduce a new and controversial professional football league called the XFL. ... However, these other football leagues do not coincide with the XFL schedule. In addition, the XFL’s strategy is to be a highly differentiated product therefore making the threat of substitutes lower. ... Although, the WWFE has strong brand equity in wrestling, it has the opportunity to hurt the XFL because the WWF events are staged and many consumers might fear that the football games can be staged as well. In addition, because of the low salaries and many other competitive football leagues, there is a very limited talent pool to be chosen from putting the competitiveness of the XFL in jeopardy. ... The XFL’s tangible resources look strong. ... On the human side, there is a conflict as the managerial skills appear to be quite strong with many of the personnel working for the XFL having worked in other competitive football leagues. ... Through its organizational abilities, the XFL was able to use the competencies it employs to transform inputs into outputs. ... Every week there seemed to be a new announcement, as the team at XFL, partly because of strategy and partly because of new issues arising every week wanted to create a buzz and receive plenty of media coverage. ... On one side, the XFL tried to appeal to families because of its low price. ... In the NFL, none of the fans complain about the poor quality of play the first few weeks, but the first four weeks of the XFL season dashed their hopes of becoming a successful league.
The XFL was a creative and innovative idea that did not last long.
Approximate Word count = 1458
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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