{"id":33396,"date":"2017-12-21T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=33396"},"modified":"2017-12-21T10:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:22:42","slug":"rod-hate-smart-looks-back-vince-mcmahons-xfl-found-football-league-folding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2017\/12\/21\/rod-hate-smart-looks-back-vince-mcmahons-xfl-found-football-league-folding\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod &#8220;He Hate Me&#8221; Smart looks back on Vince McMahon&#8217;s XFL, how he found out the football league was folding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-1625058016\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong>Pancakes and Powerslams Podcast with Rod Smart<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Host: Chris Featherstone<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Interview available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/pancakesandpowerslams\/2017\/12\/20\/pancakes-and-powerslams-episode-299--rod-he-hate-me-smart\">SoundCloud.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Working with Vince McMahon:<\/b> &#8220;It was great. It was awesome, He is an awesome dude. His energy, his beliefs, he always wants what&#8217;s best for the fans. That&#8217;s what I like about him, because that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. At the end of the day, you want the fans to be happy and excited. You entertain them, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. It&#8217;s entertainment, with everything. Because you wanna have a big fan base, you always wanna have that. If you always have that, you&#8217;ll always have a great product. He undertands that. He&#8217;s understood that for decades. So, that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s so successful still, in what he created in the WWE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>What went wrong with the XFL:<\/b> &#8220;I think it was one of those things that, at the beginning, I guess the way they presented the product, fans were thinking football and wrestling mixed together. But no, it wasn&#8217;t that, it was football and entertainment mixed together. A lot of fans didn&#8217;t understand that, because of how it was presented with advertisement. So once they saw the product live, they were like, &#8216;this ain&#8217;t what we thought it was.&#8217; Well, it was football. And that&#8217;s what it was, but it had entertainment as well. That&#8217;s what it was. So if you don&#8217;t understand those two products coming together, then you&#8217;re gonna be like, oh, well this isn&#8217;t what I expected, and you may walk off from it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, I think if they had another year, at the point in time, at least another year, I think people would&#8217;ve got more involved, and it would&#8217;ve had a bigger following. The thing that kind of spoiled it for everything is TV. You know, TV is big, so if you don&#8217;t get certain ratings for a certain time bracket you&#8217;re supposed to be shown on, it&#8217;s gonna be issues. And the biggest issue at the time was money. You can&#8217;t play around with that. Nobody wants to lose millions. So, I think that was the biggest thing that made the company fold. But, I think it was a great product, I think it was perfect for football in the spring. It wasn&#8217;t like it went head-on with the NFL. It wasn&#8217;t in the fall, it competed with whatever was in the spring, I think it was NFL Europe at the time. I think that was pretty much coming to an end anyway. I think it was perfect&#8230; still to this day, I think Vince McMahon is a genius for creating it, him and Dick Ebersol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>When he found out that the XFL was folding:<\/b> &#8220;We as players weren&#8217;t acknowledged ahead of time. I think I found out, me and my roommate [Ben Snell], we were at a bar, maybe a Hooters or something, we were eating and getting some drinks, excited for the next season. And all of a sudden, [the ESPN jingle]. And it comes on that the XFL is folding, and we look at each other like, what? Folded? We just finished the season. I was shocked just as much as anybody else. You know, me being the biggest name in the league, Mr. XFL himself. I was like, wow. I couldn&#8217;t believe it, didn&#8217;t understand it. But, once you read between the lines and understand the business of things of that magnitude, then you kinda understand why things happen the way they do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>If he would return if Vince McMahon started another company:<\/b> &#8220;I would never say that I [won&#8217;t return]. Because, me and Vince being longtime friends, we will always be willing to work with one another. So, that&#8217;s never out of the question. As far as me playing? Man, you can hang those boots up on the power line somewhere, out of reach. My body just won&#8217;t allow that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On Vince McMahon potentially re-creating a football league:<\/b> &#8220;I don&#8217;t look at it as nothing bad at all. 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