There is a new women’s tackle football league starting in April 2021 called the X League. The X League will feature eight teams, The Atlanta Empire, Omaha Red Devils, Nashville Knights, Chicago Blitz. Denver Rush, Austin Sound, Los Angeles Black Storm, and Seattle Thunder.
X League
The X League started 11 years years ago when it was the Lingerie Football League. In 2013 the Lingerie League rebranded as the Legends Football League. Now it is known as the X league.
Via press release on the X League website, they had this to say.
“In the age of female empowerment in sports, the Extreme Football League (or ‘X League’) is set to kick off April 2020. The X League will make history prior to even playing a single game, as the league is announcing it will provide its athletes with ownership equity as they build their tenure in the sport.
Alongside shattering glass ceilings in women’s sport by making its athletes future equity owners, the X League will also be established as the highest echelon of women’s tackle football.
This is not your father’s football league,’ the X League will compromise of some of the world’s most athletic women, battling on a 70-yard field, in 7-on-7 full-contact tackle football. If you miss old school black-and-blue football, played by passionate athletes, the X League, is your league.
The 2020 season of the X League will include eight (8) teams nationally with plans for growth into twenty-four (24) US markets. The 2020 season will feature the Seattle Thunder, Los Angeles Black Storm, Austin Sound, Denver Rush, Chicago Blitz, Atlanta Empire, Nashville Knights, and Omaha Red Devils.
Teams And Game Day
Official team logos, colors, uniforms, and helmet designs will be unveiled in January 2020. X League games will be played at major arenas and stadiums around the country to include accesso ShoWare Center (Seattle), Toyota Arena (Los Angeles), H-E-B Center (Austin), Denver Coliseum (Denver), SeatGeek Stadium (Chicago), Infinite Energy Center (Atlanta), Nashville Auditorium (Nashville) and Ralston Arena (Omaha).
GameDays will be an experience unlike any other in sports, kicking-off with tailgate festivities and once inside the doors of the stadium, be ready for a modern-day Roman Coliseum type battle. Games will conclude with homes teams hosting post-game meet and greet with all attending fans. The inaugural season of the X League will kick off Saturday, April 11, in Austin, Texas, at H-E-B Center and conclude with the first-ever X Cup on S
aturday, September 12.”
Mike Ditka
Just recently, the X League announced that Mike Ditka is now the owner and chairman of the league. Dikta played in the NFL for the Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, and the Dallas Cowboy. Ditka also coached in the NFL; he was head coach of the Chicago Bears and the New Orleans Saints. The former NFL coach helped lead the Bears to a Super Bowl title in 1985.
Ditka had this to say about the women of the X League. “Its time to give women, and girls, the same opportunity to play the game that men play.”
If you love football, you should check the X League in April 2021; I know i will be.
