on February 19, the XFL ushers in the Sea Dragons as Jet City’s newest squad. If an off-season football league sounds familiar, that’s because it’s already launched and fizzled out before—twice.
Play in the fledgling league is supposedly faster. It nixes post-touchdown field goals in favor of cleats-on-the-turf plays worth up to three additional points. An overhauled overtime system, double forward-pass allowance, and running game clock are among other rulebook quirks designed to set the XFL apart from its star-studded NFL counterpart. But with a recent inundation of teams here, new and old—the Kraken, OL Reign, even cricket and rugby squads—Seattle’s quintessentially cacophonous fan base could
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