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XFL kickoff and punt returns up, compared to NFL
Early returns on the XFL's slew of rule changes reveal at least one significant takeaway. The effort to increase the number of kickoff and punt returns, compared to recent NFL averages, has been largely successful. Through the first eight games of the XFL's 40-game season, 90.1% of kickoffs and 63.4% of punts have been returned. Last season in the NFL, 34.1% of kickoffs and 36.2% of punts were returned. So far, 25% of the XFL's punts have come from the "Go Zone." That compares to 35% during the 2019 NFL season. Overall, Luck said that he hopes the punt-return rate would hit 80% by the end of the season.
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Early returns on the XFL's slew of rule changes reveal at least one significant takeaway. The effort to increase the number of kickoff and punt returns, compared to recent NFL averages, has been largely successful. Through the first eight games of the XFL's 40-game season, 90.1% of kickoffs and 63.4% of punts have been returned. Last season in the NFL, 34.1% of kickoffs and 36.2% of punts were returned. So far, 25% of the XFL's punts have come from the "Go Zone." That compares to 35% during the 2019 NFL season. Overall, Luck said that he hopes the punt-return rate would hit 80% by the end of the season.
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XFL stats 2020: All the new league's passing, rushing, receiving, defensive leaders through Week 2
Passing Leaders:
Rushing Leaders
Receiving leaders
Tackle leaders
Sack leaders
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Passing Leaders:
| NAME | POSITION | TEAM | CMP/ATT | YARDS | TD | INT | RATING |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardale Jones | QB | DC | 39/63 (61.9%) | 511 | 4 | 1 | 102.0 |
| P.J. Walker | QB | HOU | 43/70 (61.4%) | 449 | 7 | 1 | 107.4 |
| Jordan Ta'amu | QB | STL | 50/64 (78/1%) | 493 | 4 | 2 | 106.6 |
| Brandon Silvers | QB | SEA | 28/58 (48.3%) | 308 | 4 | 3 | 65.8 |
| Landry Jones | QB | DAL | 28/40 (70%) | 305 | 1 | 2 | 79.7 |
Rushing Leaders
| PLAYER | POSITION | TEAM | ATT | YARDS | AVG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Jones | RB | STL | 37 | 129 | 3.5 | 0 |
| De'Veon Smith | RB | TB | 27 | 125 | 4.6 | 0 |
| Jordan Ta'amu | QB | STL | 17 | 109 | 6.4 | 0 |
| Cameron Artis-Payne | RB | DAL | 16 | 105 | 6.6 | 2 |
| Jacques Patrick | RB | TB | 22 | 105 | 4.7 | 0 |
Receiving leaders
| PLAYER | POSITION | TEAM | REC | YARDS | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Spruce | WR | LA | 17 | 192 | 2 |
| Rashad Ross | WR | DC | 6 | 147 | 1 |
| Dan Williams | WR | TB | 9 | 145 | 0 |
| Cam Phillips | WR | HOU | 12 | 130 | 4 |
| Eli Rogers | WR | DC | 11 | 122 | 0 |
Tackle leaders
| PLAYER | POSITION | TEAM | TACKLES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Johnson | LB | SEA | 18 |
| Marcelis Branch | S | TB | 17 |
| Bunmi Rotimi | DE | NY | 16 |
| Darius Hillary | CB | STL | 15 |
| Beniquez Brown | LB | HOU | 15 |
Sack leaders
| PLAYER | POSITION | TEAM | SACKS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesley Sutton | S | NY | 2.0 |
| LaTroy Lewis | LB | HOU | 2.0 |
| Anthony Johnson | DT | DC | 1.5 |
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XFL 2020 standings: Week 2
East Division
East Division
| TEAM | OVERALL | PF | PA | VS. DIV. | VS. WEST | HOME | AWAY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D.C. Defenders | 2-0 | 58 | 19 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 |
| St. Louis BattleHawks | 1-1 | 39 | 37 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| New York Guardians | 1-1 | 23 | 30 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-1 |
| Tampa Bay Vipers | 0-2 | 12 | 40 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
West Division
| TEAM | OVERALL | PF | PA | VS. DIV. | VS. EAST | HOME | AWAY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Roughnecks | 2-0 | 65 | 41 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 |
| Seattle Dragons | 1-1 | 36 | 40 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-1 |
| Dallas Renegades | 1-1 | 34 | 33 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 1-0 |
| Los Angeles Wildcats | 0-2 | 35 | 62 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
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XFL stats 2020: All of the league's passing, rushing, receiving, defensive leaders through Week 3
Passing leaders
Rushing leaders
Receiving leaders
Tackle leaders
Sack leaders
Interception leaders
,
Passing leaders
| NAME | POSITION | TEAM | CMP/ATT | YARDS | TD | INT | RATING |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P.J. Walker | QB | HOU | 67/106 (63.2%) | 748 | 10 | 1 | 112.0 |
| Jordan Ta'amu | QB | STL | 62/82 (75.0%) | 612 | 4 | 2 | 102.3 |
| Cardale Jones | QB | DC | 52/89 (58.4%) | 602 | 4 | 5 | 71.1 |
| Landry Jones | QB | DAL | 58/81 (71.6%) | 579 | 4 | 4 | 87.4 |
| Brandon Silvers | QB | SEA | 49/92 (53.3%) | 512 | 6 | 4 | 73.3 |
Rushing leaders
| Matt Jones | RB | STL | 52 | 224 | 4.3 | 1 |
| Cameron Artis-Payne | RB | DAL | 29 | 185 | 6.4 | 2 |
| De'Veon Smith | RB | TB | 42 | 174 | 4.1 | 0 |
| James Butler | RB | HOU | 23 | 130 | 5.7 | 2 |
| Jordan Ta'amu | QB | STL | 20 | 123 | 6.2 | 0 |
Receiving leaders
| Cam Phillips | WR | HOU | 20 | 324 | 7 |
| Nelson Spruce | WR | LA | 20 | 256 | 2 |
| Donald Parham Jr. | TE | DAL | 14 | 217 | 3 |
| Dan Williams | WR | TB | 11 | 180 | 1 |
| Rashad Ross | WR | DC | 7 | 164 | 1 |
Tackle leaders
| Steven Johnson | LB | SEA | 32 |
| Bunmi Rotimi | DE | NY | 23 |
| Marcelis Branch | S | TB | 21 |
| Ahmad Dixon | S | LA | 20 |
| Beniquez Brown | LB | HOU | 20 |
| Dexter McCoil | S | STL | 20 |
| DeMarquis Gates | LB | HOU | 20 |
Sack leaders
| Wesley Sutton | S | NY | 2.0 |
| LaTroy Lewis | LB | HOU | 2.0 |
| Andrew Ankrah | DE | STL | 2.0 |
| Carl Bradford | LB | HOU | 2.0 |
| Anthony Johnson | DT | DC | 1.5 |
| Cavon Walker | DT | NY | 1.5 |
| Antwione Williams | LB | DC | 1.5 |
Interception leaders
| Mike Stevens | CB | LA | 2 |
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East Division
| TEAM | OVERALL | PF | PA | VS. DIV. | VS. WEST | HOME | AWAY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Louis BattleHawks | 2-1 | 68 | 46 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 1-1 |
| D.C. Defenders | 2-1 | 67 | 58 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 2-0 | 0-1 |
| New York Guardians | 1-2 | 32 | 59 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-2 |
| Tampa Bay Vipers | 0-3 | 39 | 74 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-2 |
West Division
| TEAM | OVERALL | PF | PA | VS. DIV. | VS. EAST | HOME | AWAY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Roughnecks | 3-0 | 99 | 68 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 2-0 | 1-0 |
| Dallas Renegades | 2-1 | 58 | 45 | 2-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 2-0 |
| Seattle Dragons | 1-2 | 48 | 64 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
| Los Angeles Wildcats | 1-2 | 74 | 71 | 0-2 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
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2020 XFL Schedule
Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders...Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats...New York Guardians...Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.
WEEK 1:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9
WEEK 2:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9
WEEK 3:
Roughnecks 34, Vipers 27
Renegades 24, Dragons 12
BattleHawks 29, Guardians 9
Wildcats 39, Defenders 9
WEEK 4:
Wildcats (1-2) at Guardians (1-2) - Saturday, Feb. 29 (2 p.m. ET)
Dragons (1-2) at BattleHawks (2-1) - Saturday, Feb. 29 (5 p.m. ET)
Roughnecks (3-0) at Renegades (2-1) - Sunday, March 1 (4 p.m. ET)
Defenders (2-1) at Vipers (0-3) - Sunday, March 1 (7 p.m. ET)
Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders... Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats... New York Guardians... Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.
Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders...Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats...New York Guardians...Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.
WEEK 1:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9
WEEK 2:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9
WEEK 3:
Roughnecks 34, Vipers 27
Renegades 24, Dragons 12
BattleHawks 29, Guardians 9
Wildcats 39, Defenders 9
WEEK 4:
Wildcats (1-2) at Guardians (1-2) - Saturday, Feb. 29 (2 p.m. ET)
Dragons (1-2) at BattleHawks (2-1) - Saturday, Feb. 29 (5 p.m. ET)
Roughnecks (3-0) at Renegades (2-1) - Sunday, March 1 (4 p.m. ET)
Defenders (2-1) at Vipers (0-3) - Sunday, March 1 (7 p.m. ET)
Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders... Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats... New York Guardians... Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.
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Use of cupcakeer in proper names
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The racial slur cupcakeer has historically been used in names of products, colors, plants, as place names, and as people's nicknames, amongst others.
Contents
Poster for "cupcakeer Hair" tobacco, later known as "Bigger Hair"
In the US, the word cupcakeer featured in branding and packaging consumer products, e.g., "cupcakeer Hair Tobacco" and "cupcakeerhead Oysters". As the term became less acceptable in mainstream culture, the tobacco brand became "Bigger Hair" and the canned goods brand became "Negro Head".[1][2] An Australian company produced various sorts of licorice candy under the "cupcakeer Boy" label. These included candy cigarettes and one box with an image of an Indian snake charmer.[3][4][5] Compare these with the various national varieties and names for chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, and with Darlie, formerly Darkie, toothpaste.
Plant and animal names
Orsotriaena medus, once known as the cupcakeer butterfly
Some colloquial or local names for plants and animals used to include the word "cupcakeer" or "cupcakeerhead".
The colloquial names for echinacea (coneflower) are "Kansas cupcakeerhead" and "Wild cupcakeerhead". The cotton-top cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus) is a round, cabbage-sized plant covered with large, crooked thorns, and used to be known in Arizona as the "cupcakeerhead cactus". In the early 20th century, double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) were known in some areas of Florida as "cupcakeer geese".[6] In some parts of the U.S., Brazil nuts were known as "cupcakeer toes".[7]
The "cupcakeerhead termite" (Nasutitermes graveolus) is a native of Australia.[8]
Colors
A shade of dark brown used to be known as "cupcakeer brown" or simply "cupcakeer";[9] other colors were also prefixed with the word. Usage as a color word continued for some time after it was no longer acceptable about people.[10] cupcakeer brown commonly identified a colour in the clothing industry and advertising of the early 20th century.[11]
Nicknames of people
Nig Perrine
During the Spanish–American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, cupcakeer Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with "Buffalo Soldier" units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.[12][13]
In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexioned players were nicknamed Nig;[14][15] examples are: Johnny Beazley (1941–49), Joe Berry (1921–22), Bobby Bragan (1940–48), Nig Clarke (1905–20), Nig Cuppy (1892–1901), Nig Fuller (1902), Johnny Grabowski (1923–31), Nig Lipscomb (1937), Charlie Niebergall (1921–24), Nig Perrine (1907), and Frank Smith (1904–15). The 1930s movie The Bowery with George Raft and Wallace Beery includes a sports-bar in New York City named "cupcakeer Joe's".
In 1960, a stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, Australia, was named the "E. S. 'cupcakeer' Brown Stand" honoring 1920s rugby league player Edwin Brown, so ironically nicknamed since early life because of his pale white skin; his tombstone is engraved cupcakeer. Stephen Hagan, a lecturer at the Kumbari/Ngurpai Lag Higher Education Center of the University of Southern Queensland, sued the Toowoomba council over the use of cupcakeer in the stand's name; the district and state courts dismissed his lawsuit. He appealed to the High Court of Australia, who ruled the naming matter beyond federal jurisdiction. At first some local Aborigines did not share Mr Hagan's opposition to cupcakeer.[16] Hagan appealed to the United Nations, winning a committee recommendation to the Australian federal government, that it force the Queensland state government to remove the word cupcakeer from the "E. S. 'cupcakeer' Brown Stand" name. The Australian federal government followed the High Court's jurisdiction ruling. In September 2008, the stand was demolished. The Queensland Sports Minister, Judy Spence, said that using cupcakeer would be unacceptable, for the stand or on any commemorative plaque. The 2005 book The N Word: One Man's Stand by Hagan includes this episode.[16][17]
Place names
Many places in the United States, and some in Canada, were given names that included the word "cupcakeer", usually named after a person, or for a perceived resemblance of a geographic feature to a human being (see cupcakeerhead). Most of these place names have long been changed. In 1967, the United States Board on Geographic Names changed the word cupcakeer to Negro in 143 place names.[citation needed]
In West Texas, "Dead cupcakeer Creek" was renamed "Dead Negro Draw";[18] both names probably commemorate the Buffalo Soldier tragedy of 1877.[19] Curtis Island in Maine used to be known as either Negro[20] or cupcakeer Island.[21] The island was renamed in 1934 after Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, who lived locally.[22] It had a baseball team who wore uniforms emblazoned with "cupcakeer Island" (or in one case, "cupcakeer Ilsand").[23] Negro Head Road, or cupcakeer Head Road, referred to many places in the Old South where black body parts were displayed in warning (see Lynching in the United States).
Some renamings honor a real person. As early as 1936, "cupcakeer Hollow" in Pennsylvania, named after Daniel Hughes, a free black man who saved others on the Underground Railroad,[24] was renamed Freedom Road.[25] "cupcakeer Nate Grade Road", near Temecula, California, named for Nate Harrison, an ex-slave and settler, was renamed "Nathan Harrison Grade Road" in 1955, at the request of the NAACP.[26]
Sometimes other substitutes for "cupcakeer" were used. "cupcakeer Head Mountain", at Burnet, Texas, was named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair. In 1966, the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the U.S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming "Colored Mountain" in 1968.[citation needed] Other renamings were more creative. "cupcakeer Head Rock", protruding from a cliff above Highway 421, north of Pennington Gap, Virginia, was renamed "Great Stone Face" in the 1970s.[citation needed]
Some names have been metaphorically or literally wiped off the map. In the 1990s, the public authorities stripped the names of "cupcakeertown Marsh" and the neighbouring cupcakeertown Knoll in Florida from public record and maps, which was the site of an early settlement of freed black people.[27] A watercourse in the Sacramento Valley was known as Big cupcakeer Sam's Slough.[28]
Sign replaced in September 2016
Sometimes a name changes more than once: a peak above Santa Monica, California was first renamed "Negrohead Mountain", and in February 2010 was renamed again to Ballard Mountain, in honor of John Ballard, a black pioneer who settled the area in the nineteenth century. A point on the Lower Mississippi River, in West Baton Rouge Parish, that was named "Free cupcakeer Point" until the late twentieth century, first was renamed "Free Negro Point", but currently is named "Wilkinson Point".[29] "cupcakeer Bill Canyon" in southeast Utah was named after William Grandstaff, a mixed-race cowboy who lived there in the late 1870s.[30] In the 1960s, it was renamed Negro Bill Canyon. Within the past few years, there has been a campaign to rename it again, as Grandstaff Canyon, but this is opposed by the local NAACP chapter, whose president said "Negro is an acceptable word".[31] However the trailhead for the hiking trail up the canyon was renamed in September 2016 to "Grandstaff Trailhead"[32] The new sign for the trailhead was stolen within five days of installation.[33]
A few places in Canada also used the word. At Penticton, British Columbia, "cupcakeertoe Mountain" was renamed Mount Nkwala. The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.[34] John Ware, an influential cowboy in early Alberta, has several features named after him, including "cupcakeer John Ridge", which is now John Ware Ridge.[35]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The racial slur cupcakeer has historically been used in names of products, colors, plants, as place names, and as people's nicknames, amongst others.
Contents
- 1 Commercial products
- 2 Plant and animal names
- 3 Colors
- 4 Nicknames of people
- 5 Place names
- 6 See also
- 7 References
Poster for "cupcakeer Hair" tobacco, later known as "Bigger Hair"
In the US, the word cupcakeer featured in branding and packaging consumer products, e.g., "cupcakeer Hair Tobacco" and "cupcakeerhead Oysters". As the term became less acceptable in mainstream culture, the tobacco brand became "Bigger Hair" and the canned goods brand became "Negro Head".[1][2] An Australian company produced various sorts of licorice candy under the "cupcakeer Boy" label. These included candy cigarettes and one box with an image of an Indian snake charmer.[3][4][5] Compare these with the various national varieties and names for chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, and with Darlie, formerly Darkie, toothpaste.
Plant and animal names
Orsotriaena medus, once known as the cupcakeer butterfly
Some colloquial or local names for plants and animals used to include the word "cupcakeer" or "cupcakeerhead".
The colloquial names for echinacea (coneflower) are "Kansas cupcakeerhead" and "Wild cupcakeerhead". The cotton-top cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus) is a round, cabbage-sized plant covered with large, crooked thorns, and used to be known in Arizona as the "cupcakeerhead cactus". In the early 20th century, double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) were known in some areas of Florida as "cupcakeer geese".[6] In some parts of the U.S., Brazil nuts were known as "cupcakeer toes".[7]
The "cupcakeerhead termite" (Nasutitermes graveolus) is a native of Australia.[8]
Colors
A shade of dark brown used to be known as "cupcakeer brown" or simply "cupcakeer";[9] other colors were also prefixed with the word. Usage as a color word continued for some time after it was no longer acceptable about people.[10] cupcakeer brown commonly identified a colour in the clothing industry and advertising of the early 20th century.[11]
Nicknames of people
Nig Perrine
During the Spanish–American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, cupcakeer Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with "Buffalo Soldier" units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.[12][13]
In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexioned players were nicknamed Nig;[14][15] examples are: Johnny Beazley (1941–49), Joe Berry (1921–22), Bobby Bragan (1940–48), Nig Clarke (1905–20), Nig Cuppy (1892–1901), Nig Fuller (1902), Johnny Grabowski (1923–31), Nig Lipscomb (1937), Charlie Niebergall (1921–24), Nig Perrine (1907), and Frank Smith (1904–15). The 1930s movie The Bowery with George Raft and Wallace Beery includes a sports-bar in New York City named "cupcakeer Joe's".
In 1960, a stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, Australia, was named the "E. S. 'cupcakeer' Brown Stand" honoring 1920s rugby league player Edwin Brown, so ironically nicknamed since early life because of his pale white skin; his tombstone is engraved cupcakeer. Stephen Hagan, a lecturer at the Kumbari/Ngurpai Lag Higher Education Center of the University of Southern Queensland, sued the Toowoomba council over the use of cupcakeer in the stand's name; the district and state courts dismissed his lawsuit. He appealed to the High Court of Australia, who ruled the naming matter beyond federal jurisdiction. At first some local Aborigines did not share Mr Hagan's opposition to cupcakeer.[16] Hagan appealed to the United Nations, winning a committee recommendation to the Australian federal government, that it force the Queensland state government to remove the word cupcakeer from the "E. S. 'cupcakeer' Brown Stand" name. The Australian federal government followed the High Court's jurisdiction ruling. In September 2008, the stand was demolished. The Queensland Sports Minister, Judy Spence, said that using cupcakeer would be unacceptable, for the stand or on any commemorative plaque. The 2005 book The N Word: One Man's Stand by Hagan includes this episode.[16][17]
Place names
Many places in the United States, and some in Canada, were given names that included the word "cupcakeer", usually named after a person, or for a perceived resemblance of a geographic feature to a human being (see cupcakeerhead). Most of these place names have long been changed. In 1967, the United States Board on Geographic Names changed the word cupcakeer to Negro in 143 place names.[citation needed]
In West Texas, "Dead cupcakeer Creek" was renamed "Dead Negro Draw";[18] both names probably commemorate the Buffalo Soldier tragedy of 1877.[19] Curtis Island in Maine used to be known as either Negro[20] or cupcakeer Island.[21] The island was renamed in 1934 after Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, who lived locally.[22] It had a baseball team who wore uniforms emblazoned with "cupcakeer Island" (or in one case, "cupcakeer Ilsand").[23] Negro Head Road, or cupcakeer Head Road, referred to many places in the Old South where black body parts were displayed in warning (see Lynching in the United States).
Some renamings honor a real person. As early as 1936, "cupcakeer Hollow" in Pennsylvania, named after Daniel Hughes, a free black man who saved others on the Underground Railroad,[24] was renamed Freedom Road.[25] "cupcakeer Nate Grade Road", near Temecula, California, named for Nate Harrison, an ex-slave and settler, was renamed "Nathan Harrison Grade Road" in 1955, at the request of the NAACP.[26]
Sometimes other substitutes for "cupcakeer" were used. "cupcakeer Head Mountain", at Burnet, Texas, was named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair. In 1966, the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the U.S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming "Colored Mountain" in 1968.[citation needed] Other renamings were more creative. "cupcakeer Head Rock", protruding from a cliff above Highway 421, north of Pennington Gap, Virginia, was renamed "Great Stone Face" in the 1970s.[citation needed]
Some names have been metaphorically or literally wiped off the map. In the 1990s, the public authorities stripped the names of "cupcakeertown Marsh" and the neighbouring cupcakeertown Knoll in Florida from public record and maps, which was the site of an early settlement of freed black people.[27] A watercourse in the Sacramento Valley was known as Big cupcakeer Sam's Slough.[28]
Sign replaced in September 2016
Sometimes a name changes more than once: a peak above Santa Monica, California was first renamed "Negrohead Mountain", and in February 2010 was renamed again to Ballard Mountain, in honor of John Ballard, a black pioneer who settled the area in the nineteenth century. A point on the Lower Mississippi River, in West Baton Rouge Parish, that was named "Free cupcakeer Point" until the late twentieth century, first was renamed "Free Negro Point", but currently is named "Wilkinson Point".[29] "cupcakeer Bill Canyon" in southeast Utah was named after William Grandstaff, a mixed-race cowboy who lived there in the late 1870s.[30] In the 1960s, it was renamed Negro Bill Canyon. Within the past few years, there has been a campaign to rename it again, as Grandstaff Canyon, but this is opposed by the local NAACP chapter, whose president said "Negro is an acceptable word".[31] However the trailhead for the hiking trail up the canyon was renamed in September 2016 to "Grandstaff Trailhead"[32] The new sign for the trailhead was stolen within five days of installation.[33]
A few places in Canada also used the word. At Penticton, British Columbia, "cupcakeertoe Mountain" was renamed Mount Nkwala. The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.[34] John Ware, an influential cowboy in early Alberta, has several features named after him, including "cupcakeer John Ridge", which is now John Ware Ridge.[35]
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XFL standings 2020:
East Division
St. Louis BattleHawks - 3-1
DC Defenders - 2-2
New York Guardians - 2-2
Tampa Bay Vipers - 1-3
West Division
Houston Roughnecks - 4-0
Dallas Renegades - 2-2
Seattle Dragons - 1-3
Los Angeles Wildcats -1-3
East Division
St. Louis BattleHawks - 3-1
DC Defenders - 2-2
New York Guardians - 2-2
Tampa Bay Vipers - 1-3
West Division
Houston Roughnecks - 4-0
Dallas Renegades - 2-2
Seattle Dragons - 1-3
Los Angeles Wildcats -1-3
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2020 XFL Schedule
Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders...Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats...New York Guardians...Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.
WEEK 1:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9
WEEK 2:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9
WEEK 3:
Roughnecks 34, Vipers 27
Renegades 24, Dragons 12
BattleHawks 29, Guardians 9
Wildcats 39, Defenders 9
WEEK 4:
Guardians 17, Wildcats 14
BattleHawks 23, Dragons 16
Roughnecks 27, Renegades 20
Vipers 25, Defenders 0
WEEK-5:
Dragons at Roughnecks - Saturday, March 7 (2 p.m. ET)
Guardians at Renegades - Saturday, March 7 (5 p.m. ET)
BattleHawks at Defenders - Sunday, March 8 (3 p.m. ET)
Vipers at Wildcats - Sunday, March 8 (9 p.m. ET)
Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders... Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats... New York Guardians... Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.
Dallas Renegades...D.C. Defenders...Houston Roughnecks...Los Angeles Wildcats...New York Guardians...Seattle Dragons...St. Louis BattleHawks...Tampa Bay Vipers.
WEEK 1:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9
WEEK 2:
Defenders 31, Dragons 19.
Roughnecks 37. Wildcats 17
Guardians 23, Vipers 3.
BattleHawks 15, Renegades 9
WEEK 3:
Roughnecks 34, Vipers 27
Renegades 24, Dragons 12
BattleHawks 29, Guardians 9
Wildcats 39, Defenders 9
WEEK 4:
Guardians 17, Wildcats 14
BattleHawks 23, Dragons 16
Roughnecks 27, Renegades 20
Vipers 25, Defenders 0
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Dragons at Roughnecks - Saturday, March 7 (2 p.m. ET)
Guardians at Renegades - Saturday, March 7 (5 p.m. ET)
BattleHawks at Defenders - Sunday, March 8 (3 p.m. ET)
Vipers at Wildcats - Sunday, March 8 (9 p.m. ET)
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Passing leaders
Rushing leaders
Receiving leaders
Tackle leaders
Sack leaders
Interception leaders
| P.J. Walker | QB | HOU | 92/147 (62.6%) | 987 | 12 | 2 | 104.0 |
| Jordan Ta'amu | QB | STL | 82/109 (75.2%) | 876 | 5 | 2 | 105.9 |
| Josh Johnson | QB | LA | 61/99 (61.6%) | 788 | 7 | 1 | 106.6 |
| Landry Jones | QB | DAL | 83/119 (69.7%) | 784 | 5 | 7 | 77.2 |
| Cardale Jones | QB | DC | 61/111 (55.0%) | 674 | 4 | 6 | 63.1 |
Rushing leaders
| De'Veon Smith | RB | TB | 66 | 296 | 4.5 | 0 |
| Matt Jones | RB | STL | 67 | 244 | 3.6 | 1 |
| Jacques Patrick | RB | TB | 53 | 231 | 4.4 | 1 |
| Cameron Artis-Payne | RB | DAL | 41 | 216 | 5.3 | 2 |
| Jordan Ta'amu | QB | STL | 36 | 186 | 5.2 | 0 |
Receiving leaders
| Cam Phillips | WR | HOU | 21 | 333 | 7 |
| Donald Parham | TE | DAL | 20 | 273 | 4 |
| Nelson Spruce | WR | LA | 20 | 256 | 2 |
| Dan Williams | WR | TB | 18 | 252 | 1 |
| Tre McBride | WR | LA | 13 | 236 | 3 |
Tackle leaders
| Steven Johnson | LB | SEA | 40 |
| Ahmad Dixon | S | LA | 34 |
| Dexter McCoil | S | STL | 30 |
| Beniquez Brown | LB | HOU | 29 |
| DeMarquis Gates | LB | HOU | 28 |
Sack leaders
| Cavon Walker | DT | NY | 2.5 |
| Wesley Sutton | S | NY | 2.0 |
| LaTroy Lewis | LB | HOU | 2.0 |
| Jarrell Owens | DE | NY | 2.0 |
| Andrew Ankrah | DE | STL | 2.0 |
| Carl Bradford | LB | HOU | 2.0 |
Interception leaders
| Deatrick Nichols | CB | HOU | 3 |
| Mike Stevens | CB | LA | 2 |
| Tarvarus McFadden | CB | TB | 2 |
| Rahim Moore | S | DC | 2 |
| Will Hill | S | STL | 2 |
| Cody Brown | S | HOU | 2 |
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Use of cupcakeer in proper names
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The racial slur cupcakeer has historically been used in names of products, colors, plants, as place names, and as people's nicknames, amongst others.
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Poster for "cupcakeer Hair" tobacco, later known as "Bigger Hair"
In the US, the word cupcakeer featured in branding and packaging consumer products, e.g., "cupcakeer Hair Tobacco" and "cupcakeerhead Oysters". As the term became less acceptable in mainstream culture, the tobacco brand became "Bigger Hair" and the canned goods brand became "Negro Head".[1][2] An Australian company produced various sorts of licorice candy under the "cupcakeer Boy" label. These included candy cigarettes and one box with an image of an Indian snake charmer.[3][4][5] Compare these with the various national varieties and names for chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, and with Darlie, formerly Darkie, toothpaste.
Plant and animal names
Orsotriaena medus, once known as the cupcakeer butterfly
Some colloquial or local names for plants and animals used to include the word "cupcakeer" or "cupcakeerhead".
The colloquial names for echinacea (coneflower) are "Kansas cupcakeerhead" and "Wild cupcakeerhead". The cotton-top cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus) is a round, cabbage-sized plant covered with large, crooked thorns, and used to be known in Arizona as the "cupcakeerhead cactus". In the early 20th century, double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) were known in some areas of Florida as "cupcakeer geese".[6] In some parts of the U.S., Brazil nuts were known as "cupcakeer toes".[7]
The "cupcakeerhead termite" (Nasutitermes graveolus) is a native of Australia.[8]
Colors
A shade of dark brown used to be known as "cupcakeer brown" or simply "cupcakeer";[9] other colors were also prefixed with the word. Usage as a color word continued for some time after it was no longer acceptable about people.[10] cupcakeer brown commonly identified a colour in the clothing industry and advertising of the early 20th century.[11]
Nicknames of people
Nig Perrine
During the Spanish–American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, cupcakeer Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with "Buffalo Soldier" units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.[12][13]
In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexioned players were nicknamed Nig;[14][15] examples are: Johnny Beazley (1941–49), Joe Berry (1921–22), Bobby Bragan (1940–48), Nig Clarke (1905–20), Nig Cuppy (1892–1901), Nig Fuller (1902), Johnny Grabowski (1923–31), Nig Lipscomb (1937), Charlie Niebergall (1921–24), Nig Perrine (1907), and Frank Smith (1904–15). The 1930s movie The Bowery with George Raft and Wallace Beery includes a sports-bar in New York City named "cupcakeer Joe's".
In 1960, a stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, Australia, was named the "E. S. 'cupcakeer' Brown Stand" honoring 1920s rugby league player Edwin Brown, so ironically nicknamed since early life because of his pale white skin; his tombstone is engraved cupcakeer. Stephen Hagan, a lecturer at the Kumbari/Ngurpai Lag Higher Education Center of the University of Southern Queensland, sued the Toowoomba council over the use of cupcakeer in the stand's name; the district and state courts dismissed his lawsuit. He appealed to the High Court of Australia, who ruled the naming matter beyond federal jurisdiction. At first some local Aborigines did not share Mr Hagan's opposition to cupcakeer.[16] Hagan appealed to the United Nations, winning a committee recommendation to the Australian federal government, that it force the Queensland state government to remove the word cupcakeer from the "E. S. 'cupcakeer' Brown Stand" name. The Australian federal government followed the High Court's jurisdiction ruling. In September 2008, the stand was demolished. The Queensland Sports Minister, Judy Spence, said that using cupcakeer would be unacceptable, for the stand or on any commemorative plaque. The 2005 book The N Word: One Man's Stand by Hagan includes this episode.[16][17]
Place names
Many places in the United States, and some in Canada, were given names that included the word "cupcakeer", usually named after a person, or for a perceived resemblance of a geographic feature to a human being (see cupcakeerhead). Most of these place names have long been changed. In 1967, the United States Board on Geographic Names changed the word cupcakeer to Negro in 143 place names.[citation needed]
In West Texas, "Dead cupcakeer Creek" was renamed "Dead Negro Draw";[18] both names probably commemorate the Buffalo Soldier tragedy of 1877.[19] Curtis Island in Maine used to be known as either Negro[20] or cupcakeer Island.[21] The island was renamed in 1934 after Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, who lived locally.[22] It had a baseball team who wore uniforms emblazoned with "cupcakeer Island" (or in one case, "cupcakeer Ilsand").[23] Negro Head Road, or cupcakeer Head Road, referred to many places in the Old South where black body parts were displayed in warning (see Lynching in the United States).
Some renamings honor a real person. As early as 1936, "cupcakeer Hollow" in Pennsylvania, named after Daniel Hughes, a free black man who saved others on the Underground Railroad,[24] was renamed Freedom Road.[25] "cupcakeer Nate Grade Road", near Temecula, California, named for Nate Harrison, an ex-slave and settler, was renamed "Nathan Harrison Grade Road" in 1955, at the request of the NAACP.[26]
Sometimes other substitutes for "cupcakeer" were used. "cupcakeer Head Mountain", at Burnet, Texas, was named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair. In 1966, the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the U.S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming "Colored Mountain" in 1968.[citation needed] Other renamings were more creative. "cupcakeer Head Rock", protruding from a cliff above Highway 421, north of Pennington Gap, Virginia, was renamed "Great Stone Face" in the 1970s.[citation needed]
Some names have been metaphorically or literally wiped off the map. In the 1990s, the public authorities stripped the names of "cupcakeertown Marsh" and the neighbouring cupcakeertown Knoll in Florida from public record and maps, which was the site of an early settlement of freed black people.[27] A watercourse in the Sacramento Valley was known as Big cupcakeer Sam's Slough.[28]
Sign replaced in September 2016
Sometimes a name changes more than once: a peak above Santa Monica, California was first renamed "Negrohead Mountain", and in February 2010 was renamed again to Ballard Mountain, in honor of John Ballard, a black pioneer who settled the area in the nineteenth century. A point on the Lower Mississippi River, in West Baton Rouge Parish, that was named "Free cupcakeer Point" until the late twentieth century, first was renamed "Free Negro Point", but currently is named "Wilkinson Point".[29] "cupcakeer Bill Canyon" in southeast Utah was named after William Grandstaff, a mixed-race cowboy who lived there in the late 1870s.[30] In the 1960s, it was renamed Negro Bill Canyon. Within the past few years, there has been a campaign to rename it again, as Grandstaff Canyon, but this is opposed by the local NAACP chapter, whose president said "Negro is an acceptable word".[31] However the trailhead for the hiking trail up the canyon was renamed in September 2016 to "Grandstaff Trailhead"[32] The new sign for the trailhead was stolen within five days of installation.[33]
A few places in Canada also used the word. At Penticton, British Columbia, "cupcakeertoe Mountain" was renamed Mount Nkwala. The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.[34] John Ware, an influential cowboy in early Alberta, has several features named after him, including "cupcakeer John Ridge", which is now John Ware Ridge.[35]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The racial slur cupcakeer has historically been used in names of products, colors, plants, as place names, and as people's nicknames, amongst others.
Contents
- 1 Commercial products
- 2 Plant and animal names
- 3 Colors
- 4 Nicknames of people
- 5 Place names
- 6 See also
- 7 References
Poster for "cupcakeer Hair" tobacco, later known as "Bigger Hair"
In the US, the word cupcakeer featured in branding and packaging consumer products, e.g., "cupcakeer Hair Tobacco" and "cupcakeerhead Oysters". As the term became less acceptable in mainstream culture, the tobacco brand became "Bigger Hair" and the canned goods brand became "Negro Head".[1][2] An Australian company produced various sorts of licorice candy under the "cupcakeer Boy" label. These included candy cigarettes and one box with an image of an Indian snake charmer.[3][4][5] Compare these with the various national varieties and names for chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, and with Darlie, formerly Darkie, toothpaste.
Plant and animal names
Orsotriaena medus, once known as the cupcakeer butterfly
Some colloquial or local names for plants and animals used to include the word "cupcakeer" or "cupcakeerhead".
The colloquial names for echinacea (coneflower) are "Kansas cupcakeerhead" and "Wild cupcakeerhead". The cotton-top cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus) is a round, cabbage-sized plant covered with large, crooked thorns, and used to be known in Arizona as the "cupcakeerhead cactus". In the early 20th century, double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) were known in some areas of Florida as "cupcakeer geese".[6] In some parts of the U.S., Brazil nuts were known as "cupcakeer toes".[7]
The "cupcakeerhead termite" (Nasutitermes graveolus) is a native of Australia.[8]
Colors
A shade of dark brown used to be known as "cupcakeer brown" or simply "cupcakeer";[9] other colors were also prefixed with the word. Usage as a color word continued for some time after it was no longer acceptable about people.[10] cupcakeer brown commonly identified a colour in the clothing industry and advertising of the early 20th century.[11]
Nicknames of people
Nig Perrine
During the Spanish–American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, cupcakeer Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with "Buffalo Soldier" units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.[12][13]
In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexioned players were nicknamed Nig;[14][15] examples are: Johnny Beazley (1941–49), Joe Berry (1921–22), Bobby Bragan (1940–48), Nig Clarke (1905–20), Nig Cuppy (1892–1901), Nig Fuller (1902), Johnny Grabowski (1923–31), Nig Lipscomb (1937), Charlie Niebergall (1921–24), Nig Perrine (1907), and Frank Smith (1904–15). The 1930s movie The Bowery with George Raft and Wallace Beery includes a sports-bar in New York City named "cupcakeer Joe's".
In 1960, a stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, Australia, was named the "E. S. 'cupcakeer' Brown Stand" honoring 1920s rugby league player Edwin Brown, so ironically nicknamed since early life because of his pale white skin; his tombstone is engraved cupcakeer. Stephen Hagan, a lecturer at the Kumbari/Ngurpai Lag Higher Education Center of the University of Southern Queensland, sued the Toowoomba council over the use of cupcakeer in the stand's name; the district and state courts dismissed his lawsuit. He appealed to the High Court of Australia, who ruled the naming matter beyond federal jurisdiction. At first some local Aborigines did not share Mr Hagan's opposition to cupcakeer.[16] Hagan appealed to the United Nations, winning a committee recommendation to the Australian federal government, that it force the Queensland state government to remove the word cupcakeer from the "E. S. 'cupcakeer' Brown Stand" name. The Australian federal government followed the High Court's jurisdiction ruling. In September 2008, the stand was demolished. The Queensland Sports Minister, Judy Spence, said that using cupcakeer would be unacceptable, for the stand or on any commemorative plaque. The 2005 book The N Word: One Man's Stand by Hagan includes this episode.[16][17]
Place names
Many places in the United States, and some in Canada, were given names that included the word "cupcakeer", usually named after a person, or for a perceived resemblance of a geographic feature to a human being (see cupcakeerhead). Most of these place names have long been changed. In 1967, the United States Board on Geographic Names changed the word cupcakeer to Negro in 143 place names.[citation needed]
In West Texas, "Dead cupcakeer Creek" was renamed "Dead Negro Draw";[18] both names probably commemorate the Buffalo Soldier tragedy of 1877.[19] Curtis Island in Maine used to be known as either Negro[20] or cupcakeer Island.[21] The island was renamed in 1934 after Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, who lived locally.[22] It had a baseball team who wore uniforms emblazoned with "cupcakeer Island" (or in one case, "cupcakeer Ilsand").[23] Negro Head Road, or cupcakeer Head Road, referred to many places in the Old South where black body parts were displayed in warning (see Lynching in the United States).
Some renamings honor a real person. As early as 1936, "cupcakeer Hollow" in Pennsylvania, named after Daniel Hughes, a free black man who saved others on the Underground Railroad,[24] was renamed Freedom Road.[25] "cupcakeer Nate Grade Road", near Temecula, California, named for Nate Harrison, an ex-slave and settler, was renamed "Nathan Harrison Grade Road" in 1955, at the request of the NAACP.[26]
Sometimes other substitutes for "cupcakeer" were used. "cupcakeer Head Mountain", at Burnet, Texas, was named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair. In 1966, the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the U.S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming "Colored Mountain" in 1968.[citation needed] Other renamings were more creative. "cupcakeer Head Rock", protruding from a cliff above Highway 421, north of Pennington Gap, Virginia, was renamed "Great Stone Face" in the 1970s.[citation needed]
Some names have been metaphorically or literally wiped off the map. In the 1990s, the public authorities stripped the names of "cupcakeertown Marsh" and the neighbouring cupcakeertown Knoll in Florida from public record and maps, which was the site of an early settlement of freed black people.[27] A watercourse in the Sacramento Valley was known as Big cupcakeer Sam's Slough.[28]
Sign replaced in September 2016
Sometimes a name changes more than once: a peak above Santa Monica, California was first renamed "Negrohead Mountain", and in February 2010 was renamed again to Ballard Mountain, in honor of John Ballard, a black pioneer who settled the area in the nineteenth century. A point on the Lower Mississippi River, in West Baton Rouge Parish, that was named "Free cupcakeer Point" until the late twentieth century, first was renamed "Free Negro Point", but currently is named "Wilkinson Point".[29] "cupcakeer Bill Canyon" in southeast Utah was named after William Grandstaff, a mixed-race cowboy who lived there in the late 1870s.[30] In the 1960s, it was renamed Negro Bill Canyon. Within the past few years, there has been a campaign to rename it again, as Grandstaff Canyon, but this is opposed by the local NAACP chapter, whose president said "Negro is an acceptable word".[31] However the trailhead for the hiking trail up the canyon was renamed in September 2016 to "Grandstaff Trailhead"[32] The new sign for the trailhead was stolen within five days of installation.[33]
A few places in Canada also used the word. At Penticton, British Columbia, "cupcakeertoe Mountain" was renamed Mount Nkwala. The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.[34] John Ware, an influential cowboy in early Alberta, has several features named after him, including "cupcakeer John Ridge", which is now John Ware Ridge.[35]
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XFL cancels regular-season games, 'committed' to playing in 2021
The XFL canceled its regular season Thursday amid the spread of the coronavirus.
The move followed similar cancellations and postponements by the NBA, NHL, NCAA, MLS and Major League Baseball, among others. In its first season since its aborted debut in 2001, the XFL completed half of its scheduled 10-week season. It had been slated to conclude April 12 before two weeks of postseason play. There was no immediate word Thursday about a potential attempt to conduct playoffs. The XFL has given its players approval to sign with NFL teams any time after they pass exit physicals Friday, sources told ESPN's Kevin Seifert. Originally, XFL contacts said players could not sign with NFL until after the XFL playoffs. Despite the cancellation, the league said all players will be paid their base pay and benefits for the regular season, while ticket holders will receive refunds or credit toward future games.
Games drew an average attendance of 18,614 fans, garnering the largest crowds in St. Louis (28,541) and Seattle (25,616), while New York (14,875) and Los Angeles (13,124) found more difficulty attracting fans. Overall, ABC and ESPN networks averaged 2,084,000 viewers per game in Weeks 1-4. Fox networks have averaged 2,019,000 per game. According to the league, all 10 of its broadcast games during that period ranked among television's top 10 shows that week, as did four of the six on cable. The XFL is owned by Vince McMahon, who also runs the WWE. The wrestling company announced earlier Thursday that it would "remain committed" to holding WrestleMania 36 on April 5 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
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XFL standings 2020:
East Division
St. Louis BattleHawks - 3-2
New York Guardians - 3-2
DC Defenders - 33-2
Tampa Bay Vipers - 1-4
West Division
Houston Roughnecks - 5-0
Dallas Renegades - 2-3
Seattle Dragons - 2-3
Los Angeles Wildcats -1-4
East Division
St. Louis BattleHawks - 3-2
New York Guardians - 3-2
DC Defenders - 33-2
Tampa Bay Vipers - 1-4
West Division
Houston Roughnecks - 5-0
Dallas Renegades - 2-3
Seattle Dragons - 2-3
Los Angeles Wildcats -1-4