Here's an out-of-the-box idea: Instead of putting teams in cities and having them travel across the country (or even within a region) in small stadiums before small crowds, strike a deal with, say, ESPN's Wide World of Sports complex to host the entire season there. Four games, scattered over two or three days, involving eight teams that only have nicknames, played out in a tiny but modern football stadium. Chances are, this XFL will be broadcast-forward and they already have an agreement with Orlando's Full Sail University and their TV production, film and Internet marketing programs, giving their students on-the-job training with WWE's NXT minor-league wrestling organization. The XFL would be another outlet for that.

Having a single location like Orlando would cut down on overhead significantly (what's the point of putting teams in Portland and Birmingham and having them schlep all over the place when there's no local ownership anyway?) and with everything centralized, it makes logistics a good bit easier. The crowds for the games won't be big, but they probably won't be anyway (they certainly weren't after the first couple of weeks of the first XFL), and 5,000 in a 7,000-seat stadium looks better than 12,000 in a 30,000-seat stadium (I am working off the impression that if they cut a deal with WWOS, they would expand the stadium that they used to host Orlando City SC a few years ago).