<Dt> WFL on TVS </Dt> <Dd> TVS Television Network, a syndicator best known for its coverage of college sports, signed on to televise the World Football League, a fledgling major football league, in its inaugural 1974 season . TVS would carry a weekly Thursday night game with a two - man announcing crew and, in most weeks, a celebrity guest commentator . The league soon devolved into chaos; several teams either moved or folded midseason, including the New York Stars, a team that was particularly important to the network's viewership ratings, and schedule changes were being made on an almost weekly basis . The WFL was further undermined by a scandal in which league owners were caught lying about paid attendance, having inflated ticket sales by as much as tenfold, which destroyed fans' and TV stations' confidence in the league . By the end of the 1974 season, TVS found it impossible to sell the games to local stations, and ratings fell to levels that were anemic even by modern standards . TVS issued an ultimatum to the WFL demanding that the Chicago Winds sign Joe Namath in order to continue TV coverage in 1975; the Winds failed to do so, and TVS pulled the plug, leaving the WFL untelevised for its final, abortive season . </Dd> <Dt> XFL on NBC, XFL on TNN and XFL on UPN </Dt> <Dd> The three television programs covering the XFL are generally treated as one for the purposes of worst television show lists . The series, the subject of Brett Forrest's book Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco, ranked #3 on the 2002 TV Guide list of worst TV series of all time, #2 on ESPN's list of biggest sports flops, #21 on TV Guide's 2010 list of the biggest television blunders of all time, and #10 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the biggest bombs in television history . Among its problems were a series of low - scoring and unexciting games, the involvement of the World Wrestling Federation, an emphasis on tawdry stunts, a particularly poor casting choice in which Jerry "The King" Lawler was hired as a color analyst despite his near - total lack of knowledge of or interest in football, disagreements between WWF and NBC over the direction of the league's presentation, generally inferior talent (only a few of the players would go on to make an impact in the National Football League or had done so already), minimal sports media coverage outside of the networks carrying it, and even a possible involvement of the Sports Illustrated cover jinx . </Dd>

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