Jamie Nye: XFL rules will give football a fresh new look

Vince McMahon followed through on his promise to make the XFL a more innovative, safer and faster game.

Or at least that’s what his rules indicate upon their release.

Now, you can be a skeptic about the success another spring league will have but the reborn XFL will move the needle on how it’ll use the point after touchdown, with a three-point extra-point option. It also has a shootout overtime format of five possessions for each side from the five-yard line.

The XFL will have a CFL-esque game clock of 25 seconds so nobody can kneel down three times after the two-minute warning to win.

The kickoff is entirely different but I can see it allowing bigger returns, if not more touchdowns off returns.

And the best part, like the first go-round of the XFL, is that the CFL and NFL can watch, learn and maybe pick out things they like.

You can add me as a skeptic that the XFL won’t last more than two or three years, if it even gets through the first.