Details Emerge on Oliver Luck's Firing as XFL President by Vince McMahon and They're Ugly

Despite five weeks of quality football, the XFL went belly up after the coronavirus pandemic sapped the new spring football league of any possibility of attendance.

The drama does not stop there, however, as former league commissioner Oliver Luck took XFL corporate overlord and WWE mastermind Vince McMahon to court after he claimed he was wrongfully terminated. McMahon has countered by listing Luck's behaviors that forced him to relieve the commish of his job.

McMahon cites two main violations that led to Luck's firing. First, and most glaringly, he allegedly "abandoned his responsibilities" when the pandemic broke out, moving his office from XFL headquarters in Connecticut to his own home in Indiana. Second, he signed troubled former NFL receiver Antonio Callaway and refused to release him when McMahon objected on the grounds that he didn't want players with such questionable histories.

Luck sued McMahon after he was fired, claiming that he terminated without just cause. If this is the case, Luck would be entitled to a lump sum payment of between $20 million and $25 million, per his contract.

The unfortunate, unlucky demise of the XFL has kicked off the first of what should be many contentious legal battles that determines how the money invested into this venture will be split up. And at this rate, things are sure to get a lot worse before any hatchets can be buried.