The birth of the crude, iconoclastic XFL has generated widespread consternation in this country's otherwise refined society. Some Americans worry that the new league, with its unsophisticated cheerleaders, substandard announcers and Paleolithic fans, could hasten the decline of the staid, conservative, classy National Football League, represented by such paragons of virtue as Baltimore's Ray Lewis and Carolina's Rae Carruth. Others worry it will plunge all of American life into a Visigoth-ic era of boorishness.
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