While there are reports circulating that the XFL's website inadvertently revealed its eight host cities for the league's inaugural season, the league has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday, Dec. 5 to make the official announcement.

Mandatory's blog WrestleZone snapped a screenshot from the XFL's official website, which listed Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, St. Louis, Seattle, Tampa Bay and Washington D.C. as host cities.

It's important to note that seven of these eight already host an NFL team, and St. Louis just recently lost its Rams to LA. Several teams have been confirmed by either beat reporters or WWE insiders in the aforementioned cities, including St. Louis, Seattle and Washington D.C.

The XFL will look to launch its revival season in 2020 with an eight-team, 10-week regular season. Each team will have 40 players on its active roster, and the playoffs will consist of four teams.

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The wait is almost over! This coming Wednesday, Dec. 5, we unveil our eight cities and the venues we will play in for our inaugural season in 2020.



🎥 Watch LIVE at Noon ET on https://t.co/hAlDLJuvRV or right here on Twitter! #XFL2020 pic.twitter.com/3AW9J2Qe9x — XFL (@xfl2020) November 29, 2018

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Vince McMahon of WWE fame is once again the man behind the XFL as its founder and chairman. The XFL's original lone season happened in 2001, and was a project from NBC and the WWE. The league is remembered for its unique set of rules, sexually-suggestive cheerleaders and for losing $70 million.

When McMahon announced the return of the infamous spring football league in early 2018, he offered some details behind his vision for the league.

Those with past criminal records will not be allowed to play in the league, and that it is likely that standing for the "time-honored" tradition of standing for the national anthem before a game will be included in the rulebook.

One of these changes the WWE owner seemed to confirm during the announcement was that the XFL would aim for two-hour long games potentially without a halftime break.

"Would you eliminate halftime?" he asked during the media event. "Would you have fewer commercial breaks? Would the game of football be faster? Would the rules be more basic?

"Sitting and watching a three-, three-and-a-half-hour football game is laborious sometimes."

As for a broadcasting partner, McMahon's wrestling promotion has its own network in the WWE Network and the WWE itself has received more mainstream coverage in recent years. McMahon didn't have anything to offer when it came to distribution at the time of the announcement, but did say he envisions a mix of standard and new streaming services.

The original XFL was 50-50 owned by the WWE and NBC Sports, but the fact that CBS, FOX, ABC/ESPN and NBC all are tied-in with the NFL in some capacity doesn't help McMahon. Throw in the fact that the WWE now has a billion-dollar partnership with FOX for its SmackDown Live show, and the broadcast speculation gets even more interesting.

The Los Angeles Xtreme are the lone XFL Champions as they were led by eventual Pittsburgh Steelers starting QB Tommy Maddox. Maddox would become one of four players to win both a Super Bowl and XFL Championship. Former XFL players Ron Carpenter, Isaac Davis, Kelly Herndon, Corey Ivy, Paris Lenon, Yo Murphy, Bobby Singh and Smart and Maddox would play in a Super Bowl.