Belli, McCallum and Barker all have fond memories of their time in XFL
The XFL provided Adriano Belli with his first job in professional football and a life lesson on the perils of Sin City.
Upon receiving his first game cheque from the Las Vegas Outlaws in 2001, Belli decided to put the US$7,000 towards buying his first car. Trouble was, the 40-year-old Toronto native was living in a hotel that also had a casino.
“I’m 21 and thinking, ‘Wow, $7,000 for a week’s work? That’s pretty good,’” Belli said. “I go by the roulette table and I’m like, ‘If I bet it all on black, there’s my first car.’
“So I bet it all on black and it went red. But you know, I had so much fun (in XFL), I learned so much from the older guys and you know what? I bought the car a couple of weeks later, a Jeep.”