The Los Angeles Xtreme was a professional American football

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 team based in Los Angeles, California

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. The team was a member of the XFL

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 begun by Vince McMahon

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 of World Wrestling Entertainment

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 and by NBC

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, a major television

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 network in the United States

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. The team played its home games in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

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 in the spring of 2001. They were in the XFL's Western Division with the San Francisco Demons

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, the Memphis Maniax

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 and the Las Vegas Outlaws

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The Las Vegas Outlaws were an American football team in the short-lived XFL in the Western Division with the Los Angeles Xtreme, San Francisco Demons and Memphis Maniax...

. The team had the league's best passing offense and was nicknamed "L.A.X." as a pun on the IATA code for Los Angeles International Airport

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