The return of the XFL is now right around the corner as the alternative football league will be kicking off (again) in 2020. With XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck continuing to make his round en route to getting fans throughout the country hyped up for the second version of the WWE-affiliated professional football league, it appears as though Vince McMahon will be doing a few things differently this time around.

For starters, Luck is unsure if the XFL will test its players for marijuana.

“Though Luck says he has softened McMahon’s original hard-line stance against players with any criminal history—it is now zero tolerance for credible accusations of felonies and domestic violence, with misdemeanors interpreted individually—he said in March he was unsure whether the XFL would welcome Johnny Manziel, who since then played two games for the AAF’s Memphis Express,” reads a recent article from Dan Greene of Sports Illustrated. “And while the commish says he would “prefer not to test for marijuana,” he concedes he has not thought about how the XFL would handle a player like Josh Gordon, who has been suspended repeatedly by the NFL for using the drug, but without any attendant legal issues.”

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Luck, who is the father of current Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, will definitely have a tall task on his hands considering how the first installment of the XFL came to an abrupt halt back in the early 2000s. Even so, it appears as though the new-look XFL will attempt to revamp its approach in order to sustain success this time around.