Get Your Gear On-Or Off???
Updated : May 19, 2009
VeryHappyPig used to love Saturdays. Sport kept you blissfully happy from morning to late afternoon and then late evening there was Baywatch. After watching men in various forms of shorts for six hours it was always great to catch a glimpse of Pam and Co in action.
VeryHappyPig did on occasion think if only you could put the two together-beautiful women and competitive all action sport-now that would make for a perfect day!
Well it seems some genius in America had the same idea as VeryHappyPig pig and merged beauty with the beast and created a Lingerie Football League.
The women of American football's newly created Lingerie Football League are putting a new twist on the term exhibition match.
The idea is the latest addition in the United States to a lucrative, sometimes bizarre niche mixing sex and sport.
In Freeport, on Long Island outside New York, two dozen young women stripped to skimpy gym clothes Thursday and battled for seven spots in the New York Majesty, one of 10 teams in a newly created league.
The league's Los Angeles-based founder, Mitchell Mortaza, instructed hopefuls to play this brutal game to the maximum: "If you prance, you're gonna get killed."
One contestant limped off with a leg sprain, another left nursing a knocked head, and another suffered bloody parallel scratches across her bare midriff -- apparently from an opponent's nails.
But they also had to smile. The dress code flagged for the session was "cute."
Players will be semi-professional, with earnings depending on ticket sales in stadiums like the New York Majesty's future 18,000-seat home on Long Island.
Allison Vernon, 27, who works as a personal fitness trainer in Manhattan, admitted she found the "lingerie a little scarier than the (football) drills."
"Is it sexist? Probably most people I went to college with would think so. I went to an all-women's liberal arts college," she said.
But 25-year-old Anika Edwards said one look at the league's racy website, www.lflus.com, left her convinced. She took a day off from work at a hair salon to attend the try-out.
"I've done a little modeling. Then I saw the website and I thought: that's so me. There are girls and they're playing football. I love playing football. I love to model."
According to the one of the team stalwarts, the very blonde and unseasonably tanned Melissa Teixeira, 23, accusations of sexism are off the mark.
"I don't think it's sexist at all. We're doing athletic activity as well. We're not just modeling," she said, adding: "As a model I've been in my underwear in public, so it doesn't bother me."
Would Mortaza take the field in just his underpants?
"I'll keep working on my abs. Give me a month and I'll get there," he said.
VeryHappyPig says imagine a Sunday Football Boxer Short league!! Beer guts and footballs!
