Lingerie League Football
Sometimes I have to put the controller down to face what passes for the real world. This seems to be when I get into he most trouble.
It started out innocently enough; I was online looking for a car loan calculator so that I can replace that old beater that Mom won’t let me park in the driveway. Somewhere in the search I saw a reference to the Lingerie Football League. After a good healthy chuckle, the drudgery of paying for a new used heap flew from my mind, and I had to learn more about this serious sport.
I was more than a little surprised to find out that it is a real deal! It is all based on marketing hype, of course. But pretty girls playing tackle football in skimpy uniforms? Hype or not, if you ask me, it is genius! The games got started as a pay-per-view alternative to the Super Bowl half time shows. (This sounds even better than Janet’s wardrobe malfunction!)
The league got started with a 20 game season in 2009-2010, with the championship falling on Super Bowl Sunday. The weekly games were televised over MyNetwork TV, but most of the fans that found the games probably found them streaming on YouTube.
For the 2010-2011 season, league play was picked up by MTV2, who present 20 regular season games and two playoff games. The big weekly game is presented on LFL Presents: LFL Friday Night Football.
The play is based on arena football with a 50 yard long field, no punting or field goals, and 7 players on each side (one fewer than an arena football team). Teams are made of twenty girls each, but only fourteen are active on game day. This means that there are usually three or four who go both ways, er, play both offense and defense.
Of course we “dedicated gamers” will be most interested in the uniforms. The girls are decked out in their team colors, but not a lot of graphics (there isn’t much room on the uniform for art). The girls wear light shoulder, knee, and elbow pads. The main uniform consists of bra, panties, and a garter belt (double sided tape is supposedly widely used to prevent “wardrobe malfunctions”). A hockey-style helmet is used to protect their pretty heads, but a clear face mask lets us see their pretty faces. All in all, the uniforms are less revealing than female track and field uniforms.