Those SWM readers who live in America know that it is football season. To know this, one would simply need to turn on the TV and do a little channel surfing at just about any time of the day or night on either Saturday or Sunday. Of course, I forgot ESPN’s Monday Night Football and the Thursday evening games. My point is this, football (to the chagrin of many a reader, I’m sure) is ubiquitous, in America, this time of year.
What you may not be aware of is that there’s a new league, something called the Lingerie Football League, or the LFL, for short.
As the official LFL website makes clear, this new league is composed solely of women players, with the rules being slightly different from the men’s game. The game is full contact, and many of the competitors, as official Lingerie Football League promotional materials make clear, have storied athletic backgrounds. There are currently ten professional LFL franchises that represent the following cities: Chicago (Bliss), New York (Majesty), Philadelphia (Passion), Tampa (Breeze), Miami (Caliente), Seattle (Mist), Dallas (Desire), Los Angeles (Temptation), San Diego (Seduction), and Denver (Dream).
To get a sense of what the game is like, there are several videos available on the league website. There’s also this one, shot by a fan, at one of the Bliss games.
After watching the video, it’s clear that the spectators are really into it, but that may not be surprising given the players’ uniforms (or lack thereof). All this raises an interesting question: Should this sport be taken seriously, or is it an example of sex-ploitation?
The LFL would certainly like to give the impression that the sport is for real, and the players themselves talk about how they don’t want to be thought of as “powder puffs,” but then again, LFL officials have used the term “lingerie” to describe this new league. That would be like changing the name of the NFL to the “Boxer Shorts Football League.”
I’d like to hear from my readers. What do you think about this new sport and the LFL?
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