Here is the official website of the Lingerie Football League, which will kickoff it's inaugural season on September 4th of this year. According to wikipedia:
"The concept originated from the hugely successful Super Bowl halftime alternative television special called the Lingerie Bowl which draws millions of viewers as a pay-per-view event broadcast annually directly opposite the Super Bowl halftime show. The television mega-special has become a staple of Super Bowl Sunday festivities for millions worldwide being broadcast in over 85 countries."
"Play style is full-contact and consists of seven women on each side of the 50-yard field, akin to indoor football. Uniforms consist of helmets, shoulder pads, bikini tops and shorts."
Now, you might think that I'm sitting here disgusted, and feeling like this is just some insultingly obvious sexist ploy to provide men with weekly opportunities to watch scantily clad women run around and fall on each other. But, you'd be wrong. I actually think this is a great idea, and I cannot wait to watch these women compete. Frankly, I think a league like this is a bit overdue. What was the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 all about? Why did women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fight to have the constitution amended? Why was the Department of Labor formed? Why did women in the 1960's stand in the street burning their bras?
It's all about equal rights, man. The right to vote. The right to fair wages. The right to fair working conditions. The right to attend school with the same professional goals as men. And now, finally, the right to try and make money playing tackle football. This is one of the most sought after and cherished of the male traditions. That, my friends, is progress.
So, as of right now, there are ten teams. Conspicuously absent from the league is a team to represent the city of New York. As a Giants fan, this puts me in a bit of a bind. However, although I do not care for their male counterparts in the NFL, I have decided to throw my support behind the New England Euphoria, who will play their games at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence and whose roster features a quarterback from Fall River, a safety from Danvers, and two players from Medford (one running back and one defensive back). Among other things, it's nice to see that the LFL will provide a little more hometown flavor to the fans than the NFL does (although there are players from Puerto Rico and Vietnam on the roster of the Euphoria).
Here is the website to my new nemeses, the Dallas Desire.
We'll have more information on the Lingerie Football League as it becomes available, and hopefully we'll have full coverage of Euphoria training camp. I think a trip to open practices may be in order.
If I could say one final thing to the women of the LFL, it would be this: don't listen to the critics. Many of the great leagues we know today went through rough beginnings. There were once many who felt that there was no money to be made in professional basketball. People once believed that the pro football game could never get out of the shadow of the college game. However, at the end of the day, the players of those eras laid the foundation for future greatness. You have the full support of the roomofzen, and we look forward to watching you make out with eachother.
Sorry, I mean, we look forward to following you this season.
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