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Lingerie Football League shedding lingerie, and not in the fun way
philly.com ^ | Thursday, January 10, 2013, 2:26 PM

Posted on 01/23/2013 4:39:27 PM PST by BenLurkin

the Lingerie Football League has announced plans to rename itself the “Legends Football League.” As part of the move, the LFL will be ditching the thing that made the league noteworthy in the first place: lingerie.

Other changes include new team logos absent of "sexy female figures," redesigned shoulder pads to increase protection, and changing their slogan from "True Fantasy Football" to "Women of the Gridiron."

The players will no longer wear modified bras, panties, and garters while playing tackle football on turf (ouch!), instead favoring more traditional performance wear which will “replace all lingerie aspects” of the league’s uniforms.

The league is billing it as “the next step in the maturation of our now global sport.” It goes on to state that the change was made to stop being “viewed as a gimmick” and legitimize the sport by focusing on its athletes’ talents, rather than their bodies.

Are the sell-out crowds the league boasts about showing up to watch the exciting seven-on-seven play? Did the LFL become the first female sports league to get its own videogame because of the novelty of football with no punting or kicking? Are Philadelphia Passion fans showing up to the Wells Fargo Center to watch the athletic prowess of the players?

Let’s face it, probably not.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


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1 posted on 01/23/2013 4:39:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

“What is the sound of ratings dropping?”


2 posted on 01/23/2013 4:42:29 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: BenLurkin

Does this mean there are 6’-4” 260 pound linemen, oops line women, in the future?


3 posted on 01/23/2013 4:47:49 PM PST by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: Fzob

Only if Leon Panetta and the Joint Smoking Chiefs of Staff say so.


4 posted on 01/23/2013 4:53:55 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I gotta call Golic tomorrow during his show on WNIR!


5 posted on 01/23/2013 4:55:11 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah sure and I watch beach volleyball for the athleticism. Sure.


6 posted on 01/23/2013 4:57:36 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: BenLurkin

Are these games televised? I have never seen one.


7 posted on 01/23/2013 4:59:13 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Probably be better than the Har-bowel


8 posted on 01/23/2013 5:05:37 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: BenLurkin

Say it ain’t so!!!


9 posted on 01/23/2013 5:09:19 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: BenLurkin

Out with babes sporting sexy lingerie, in with lesbians sprouting hairy moles.


10 posted on 01/23/2013 5:10:49 PM PST by twister881
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To: BenLurkin

Apparently someone missed the entire point of LFL


11 posted on 01/23/2013 5:13:46 PM PST by mnehring
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To: BenLurkin
Legends? Will the University of Michigan be part of it?
12 posted on 01/23/2013 5:17:01 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: BenLurkin

The new business model is based on the notion that men watch pole dancers because they are big dance fans.


13 posted on 01/23/2013 5:24:33 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

they have ratings?

I have never seen it nor do I have any interest in seeing sluts play “football”


14 posted on 01/23/2013 5:31:51 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

Guess I have to give up my season tickets.


15 posted on 01/23/2013 5:38:43 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I own a weapon to protect my family from those wanting to take that weapon away.)
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To: GeronL

I guess “Tucker’s Law” has finally clipped the lingerie bowl ....


16 posted on 01/23/2013 5:40:36 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: mnehring

‘Apparently someone missed the entire point of LFL’

Huh?

I thought that there were two points to LFL?


17 posted on 01/23/2013 5:44:19 PM PST by Delta Dawn (at)
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To: BenLurkin

Increasingly, it seems like the 100 Years of Winter endured by Narnia is gripping the US, with the Democrats playing the role of the White Witch, ensuring there is no joy anywhere.


18 posted on 01/23/2013 5:56:58 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than my guns.)
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To: BenLurkin

why don’t they bring over some housewives of the Reality TV heifer size to play a few games, who needs padding when you got poochies?

I’m gonna try and watch the puppy bowl this year..


19 posted on 01/23/2013 6:04:51 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: mnehring
Apparently someone missed the entire point of LFL

Well, if history is any indicator -- and this comparison is really, really a stretch, I know -- this will become something else and some other outlet will create a new "fantasy" football for the same reason that (here's the best example I can use at the moment) that sci-fi fans watch BBC America instead of the SyFy channel.

20 posted on 01/23/2013 6:51:59 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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