The ladies of the Lingerie Football League were in Vegas on Wednesday to promote Lingerie Bowl 8 on…actually, I missed that part of it, but I’m at a loss as to how this “league” stays in business. If you’ve seen one aspiring starlet get depants’d while running a power sweep, you’ve seen them all.

Also, where does “lingerie football player” fall on the sliding scale of lady-ness? If “crack-addled prostitute” is on the bottom and “Hillary Clinton/Mother Theresa lovechild” is on the top (just go with it), where would we slot a young twentysomething that plays on the gridiron in her bra and panties?

But really, the fact that this is still around amazes me. What do they expect me to do–masturbate to football players? No thank you. I haven’t done that since John Elway retired. Img via Socialite Life.

The LA Temptation won the Lingerie Football League in Miami last Sunday by a final score of oh who am I kidding just look at the damn photos already. I love how the LFL refers to themselves as “real fantasy football,” which would probably be true if their league featured a Brian Westbrook that could actually stay healthy all year, but I digress. We’ve already been through seven years of lingerie football, which is sort of mind-blowing. I still remember the days where you had to watch sports and pleasure yourself in two separate sittings. –WeSay [new window]

The Lingerie Football League is barely a week into their season, but that didn’t stop an exhibition breaking out during the Chicago Bliss home opener. Ellie Cartabiano tries to execute the LFL’s version of the naked bootleg, but can’t seem to bust out into the open. Video’s after the jump, but if you’re looking for something extra to inspire five knuckles-worth of freedom, I have bad news. Unless you’re a really big fan of defense, and broads tackling each other in hockey pads. That does it for some people. Read the rest of this entry »

Bob Hewko has been around the block: the former Florida Gator played in two games with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1983. He served as GM for the Tampa Bay Storm in the old Arena Football League [single tear], and he’s done some work after football in Vegas. So he seems like a natural fit to coach the Miami Caliente of the Lingerie Football League. The Miami franchise is led by Reese Zoppelt, who apparently works in a Coyote Ugly spinoff bar of some kind. And apparently hates pants, which is probably an LFL prerequisite, anyway. Here’s video of the Caliente tryout and some shots of Reese. As for the other talent on the fiend, Hewko says his quarterback can throw it 55 yards, which is about 30 yards farther than Chad Pennington. You go, girl! via.

Here’s a video covering the Lingerie Football League’s Philadelphia Passion, and I gotta say that this is a good-looking team. No, really, check out the video: these girls seem to be solid in executing their gameplan. I credit the coach with the Hello Kitty playbook. This might be the only league where a team wears MORE equipment to practice than they do to games. I guess the weight of the extra clothing helps with training. Yeah, that’s it. via.

The Seattle Mist of the Lingerie Football League are holding a minicamp this week, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer valiantly sent a photographer to snap pictures of this watershed moment in sports history.  (I smell Puuuuuliiitzerrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!)  Also on hand was columnist Jim Moore:

“Yes it’s sexy, but we have to maintain the fan base by giving them good competitive football,” said LFL founder and chairman Mitchell Mortaza, who was at Wednesday’s minicamp. [...] When looking for attributes, Mortaza said the league wants players who are confident, athletic and beautiful.

“In that order?” he was asked.

“Absolutely,” he said. “But we’re not going to have 225-pound bruisers out there either.”

It’s what they’re tentatively calling the “No Fat Chicks” rule.  Anyway, we’ve got a nice little collection of photos here, but there’s plenty more at the PI’s gallery.  It’s the first time I’ve ever been aroused by pro football players.  Well, except for Steve Largent.  But I was young and hadn’t learned to suppress those feelings yet.

(thanks to Robert for the tip)