by NATALIA HAWK
The Lingerie Football League is losing the lingerie. That’s right – the sport made famous by its inclusion of garters, frilly undies and bras on the footy field is re-branding.
The female players have to play NAKED now.
Nah, we’re just messing with you.
The players are actually getting brand new REAL and SENSIBLE sporting attire in the form of, you know, clothes.
According to the company’s press release, more functional “performance wear” will now replace all lingerie aspects of the original uniforms, presumably in an attempt to shift the focus away from boobies and more towards the sport they are actually playing.
But that’s not all – the name is now changing too. It’s going to be called “Legends Football League”, and the tagline will be “Women of the Gridiron” instead of “True Fantasy Football”. Sexy female figures will also be removed from all logos.
“While the Lingerie Football League name has drawn great media attention allowing us to showcase the sport to millions, we have now reached a crossroad of gaining credibilty as a sport or continuing to be viewed as a gimmick,” Mitchell Mortaza, the founder and Chairman, said in a statement.
“In the coming years we will further establish this sport in the U.S., Australia, Europe and Asia as the most known form of American football globally. In order to reach the next milestone, we feel the focus has to be the sport and our amazing athletes.”
Well. I’m pretty stoked about all of the above. I’m a big supporter of equal opportunities for women in sport.
This is because I have been lucky enough to experience the benefits behind said equal opportunities.
I’ve tried dozens of sports, some more than once because I have the tendency to forget that I am crap at things. I took up tennis in 1998, and then again in 2002 (and then one last time in 2011… don’t judge me) and at no point did someone say “sorry sweetheart, we cannot rent you this lovely court because you have a vagina.” They said, “come on in but please don’t accidentally concuss your instructor like last time, that was a lot of paperwork.”
I’ve also been able to attend a number of university championships for touch football. Note that my uni always takes equal amounts of boys and girls along to these championships, so it’s fair to each sex.
At the championships, the women support the men, just as the men support the women. Once, someone from the men’s team told me that I was a shitty player and the other men made him a) apologise instantly and b) drink microwaved beer out of a used footy boot.
Top Comments
I tried to play football in my undies once. Everyone laughed at me and I was made to put clothes one... How is that equal opportunity?!!
Um. This is the new uniform. The 'good news' for women in sport is where exactly?
WTF?? So it's literally just rebranding to please the feminist masses who haven't actually seen the uniform - there's no change at all, other than the name!!
Yep, this is complete bullsh*t. In no way is it proving that the organisers have changed the 'focus [to] the sport and our amazing athletes.' It's just women in underwear with shoulder pads, for crying out loud. It's just that it's a more 'masculine' (and thus now presumably more 'credible') colour. Get real, Legends Football League, and take a leaf out of the Nat's touch football uniform if you want actual respect.