Men like sex.
What do guys like other than sex? Football.
Fantasy football has taken on a new meaning due to the newly founded Lingerie Football League. The LFL, simply put, is a bunch of hot models that suit up to play the All-American game in a helmet, shoulder pads and skanky lingerie.
What more could a guy ask for?
Well, women could ask for more. This TV scheme is just one of the many cases in which women continue to be objectified. The LFL is taking women with a pretty face and a hot body and putting them in their underwear while they try to teach them how to play football.
It is absolutely disgusting that women would degrade themselves to wear a bra and underwear and support the right of men to use us as sex symbols.
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was started in 1943 for the main purpose that Americans could still watch baseball for entertainment purposes while the men were off fighting World War II. The league creators took women who were already skilled baseball players and then dressed them into more eye-catching uniforms.
However, 65 years later, the exact opposite has been done.
There are athletic women and leagues that play real sports, like the WNBA or WMLS. The LFL is not one of them.
This "made-up" league's message seems to be that sports can only be enjoyed by men if the women that play them show some skin.
Anyone who believes this is a good idea or even a real sport is downright wrong. This is a humiliating display of poor representation of female athletics. It creates an idea that women athletes are jokes. The LFL is only about making money, while the founder doesn't realize what his selfishness is doing to women across the world.
This is a step backward for all women, especially those who pour their heart, soul and sweat into a sport to only get sub-par recognition after the collegiate level.
The women from the WNBA and other leagues have spent their entire lives devoted to playing and training for their sport at the highest level. They are not former go-go dancers or models looking for some fast cash by using their looks to their advantage.
Rather then players like Mia Hamm or Lauren Jackson, models who have just been taught football will be given the spotlight over serious female athletes, some of whom already do not get the support and recognition they deserve.
Gimmicks like this are hurting women's athletics by portraying women as sexual objects. The LFL will not take viewers away from the Women's Professional Football League or other established professional leagues for women but it will hinder their creditability.
Mitchell Mortaza, the founder of the LFL, chose the players based on how attractive they were. After that, their athleticism was tested. He hopes his league is "sexy" and "legitimate".
While the league should attract interest in men and photograph pages in magazines like Playboy and Maxim, will it last? Will it be able to hold onto the attention of viewers for an entire season? I don't know.
If it does, it would be a downright shame. While women who care about football like Megan Huls of the Women's Professional Football League's try to make it in professional sports, LFL players like Britainie De Garbott are not helping one bit.
