Lingerie Football League Brawl: Benches Clear During A Contest Between Orlando And Baltimore (VIDEO)
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With a name like the Lingerie Football League fans might mistakenly think of soft frilly cotton or silky satin. They'll likely also think of beautiful women.
The LLF has one of those things in abundance. The female players are young, extremely physically fit and scantily clad. But make no mistake, there appears to be nothing soft in this video of a brawl during a game between the Orlando Fantasy and the Baltimore Charm.
Of course, WWE wrestlers always seem to really dislike one another.
After another fight broke out during an LFL game in 2010, a post at The Big Lead asked readers to weigh in on whether or not the fisticuffs were staged. While there may be some who believe that some of the action is staged and many who believe that the entire enterprise is in poor taste, it is hard to doubt the effort put forth by the combatants.
In fact, one of the controversies surrounding the league involved claims that players were not properly compensated after suffering serious injury during play. Former Seattle Mist quarterback Natasha Lindsey went public with claims that the league did not adequately cover her medical bills after she suffered a torn ACL while playing.
The league, which recently expanded to Canada, was founded in 2009, now has 12 total teams that each play four games. Many of the women participating were collegiate athletes of some stripe but few had access to organized, full-contact football.
Not surprisingly, the lingerie-only sport has naturally drawn the ire of many. League founder Mitchell S. Mortaza told the Toronto Star in April that “These are women who are athletic but also very beautiful and very marketable,” and didn't deny that women were required to have "cute smiles and taut bodies" to get a spot in the LFL.
These comments prompted Andrew Bucholtz of Yahoo! Sports to lament, "Mortaza and his league are clearly indicating that they care more about how their players look than how they play, and that's an idea that could negatively influence women's sports at all levels."
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First Posted: 09/22/11 04:50 PM ET Updated: 11/22/11 05:12 AM ET