Lingerie Football Hiatus: League Takes Year Off To Promote Sport

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- The U.S. Lingerie Football League is forgoing a 2012 season in order to expand the sport abroad and refocus it as a warm-weather game.

Spokesman Jim Wallin said Thursday the LFL will resume playing in April 2013 on a spring-summer playing schedule. He says the hiatus will also allow the league to concentrate on launching in Canada this fall and free U.S. players to participate in a promotional all-star tour.

The "All Fantasy Tour" will start in Mexico City next month, followed by dates in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, and possibly cities in Asia later in the year.

The LFL, which is based in West Hollywood, Calif., plans to launch a league in Australia in 2013. The three-year-old LFL features all-female, seven-member teams playing in lingerie and football pads.

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Comments

[Hugatreetoday]

03:44 PM on 04/17/2012

Do they grind around on the end zone pole when they score?

[WestCactus]

04:18 PM on 04/16/2012

So many "fumble" jokes. . . I'll refrain.

[happyblackman]

01:34 PM on 04/16/2012

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RickM1969]

06:40 PM on 04/15/2012

I knoe the LFL is considered a joke but those women can play.

[ddocdetroit16]

11:00 AM on 04/15/2012

Personally I'm waiting for lingerie shuffle board in Sarasota next winter. Anybody get a mental picture? Sorry.

[paddy523]

09:46 AM on 04/15/2012

No slide show???

[dalep2]

03:03 AM on 04/15/2012

My wife doesn't believe in women announcers in Football. I have to agree, even in lingirie...not the same

[ipleathe5thh]

11:51 PM on 04/14/2012

Even as a guy and every guy loves to see cute girls in Binkinis but there's a difference between looking cute and bashing eachother maybe if they tackled and then wrestled in the mud or something

[goldengirl43]

07:59 PM on 04/14/2012

Just proves my point that men will not watch women's sports even if the players are "nakkid".

[paddy523]

09:53 AM on 04/15/2012

Does girl/girl count as a sport??

[Robert A Hayes]

03:27 PM on 04/14/2012

promote... self promotion actually at you local strip-joint. post-game lockeroom interviews will cost you extra.

[Pleasehold]

12:59 PM on 04/14/2012

Oh, I think they will find some other way to make fools of themselves this year. Do they have any big girls on the teams that can level these broads? Thats football tuts, walk it off.

[jflorish]

12:19 PM on 04/14/2012

Those LF women are probably the hottest women in the world from what I've seen.

[taatiita]

12:42 AM on 04/15/2012

If you think they are the hottest, that means you either 1. you haven't seen the world 2. your definition of hot = naked 3. you haven't seen many "hot" women before..Get out more hun and your opinion will change in a jiffy :p

[butchcliff]

08:16 AM on 04/14/2012

Apparently many women quit because they weren't being paid/covered for any health benefits when injured, & then dropped from the teams. Plus their salaries were minimal. Taking a year off should used to study & put in place better compensation for the players.

[butchcliff]

05:00 AM on 04/15/2012

Apparently they didn't. Then they started to get injured & weren't covered by the league when they thought they would be.

[jherbord]

03:19 AM on 04/14/2012

All teams must do Playboy Spreads....People need to see what they are paying for.

[James Taylor 4000]

02:04 AM on 04/14/2012

if you guys really think this is sport and deserves respect - why do they have to be half-naked? oh that's right - because all men are pigs. just waiting for half-naked men's soccer - wouldn't that be a dream for the ladies?

[rubbish379]

09:13 AM on 04/14/2012

"why do they have to be half-naked" i dont know ask the person wh made it. "because all men are pigs" i could add a sexist comment too but Ill pass. "just waiting for half-naked men's soccer" watch men's swimming or diving. It would be a dream for me if you left and never came back here.

[James Taylor 4000]

01:48 PM on 04/14/2012

it's a free country, buddy. i can post wherever i please. or should women not have any free will of their own and just do as you men say? i bet in your ideal world, women are confined to the kitchen or the lingerie bowl playing field and that's it.

[James Taylor 4000]

02:06 PM on 04/14/2012

btw, you won't comment on my "all men are pigs" statement because you know it's true. and it would be a dream for me if guys like you didn't exist.

[rchilds59]

11:01 AM on 04/14/2012

Could the whiners please just quit posting herein? The LFL players wear twice as much clothing as college and pro volleyball players, and more than both track & field athletes and gymnasts. You seem eerily silent about that.

[jflorish]

12:19 PM on 04/14/2012

Not fair, you can't actually use facts here. :)

[James Taylor 4000]

01:55 PM on 04/14/2012

"the whiners" can post wherever they please. they have just as much right to do so as you and you have no business telling them otherwise. also i'm not going to even address your comments about the comparative attire of female athletes because the fact that you scrutinize their uniforms to the extent that you seem to, is incredibly sad. take care.