MTV + LFL = WTFMTV?
Nov. 11th, 2011 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogY’ever want to meet a woman dressed in nothing but lingerie, a football helmet and shoulderpads, take her to the nearest football field and tackle her?
MTV would like to make that dream come true. Legally!
I’ve written before about the Lingerie Football League, and how I like (or at least respect) it more than “proper” American football, if only because they have the underdog quality of having a hard time just finding a place to play. Plus, you know, it’s chicks in lingerie for its own sake.
But I have to say, as promos go, this is a bit oddball. Dinner with the team of yr choice? I can see that. Locker-room interviews? Sure. Autographed panties? Epic win.
But tackling a player?
I mean, sure, we’re talking about consensual tackling here. And we’re also talking about tackling someone who gets tackled professionally. Also, note that what’s actually being offered here is a chance to tackle an LBL player – meaning, I doubt she’s just going to stand there like a hot tackling dummy and let the winner build up a running start. She’ll probably be a moving target, and she’ll be in physically good shape.
I would also hope that, in the interest of fairness, the contestant has to strip down to his underpants.
Still, you have to admit we’ve reached an interesting milestone in modern society when you can win a trip to a major gambling den just to have a shot at tackling a lingerie model courtesy of a major cable TV channel run by one of the biggest media corporations in the world.
I’ll also admit that it threw me off at first that MTV is backing this. I’d expect something like this from ESPN or The Playboy Channel, or even Fox News. But MTV?
Then I remembered that MTV stopped showing music videos around the end of the 90s. So considering their current programming, the Lingerie Bowl fits right in.
Hit me with yr best shot,
This is dF
MTV would like to make that dream come true. Legally!
I’ve written before about the Lingerie Football League, and how I like (or at least respect) it more than “proper” American football, if only because they have the underdog quality of having a hard time just finding a place to play. Plus, you know, it’s chicks in lingerie for its own sake.
But I have to say, as promos go, this is a bit oddball. Dinner with the team of yr choice? I can see that. Locker-room interviews? Sure. Autographed panties? Epic win.
But tackling a player?
I mean, sure, we’re talking about consensual tackling here. And we’re also talking about tackling someone who gets tackled professionally. Also, note that what’s actually being offered here is a chance to tackle an LBL player – meaning, I doubt she’s just going to stand there like a hot tackling dummy and let the winner build up a running start. She’ll probably be a moving target, and she’ll be in physically good shape.
I would also hope that, in the interest of fairness, the contestant has to strip down to his underpants.
Still, you have to admit we’ve reached an interesting milestone in modern society when you can win a trip to a major gambling den just to have a shot at tackling a lingerie model courtesy of a major cable TV channel run by one of the biggest media corporations in the world.
I’ll also admit that it threw me off at first that MTV is backing this. I’d expect something like this from ESPN or The Playboy Channel, or even Fox News. But MTV?
Then I remembered that MTV stopped showing music videos around the end of the 90s. So considering their current programming, the Lingerie Bowl fits right in.
Hit me with yr best shot,
This is dF
