AMERICAN FOOTBALL

American football was all so far as appropriate, gruff and brutal affair for tough guys. But now is the favorite sport of the Americans before an image change. A shrewd businessman who has a league-underwear for women. The players will find it's not sexist.

So far, American football as a sport for tough guys known. With helmets and chest pads, players to battle for the ball to an ovoid shape, wrangles and collisions on the field are part of the ritual. Anika Edwards and Sovann Wyong have fun at the fight, their weapons clearly differ from the classical tradition of football in the U.S.: The two young women play in the new Lingerie Football League (football league underwear), where a Sports resourceful marketers the rough ball sport with a pinch of raw eroticism has spiced. On jerseys waived the league, except bra and panties, the women nothing.

Bare skin is in the competitions for show generous - too generous, please critic. But airport employees Wyong such objections will not accept. "Many say that this was degrading, but that's not true," claims the 29-year-old player. "We do not just stand around and look pretty, but we ran tough go." Finally, even in football men sexually charged, shall in any event Wyong: "The guys wear tight pants and present their physique, their strong arms."

Wyong is like two dozen other women into the stadium from Freeport to New York come to apply for a post player in the newly established underwear League (LFL) of the California promoter Mitchell Mortaza to apply. From his selection criteria, the 35-year-old no secret: "You must look good, I say that quite openly. That is the big difference between this league and all the others. "Asked whether he swabs his ideal of beauty is when a candidate has special talent game, Mortaza almost replied:" No.. "He wanted his league profitable market, and games at the exterior of the crucial role.

With his pants league aims Mortaza to the glitzy, but very lucrative niche area at the intersection between sex and sports. Already there have been established pseudo-sports such as mud-catcher and gladiator fights that have a loyal fan and a lot of money to restore. Enormous amount of money is also available in the macho world of American football to earn Mortaza believes that we must tap the source only.

So far, Mortaza his players for game breaks from football matches on pay television can, and now he builds a real league with ten teams at the semi. In the selection of players for the New York team in Freeport, he fired the candidates to full use on the body: "Who here just rumtänzelt will platt gemacht!" Two coaches - in full clothing - are driving the women to mobility and throwing exercises. It will be hard fought: A woman with a sprained foot from the square, another runs into the head, a third has scratch marks on the skin - apparently from the fingernails of a rival.

Top athletes are football players Mortazas only insofar as they wash with lace stocking up playing bear. Most candidates are amateurs. "As a model I have ever underwear worn in public, so do not bother me," says the very blonde 23-year-old Melissa Teixeira. "I think it's not sexist, it finally goes to athletic activity."

The 27-year-old fitness trainer Allison Vernon admits that given the slightly clothed appearances has scruples. "Is that sexist? Most people with whom I went to the college, would probably say that it is. "The underwear outfit she find" something eerie than the training itself, "says Vernon. Self League chief Mortaza not concealed his discomfort. When asked whether he himself in underwear on the pitch would marry, he replied evasively: "Since I have yet to work my stomach muscles."