NFL week 1. Lingerie Football league.

We arrived at the ShoWare centers, and opened up the bus ready for the lingerie football!

NFL Week 1st San Diego Seduction to Seattle Mist, ShoWare Center. 11th September 2009
By Adam Goldstein

San Diego Seduction 8-14 Seattle Mist

We arrived at the ShoWare centers, and opened up the bus ready for the lingerie football! No one else was "tailgating" but some people were intrigued by our bus and we threw the pigskin around the car park. My friend Gabe plays wide receiver on his football team, and he was making finger-tip catch and saved me from breaking a fair few windows.

The hot wings were cooked up and we all tucked in. The bus did look a little strange fully opened up in a half empty car park with no other Tailgate or R. Vs around.

Tonight was The Seattle Mist's inaugural game of this franchise and we were a little disappointed that we were the only Tailgate, but were excited to see half naked women play football.

Like excited school children the five of us fully grown but flashed our tickets to the staff and made our way straight past the black curtain into the arena. Tonight is the Seattle Mist's inaugural game in this new league. All I was duty was that it is a new professional female sports, where women play tackle football in their underwear! Sounds good right?

We pulled back the curtain and our testosterone levels shot up. Although our tickets were high up in the indoor arena, we simply just stayed on "goal page" by the padded wall on the half-way line (25 yard line).

The game had already started and we were all in shock that this was real and actually happening. 14 women graced the football astro turf and got into football formations, dressed only in skin tight lingerie, knee pads, lacrosse helmets and football shoulder pads, that are made smaller so the players' Cleavage were still visible ... naturally.

The audience was about 90% but but the few women supporters were getting into the game. I looked up to the score line and it was already 8-0 to the Seattle Mist. The game is played out over two 15 minute half on a 50 yard field, plus End zone, just like the Arena Football League. The walls are padded and really needed to be Because on their first play I saw the running got slammed into the boards. The crowd roared and I was in shock to how hard she got hit. It was a surreal image and beautiful image. It was as if Playboy themselves had created a sporting cocktail of football, ice hockey and female oil wrestling.

The girls subbed on the fly like in hockey and got straight into the action. I would not have liked those female football players to hit me as hard as they did tonight ... then again maybe I would have?

The teams were organized on defense and offense. Though both QB's struggled in their aerial attacks. Hail Marys were continually thrown, or under thrown. The teams play four downs and-half-way or goal. Before long the home team pieced together a few running plays finding themselves with just three yards to go. By this time several of the players were now showing signs of carpet burn but this did not distract them from going in 100%.

It was a quick Handoff and the running back Bamboozled here way into the end zone. The away team looked annoyed with themselves and began blaming each other for their defensive woes. There was no point after kick. In fact there was no kicking at all. The home team made the one point conversion, via a two yard rush and went up 14-0. Possession changed hands several times and the players struggled two make passing plays, but their running game and tackling was very impressive. There were several requests that Ray Lewis would have been proud of.

14-0 took us into the halftime break, when it dawned on me that this new league, is a perfect mixture of football and a wet dream as this is what football looks like in heaven! What's impressive is just how much passion the players hate, and Clearly they all wanted to win. The $ 25 ticket is good value and the five us were all hoping for triple overtime.

During the break the only two cheerleaders brought out five male fans who all competed in a dance off. It was here that I met one of Travis's friend's, Big Lo who is one of the all time great Seattle fans. Big Lo goes to every Seattle sports games and is quite the celebrity up here in the North West.

The second half was just as explosive and I was impressed at just how quickly the players were getting up again after some strong tackling. The San Diego Seduction got back in the game with a few catches and punched the ball into the End zone, but they could not make the conversion. Though it was too little too late and the home team began two dominate in all areas, and Although they could not add to their score, they deserved to win. The winning team did two lap of honor high-fiving as many fans as they could.

We were all in awe and shock that what we had witnessed. "Awesome" was the main word on everyone's lips. Some may argue this was just pretty half naked women running around, (well yes it was), but from a sporting point of view both teams played hard, wanted to win and with that mentality any commitment it was pleasure to watch on both levels.

I am not totally sure just how far and for how long this new league could go. The lingerie bowl first started as an alternative football game during the Super Bowl and was a one-off game. Now there are eight teams in two divisions who will continue to play until the end of January before they have their playoffs. If I was lucky enough to live in one of the cities that has an LFL team, I would be out buying my season tickets now!