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March 29, 2024

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In Lingerie Football League, players must hit hard, look good

Lingerie Football League Combine

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The Lingerie Football League combine.

Lingerie Football League Combine

The Lingerie Football League combine. Launch slideshow »

Beyond the Sun

It’s hard to look pretty while running 40-yard dashes, performing agility drills and crashing into a full-grown man almost twice your size. But that’s Lingerie Football League tryouts for you.

About 40 spandex- and sports bra-clad women showed up at the Las Vegas Indoor Soccer Complex this week for the first round of tryouts for the Las Vegas expansion team. The session included speed and vertical-leap tests, NFL-style football drills and far more mascara and cleavage than you usually see on the gridiron.

The LFL debuted a year ago with 10 teams — including the Chicago Bliss, San Diego Seduction, Los Angeles Temptation and Dallas Desire — and hopes to spread to 34 cities. The Las Vegas team has not been named yet.

Commissioner Mitchell Mortaza landed in Las Vegas looking for women with that perfect blend of honest athleticism and natural attractiveness. Like their NFL counterparts, they have to be able to take a hit. Unlike the male pros, they have to look good doing it.

“I’ve never been so bruised in my life,” Sarah Frechette said of her first season in the LFL, during which the 5-foot-7, 107-pound safety played for the reigning champion Temptation. Now living part time in Las Vegas and working at Encore Beach Club and Surrender nightclub, Frechette decided to try out for the Vegas squad.

The players will be assembled over the next six months and begin play in the fall 2011 season. The women will be paid based on the door take at games and the team record.

As for the other women at tryouts, some seemed to fall a little too far on the swimsuit-model end of the spectrum. “This is not ... cheerleading camp!” Mortaza yelled as the women ran through their paces. “This is professional football!”

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