I missed this outrage until Oliver Willis brought it to my attention:
“Lingerie-Free Lingerie Bowl Planned”
The Lingerie Bowl, the controversial pay-per-view Super Bowl half-time program, won’t have its model/players on the field wearing lingerie, the show promoter said Tuesday, but denied he was pressured to do so by its sponsor, Dodge.
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Mitch Mortaza, president of Horizon Productions Inc., said despite the name of the show and promotional photos showing players clad in lingerie with numbers stitched into bras, the plans have always been for players to wear slightly different outfits. The women players — seven on each side — will wear short shorts instead of panties and a sports bras decorated with lace, rather than lingerie tops. They’ll also wear shoulderpads, helmets and other protective equipment not shown in promotional photos.
Soon they’ll be trying pass off a game between the No. 2 and 3 ranked teams in the nation as the BCS championship. . . .
Soon they’ll be trying pass off a game between the No. 2 and 3 ranked teams in the nation as the BCS championship. . . .
Get real…
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The BCS system was created under President Clinton’s reign. It’s all his fault that we find ourselves in the situation that we have today. This is the Clinton BCS championship.
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Granted, but the Clinton administration had developed intelligence that the BCS was flawed and the new Bush administration simply choose to ignore it, leading to today’s tragedy.
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I sense a meme developing….the BCS as a metaphor for the current political landscape.