Ashli explains offsides in soccer

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Sick of Pink

Let me set the scene.  Two brothers who only see each other a couple of times a year are meeting up because one of them is getting deployed and they won't see each other for at least a year.  This weekend is without wives/girlfriends.  They have just come into the house from doing maintenance on a car.  To relax they decide to turn on the football game and bond. 

Something must be wrong with the color, is this the HD channel?  Why is everything such an annoying shade of pink?  Whose idea was it to make the Chargers logo a lightening bolt frowny face?  OMG... my eyes hurt from the attrocious pink.  I want to watch football not be on the receiving end of your charity awareness campaign. 

That's right, Charity Awareness, not breast cancer awareness.  I never heard one word about getting checked once a year.  I didn't hear about how to do a self check, and this is football, so we would have fallen all over ourselves for a demonstration from one of the cheerleaders.  I was informed that I could go to the NFL store and buy the officially licensed pink gear I saw in todays game numerous times.  I also heard the name Susan G. Komen, who I can only assume had the association named after her after going into hand to hand combat with cancer cells one on one until she finally fell under exhaustion but not before performing three miracles. 

Upon further research I find that the name of the organization no longer even refers to breast cancer and that about 50% of the money goes to advertising and public healt education (which I read as "more advertising").  Wow, a hole 20 percent goes towards researching a cure and this is just what the organization collects.  The NFL is selling all the pink gear and you can be sure they are making a profit from it as well. 

Pink is a marketing campaign.  I guess they are raising awareness, because I am completely aware that the organization exists, I just am not sure what they actually do besides making me aware of their existence.  Did you know that a man can get Breast Cancer?  Wouldn't an NFL game supposedly promoting the disease mention this?  You would think.  While female vewiership is increasing, the NFL is still watched by more men.  Where is the testicular cancer campaign or the prostate cancer campaign.  At least make us aware of something that could affect us.  While my wife or other loved ones could get breast cancer, I am not the one scheduling that appointment or doing that self check.  But that is pointless because you are not even mentioning that in your media blitz. 

So buy pink stuff.  Whatever it is the organization finally gets from your purchase, 20% of it will go towards research to looking for another cure or a stage 4 cure to a treatable and curable disease if caught early enough.  When you catch it early enough, be sure to do so while wearing your officially licensed NFL Susan G Komen pink gear, available for a limited time fromt the NFL store at NFL.com.  LIMITED!   

Thank goodness for wrestling...CRAP!

Lingerie Football League

Yesterday, while flipping through channels, something spectacular caught my eye.  I will preface this by saying that Football is the only watchable sport on TV for me currently.  I grew up watching it and enjoy the game.  I may watch 1 game a week currently as I really don’t have time to be sitting around every Sunday.  Point is, I enjoy Football.

To get back on topic, the spectacular something I saw was a new and in some ways more enjoyable way of watching football.  It was the Lingerie Bowl.  As my channel surfing stopped, I at first was not so much looking at the football as I was looking at other things about this brand of sports entertainment.  As I enjoyed the view that was offered to me, I noticed that real football was going on.  Sure it was Arena Football, but it was football.  Hard hits, deep passes, and running backs breaking long runs.  All this while playing with the bare minimum of padding. 

So the uniforms are bra and panties (basically they cover more than your average bikini), hockey helmet with plastic face shield, knee and elbow pads, and shoulder pads.  The breast area, which is where a lot of hits take place, are left exposed.  Likely for the visual appeal.  Looking at the uniforms and the contact, I was quite impressed with these women.  I know what kind of pads that guys wear for football and it is roughly double what these women are wearing. 

I don’t know what kind of drafting or selection process these girls go through, but it was odd that they were all very attractive, but they were still very athletic.  Not that very athletic girls can’t be attractive, but they seem to have the cream of the crop in the sport.  I only watched about 10 minutes but I didn’t really see any sacrifice of athletics for beauty. 

Anyway, The Lingerie Football League is looking good.  You should check it out.