Abbotsford’s Lingerie League team hopes fans see beyond uniforms at Saturday …
August 25, 2012 by admin
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Lingerie Football League president Mitch Mortaza met criticism head-on Thursday at a media day for B.C.’s newest pro sports team, the BC Angels, challenging naysayers to watch a game.
“You’ll walk away a fan,� he said as music blared over the speakers at the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre and athletes clad in bikini-style uniforms posed for photos with footballs. Mortaza then went further, possibly hoping to stir up some controversy in the Bible Belt.
“I promise you, the same people who are in church Sunday will be here on Saturday night,� he said.
The Angels play their first game Saturday, only one of two home games before Abbotsford hosts the Lingerie Bowl between Canada’s two top teams Nov. 17.
Mortaza said he has high hopes for the LFL in Canada after three very successful years in the United States.
“I think initially what the women are wearing attracts some people, but once the game starts they literally forget it. If the football wasn’t good, we couldn’t sustain this league.�
Local business owners are also excited by the prospect of a new audience bringing in more revenue.
“Any time we can get community events taking place in Abbotsford to draw people in is a good thing,� said Paul Esposito, owner of Finnegan’s Pub, which sits adjacent to the venue where the Angels will play Saturday. He estimates the establishment will see a 25 per cent increase in business similar to what’s been experienced on Abbotsford Heat game nights.
Even so, Todd Martin, a pastor at Abbotsford’s Harvest Christian Fellowship and sociology professor at Trinity Western University, criticized the league’s portrayal of women.
“These are world class athletes and they don’t need to be pulling their shorts out of their butts to get attention,� he said. The pastor, however, clarified his opposition to the lingerie-clad league wasn’t just rooted in his personal beliefs but also from a sociological standpoint.
“If someone went to this and showed up (to church) on Sunday, it doesn’t mean they’re an evil, rotten person. I’m not against women, I’m not against lingerie and people who are interested in that,� he said. “What my concern is the way it’s packaged in that it’s demeaning to women, whether they acknowledge it or not.
“It buys into a system that women can be turned into sexual objects … and to me, that’s an issue that has to be addressed.â€�
The ever-controversial uniforms for the BC Angels include a sports bra with a laced bikini bottom and a garter. Shoulder pads are strapped over top, but don’t come much lower than the women’s collarbones.
Players interviewed by The Province Thursday had no problem with the uniform style.
“It’s bigger than I thought it would be,� said quarterback Mary Anne Hanson of Coquitlam.
An avid football fan and flag football player, pro football was “the next progression.�
The uniform is secondary to the competition and excitement of playing for a crowd, she said.
“Being in the best shape, you don’t worry so much about what’s on you or not on you.�
Mom of two Darnelle Bernemann said the uniform is “super comfy.�
“It’s nothing less than my bathing suit when I take my kids swimming,� said the Aldergrove guard.
Bernemann has always been athletic, but as a woman, never had an opportunity to play football.
“I just want to play football, and having all of this excitement is a bonus,� she said.
Coach Kevin Snell told the crowd of media he was impressed with the “drive� and talent his players have shown.
“I promised the girls that after their first game the fans will know that they are football players and athletes.�
A stadium employee watching Snell and the team running offensive plays from the sidelines commented to a friend: “I love my job today.�
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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Reign Among Billboard’s ‘The Most Powerful …
August 25, 2012 by admin
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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were comparison as one of Billboard’s “The Most Powerful Music Couples,” confirming a absolute change of their intrigue on a universe and a teens.
Jelena was ranked eighth in “The Most Powerful Music Couples” by Billboard, securing their mark among a energy couples in Hollywood amidst a charge of luminary breakups and divorces.
Much of Bieber and Gomez’s 18-month-old intrigue has been done public, and a immature lovebirds openly voiced their adore to any other, even vouchsafing paparazzi snap their dating scenes.
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In a new months, Selena accompanied her beau’s universe tour, and a integrate snapped photos here and there, display a universe that their adore was not flourishing cold.
On Gomez’s 20th birthday, Justin Bieber gathering her to tears with his debate during an insinuate birthday party. After a whole universe distinguished Gomez’s exit from teenage, a “Baby” thespian duped out $150,000 West Coast Customs Mini Bus, that afterwards gathering divided a integrate and their family and friends to Beverly Hills, to a “most regretful grill in Los Angeles” – Il Cielo.
Selena Gomez’s mom Mandy hosted a cooking for 12 in a private behind square with a building lonesome in rose petals, reported E! Online.
“Selena was usually a doll, so common and sweet,” grill owners Pattie Vericella told a site.
Furthermore, “Justin done a debate that brought tears to Selena,” according to a Hollywood Life source.
On Aug 17, a relocating lorry was speckled outward Selena Gomez’ California home, according to Hollywoodlife, heading to speculations that a 20-year-old starlet might be relocating into Bieber’s mansion.
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s Thriving Music Careers
Combined, Jelena binds over 11.2 million manuscript sales worldwide.
Bieber’s manuscript “Believe” strike a Billboard No.1 usually days after a recover in June. Gomez is operative on her arriving fourth studio album, that will allegedly embody a strain constructed by Bieber.
In an talk with Canada’s New Music Live, will.i.am spoke of a review he had with Bieber on a craft float after a Teen Choice Awards in July.
“He taps me on a shoulder…’Yo, we wish to uncover we this strain we constructed and wrote. I’m unequivocally vehement about it since it’s one of a initial songs we constructed by myself,’” Justin Bieber allegedly told will.i.am, and they listened to a strain together.
“The strain was dope. He was like, ‘Yeah, we wrote it for Selena. It’s great.’ And it was unequivocally awesome. It was, like, really, unequivocally dope.”
The thespian duo’s veteran career can usually get closer and better.
Here is a full list of Billboard’s Top 10 “Most Powerful Celebrity Couples”:
10. SKRILLEX ELLIE GOULDING
9. BLAKE SHELTON MIRANDA LAMBERT
8. JUSTIN BIEBER SELENA GOMEZ
7. ALICIA KEYS SWIZZ BEATZ
6. GWEN STEFANI GAVIN ROSSDALE
5. CHAD KROEGER AVRIL LAVIGNE (who usually recently got engaged)
4. MARIAH CAREY NICK CANNON
3. TIM McGRAW FAITH HILL
2. JAY-Z BEYONCE
1. GARTH BROOKS TRISHA YEARWOOD