{"id":953,"date":"2009-07-16T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/slideshow-lingerie-football-team-has-training-camp-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T00:40:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T07:40:31","slug":"slideshow-lingerie-football-team-has-training-camp-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/slideshow-lingerie-football-team-has-training-camp-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Slideshow: Lingerie Football team has training camp in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Mist<\/a>, a team of the Lingerie Football League<\/a>, had a training camp at Kent’s ShoWare Center this week, which culminated in a media day July 15 with a 7-on-7, full-contact team scrimmage. The scrimmage is a final test for many players as they try to make the 2009\/2010 Seattle Mist roster.<\/p>\n

A form of adult entertainment where women athletes play full-contact football in pads and lingerie, the Lingerie Football League has developed franchises across the country. The Seattle Mist, which will call the ShoWare Center home in its first-ever season, will have its opener Sept. 11 in Kent, versus the San Diego Seduction.<\/p>\n

The Mist will play one other game at the ShoWare Center for their season: on Jan. 1, against the Dallas Desire.<\/p>\n

Their two other games are away: Oct. 9 against the Denver Dream; and Nov. 27 versus the Los Angeles Temptation.<\/p>\n

Fans also can will be able to watch LFL Friday Night Football action in 1080i high-definition on KMYQ (MyNetwork Television) Channel 22, 10 & 110.<\/p>\n

The local presence of the franchise has generated cheers as well as jeers.<\/p>\n

“I cannot WAIT! Have my season tickets already!! GO MIST. Anybody planning on tailgating, my buddies and I are getting there EARLY!” one reader wrote in an online comment to a Mist story on the Kent Reporter Web site.<\/p>\n

“It’s an insult to women and to Kent. Please send these women to play their “games” in a place where they have the naked pole dancers and topless women. Not in Kent,” wrote Kent resident Pat Stevens, in a letter to the editor in April.<\/p>\n

Like them or not, the Seattle Mist are calling Kent home.<\/p>\n

“Seattle Mist fans will make ShoWare Center one of the toughest environments in the league for visiting teams,” said Mitchell S. Mortaza, founder and chairman of Lingerie Football League.<\/p>\n

For tickets, go to the ShoWare Center Web site.<\/a><\/p>\n

To learn about the team, go to the Seattle Mist Web site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Mist, a team of the Lingerie Football League, had a training camp at Kent’s ShoWare Center this week, which culminated in a media day July 15 with a 7-on-7, full-contact team scrimmage. The scrimmage is a final test for many players as they try to make the 2009\/2010 Seattle Mist roster. A form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}