Lingerie Bowl V: All undressed and no where to go
To the objectivications of viewers everywhere, the notorious Lingerie Bowl -- which throws women in bikinis out onto a shortened field to play a little tackle football as a pay-per-view alternative to the annual Super Bowl -- is again a no-show, promoters confirmed to the East Valley (Ariz.) Tribune.
The L.A.-based Horizon Productions, which brought the game to new lows in 2004 and managed to pull off an event at the Coliseum for three years, "unfortunately ... wasted too much time in Scottsdale in trying to attain a permit thus limiting our possibilities in neighboring cities,” company spokesman Chris Martin told the newspaper.
According the preliminary plans, Jim McMahon was coaching the Western Conference team, Brian Bosworth was coaching the Eastern Conference team, William Perry was going to be there in some capacity, Kato Kaelin was produred to be a sideline reporter and supermodel Joanna Krupa was the game's "hostess."
Promoters pulled out in October trying to get the city of Scottsdale to approve it, but then they called a Jan. 7 press conference to say the game would still go on somewhere else in the area. But that press conference didn't happen.
The were still calling this Lingerie Bowl V, even though the 2007 Lingerie Bowl IV was also canceled for dubious reasons.
Martin did tell the paper that a location has already been secured for Lingerie Bowl VI in Tampa, Fla., the site of the 2009 Super Bowl XLIII.
And at least the company managed to get out a 2008 calendar to mark the days leading up to when it bails out again:
