Jon Solomon (a true lover of high-quality sporting events) calls our attention the forthcoming Lingerie Bowl, and the organizers’ efforts to raise funds for Tsunami Relief.
Horizon Productions is planning to donate a portion of the pay-per-view proceeds from this year’s Lingerie Bowl broadcast during the Super Bowl halftime show to tsunami survivors.
Though that sounds like a slightly better deal for the tsunami survivors than say, donating Lawrence Taylor, surely those affected by this tragedy are encouraged enough to know that the Lingerie Bowl is back?
If you read the Lingerie Bowl’s press release (and you should!), it is amazing how they use press quotes that were obviously less than complimentary in context to their attempted advantage.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-03-2005/0002762120&EDATE
Last year’s Lingerie Bowl broadcast was the most talked about event
leading up to Super Bowl XXXVIII. In fact, industry insiders and several media
outlets reported that the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” was a direct
result of the NFL, MTV and CBS wanting to compete with the Lingerie Bowl’s
national media attention. Los Angeles Times’ TJ Simers said, “Who knew the
lengths the NFL would go to sabotage the Lingerie Bowl” and New York Daily
News’ Mike Raissmann added, “What the NFL did was fight salaciousness with
salaciousness.” Last year’s overall success established the halftime
alternative as a staple of Super Bowl Sunday festivities as well as becoming
part of American POP culture.
Jon
Is Mike Raissman related to Bob?
Just like George and Peter Vescey, except they’re the same guy.