Saturday, April 13, 2013
The women's football team has its home opener Saturday at Gwinnett Arena in Duluth.
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Saturday, April 13
Gwinnett, women's pro football officially arrives in the area Saturday April 13). The Atlanta Steam has its home opener in the Gwinnett Arena (game time, 8 p.m.) when it plays the Omaha Heart. Both are first-year teams in the Legends Football League. The league was called the Lingerie Football League until a recent rebranding that included "performance wear" for uniforms. For the Steam, it also will be a chance for redemption. Atlanta lost its season opener 48-0 at Jacksonville in March. According to an article on lfl.com, the Steam players may have felt overwhelmed in the opener. Quarterback Brittany Morgan said in the article, “The game was a challenge, but it allowed us to take in the speed of the game and the intensity.” She went on to…
Saturday, February 23, 2013
The women's football league team, which debuts at the Gwinnett Arena in Duluth in April, has been predicted to go winless in 2013.
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Saturday, February 23
The debut of the women's Legends Football League in Gwinnett is less than two months away. Already, the Atlanta Steam is practicing -- and chafing under the prediction of an 0-4 season in 2013. According to an article in lfl360.com, linebacker Adrian Purnell of the Jacksonville Breeze talked some smack on Commissioner’s Corner: “…everyone thinks we are looking forward to the Atlanta game this year because everyone is talking a big game about them. (They) are the least of my worries right now.” Literally days later, “The List” guaranteed Atlanta to go 0-4. Atlanta wide receiver Krista Cross’ response was “{forget} the world. They got it backwards, 4-0.” Wide receiver Holly Oakes stated,: “While 0-4 is totally not going to happen, it …
Friday, January 11, 2013
Get ready, Gwinnett. The women-only league re-brands itself as Legends and introduces 'peformance wear' for the players.
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Friday, January 11
The women-only football league that plans to debut in April in the Gwinnett Arena in Duluth has a new name and new uniforms. The Lingerie Football League announced Wednesday (Jan. 9) in Los Angeles that it now is calling itself the Legends Football League. And its uniforms will now be "performance wear," instead of the lingerie that characterized its previous years. "This is the next step in the maturation of our now global sport. While the Lingerie Football League name has drawn great media attention, allowing us to showcase the sport to millions, we have now reached a crossroad of gaining credibilty as a sport or continuing to be viewed as a gimmick," said Mitchell Moraza, LFL founder and chairman, in a press release. What do you think …
