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The Extreme Football League (X League) is a women's semi-professional indoor American football league operating in the United States. The league was originally founded in 2009 as the Lingerie Football League (LFL), and later rebranded as the Legends Football League in 2013.
The Legends Cup, originally known as the Lingerie Bowl, was the championship game of the LFL—originally the Lingerie Football League and later the Legends Football League—which operated from 2009 to 2019. It was a game of full-contact American football with female athletes playing seven-on-seven tackle football. [1]
The Lingerie Bowl was then cancelled for various reasons from 2007 through 2009. Niki Gahzian of the Temptation, November 2009 In 2009, the event organizers launched the concept as a full league called the Lingerie Football League (LFL), culminating in the Lingerie Bowl as the championship game between the conference champions, still during the ...
The Seattle Mist were a team in the Legends Football League that were founded as part of the Lingerie Bowl's expansion into a full-fledged league in 2009. They played their home games at the ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington. [1] The league, originally named the Lingerie Football League, rebranded in 2013 and shifted away from Super Bowl ...
The Lingerie Bowl was then cancelled for various reasons from 2007 through 2009. The team was not carried over when the Lingerie Bowl organization formed the Lingerie Football League in 2009. Instead, New York was ostensibly represented by the New York Majesty , even though its home stadium was in Reading, Pennsylvania .
When the operators of the Lingerie Bowl announced the formation of a full season league in September 2008, they included the names of ten teams for the 2009–10 season: the Atlanta Steam, Chicago Bliss, Dallas Desire, Los Angeles Temptation, Miami Caliente, New England Euphoria, Phoenix Scorch, San Diego Seduction, Seattle Mist, and the Tampa Breeze. [3]
The 2010–11 LFL Season was the second season of the Lingerie Football League.The league featured 10 teams in various cities across the United States. For the 2010–11 season, the league launched two expansion franchises in the Orlando Fantasy and Baltimore Charm, while the Denver Dream and New York Majesty suspended operations because of issues with home venues.
The Extreme Football League was announced in December 2019, as a successor to the Legends Football League (LFL). [1] The announcement included the Thunder, [1] a successor to the LFL's Seattle Mist. The X League's 2020 season was postponed, and the league also did not operate during 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.