Kansas City Tease - Close the Book?

It seems like forever since I started tracking the development of a female arena football team for the Kansas City sports market.  At first it was going to be the Sugar and Spice League, then later it was the development of a new league called the Ladies Arena Football League.  But the LAFL season schedule is up and there are only four teams on the schedule, none of which are from Kansas City.

I've caught a lot of flack about the the promise of the Kansas City Tease.  I have looked at the available information and quickly found myself thinking that this team would not come together.  Club appearances, the photographs were more a "sex sells" approach and "wanna be celebrity" presentation than that of a group of women who were serious about playing football.  I have no doubt that there were a few ladies involved in the Tease that wanted to play football, but most of them looked like they should be dancing at one of the top level strip clubs here in KC.  In fact, the people behind the team were coming back as having a past in the entertainment business not the sports business.

Well, its likely over.  Check their website and there is no indication that the team is any closer to competing than they were a year ago.  Their calendar ends with one practice entry in June, and then nothing.  Facebook, no posts since January.  All indications are that the Kansas City Tease have fallen apart.

Now, I would love to see a respectable Ladies Arena Football Team come to Kansas City.  The problem is that whoever leads this endeavor has to be serious about Arena Football, not using the ladies to draw men, and  certain ladies, into a group of clubs that the promoters and owners are connected with.  The Lingerie Football League has gained enough respect to get themselves broadcast on MTV2 in the past, and when I first saw the talk of a ladies team, hoped that it was a LFL team.  But there is this little problem with support for teams like this.  Kansas City just isn't an Arena Football town, especially with the history of the Kansas City Brigade, the complaints that arose when the team moved to the new Sprint Center, and now the far from impressive Kansas City Command.

So, I am closing the book on the Kansas City Tease.  It was a nice idea, but all appearances are that it's over.

Kansas City Tease - A Tease?

Finally, the Lady Arena Football League has posted their 2012 game schedule.  Problem is, the Kansas City Tease are not on it.  In fact, the LAFL has only four teams playing in 2012 according to the schedule that they have posted on their official website (http://www.ladyarenafootballleague.com).  When you go to the Kansas City Tease Facebook Page, well, no one is really talking, its like the team has gone back into hibernation.  Their official Web Site (http://www.kctease.com) offers NOTHING in any information for this team.  So, what is it?

I had a man come in and say that he has watched them practicing.  I see on their facebook page that one other person "misses" seeing them practice.  So there was an attempt to start a team in Kansas City, but after two years of 'trying' to start a team, if they haven't figured it out yet, then maybe someone else needs to try.  So much for my dismay with the KC Tease.

What of the LAFL?  There are four teams scheduled to start competing on May 19.  Are they going to stream their games via Ustream or another service?  I would love to see a really good Female Football game, I have seen hope in the LFL, break a little further away from the pubescent wet dream sales pitch and get down to real Arena football and you would have a die hard fan here.  But let's quick teasing and let's get this going, because the Arena Football League is actually losing fans due to their ... lack of real talent and entertainment value.

Kansas City Tease? Apparently just that, a tease.

I guess we're saying goodbye to the Leather and Lace Football League and hello to the Sugar and Spice Football League?  Don't ask me what happened, all I know is that neither league, the LLFL or the SSFL seem to have much than a cheap, thin web presence and a facebook page that says little to nothing about the league, the teams, or their schedule.

The Kansas City Tease is no better.  I've been to their Facebook page and what I'm seeing is a threat that the League is going to kick off in May, but its surrounded by a lot of "come see the girls at a club call Luna.  I also took a moment and researched the Sugar and Spice Football League, which the KC Tease is now supposed to be a member of, and there is absolutely NOTHING about the league other than a page that shows the league logo, and several teams, none of which are the KC Tease.

Let's be real.  Its going to take a lot of work for the ladies to prove that this isn't some prick-tease in regards to Arena Football.  We've been watching for sometime, waiting for some real information about the team, about where they are going to play, about when their season begins.  When we find information about the league that the KC Tease is looking to be a part of, you find yourself sitting back shaking your head thinking that this is the Junior Varsity High School Team if the Lingerie Football League was the Pros.  At least the girls in the LFL can play football, and until the KC Tease actually do something other than show up at some club as eye-candy, I am not going to take them seriously.  So, no more about this ... tease.