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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. The league, originally named the Lingerie Football League, rebranded in 2013 and shifted away from Super Bowl halftime shows. The Mist won three championships, known as the Legends Cup.
Following the 2019 season, the LFL ceased operations and relaunched as the Extreme Football League (X League), which first played in 2022. All former LFL teams received new brands and the Mist were replaced by the Seattle Thunder.
History
In 2004, the first Lingerie Bowl was played during halftime of Super Bowl XXXVIII between two teams of models and actresses wearing lingerie and minimal protective football gear. The Lingerie Bowl was played for three consecutive years as an alternative Super Bowl halftime event while adding additional teams in 2005 and 2006. The event was then cancelled for various reasons in 2007, 2008, and 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 Super Bowl halftime.
The league launched its inaugural 2009–10 season with ten teams in two conferences with the Seattle Mist in the Western Conference. Each LFL team played the other four teams in its division once. Two of the games were at home and two were on the road. The Mist went 3–1 in its first season, but failed to make it to the playoffs as per the league's tie-breaking procedures.
The 2010–11 LFL season had the same schedule format as the 2009–10 season, but all games aired on MTV2. The Mist went 0–3 in the season and the last game against the Dallas Desire was cancelled due to the potential of inclement weather in the outdoor stadium and neither team winning a game. The following season, the Mist signed Angela Rypien, the daughter of former Washington Redskins' quarterback Mark Rypien, as their starting quarterback. She debuted against the Green Bay Chill on September 30, 2011. The team went 2–2 and missed the playoffs for the third straight season.
The league postponed the 2012–13 season, but the Mist played a game called the Pacific Cup against LFL Canada's BC Angels at the ShoWare Center on December 15, 2012. In January 2013, the LFL rebranded as the Legends Football League, shifted away from the Super Bowl halftime event, and moved the season to a spring and summer schedule starting in March 2013. The Mist qualified for the playoffs for the first time in the 2013 season after an undefeated regular season, but lost to the Chicago Bliss in the conference championship game. The team then missed the playoffs in 2014 after losing to the Los Angeles Temptation in their last game of the season.
In 2015, the team made it back to the playoffs and won their first Legends Cup over the Chicago Bliss 27–21. They lost to the Bliss in the Legends Cup the following season, but went on to win again in 2017 and 2019.
After the 2019 season, the LFL effectively ceased operations and restructured as the X League, replacing the Mist with the Seattle Thunder identity.
Seasons
= 2009–10
=Roster
1 Michele Selover TE
2 Jenna Lynn Bloczynski LB-TE
3 Natalya Snetkova RB
4 Bruna Araujo WR
5 Harper Boiz S
6 Caya Ukkas CB
7 Alicia McLauchlin QB
8 Chelsie Jorensen OL
9 Maggie Pearson C
10 Katie Sheaffer RB
11 Candice Gardiner CB
11 Myschon Bales
12 Shannon Sypher WR
Training Camp gallery
= 2010–11
=Roster
= 2011–12 season
=Roster
= 2013 season
=Roster
= 2014 season
=Roster
= 2015 season
=Roster
= 2016 season
== 2017 season
== 2018 season
== 2019 season
=References
External links
Official website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
- Starbucks
- Sigourney Weaver
- Dreamsnake
- Frappuccino
- Ethos Water
- Daftar lagu rock instrumental
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Seattle Mist
- Angela Rypien
- X League (women's football)
- Legends Cup (LFL)
- Seattle Thunder
- 2019 LFL US season
- Dallas Desire
- Danika Brace
- Chicago Bliss
- Mark Rypien
