Lingerie Football League spreads video of its fans brawling in Saskatoon all over the web

If the Lingerie Football League isn't making headlines for mass player resignations, serious safety issues, bizarre e-mails and predictions from its commissioner, it's apparently going to do so for its fans. Saturday's game between the Regina Rage and the Saskatoon Sirens (which finished 26-20 for Regina) wasn't deserving of a single on-field highlight on the (currently-only-in-Canada) league's YouTube page, but the league elected to post video of its fans engaged in a brawl in the stands. According to Howard Fooksman of Gunaxin, this was an in-broadcast strategy, too: "The crew came back from commercial and cut to tape of a vicious brawl in the stands." Here's the video:

Yes, this is a funny highlight (especially for the guy in the Rob Gronkowski jersey; given Gronkowski's partying habits, if this was outside the NFL season, he might be taking part himself), and that's why it's been picked up everywhere from Deadspin to NESN to Terez Owens and even Postmedia's Canada.com portal. We're posting it too, so this isn't an attempt to get high-and-mighty over it. It says a lot about a league when that's the only highlight they choose to put on their YouTube page, though, and even more when commissioner Mitch Mortaza tells NewsTalk 650's Chris Mangatal he sees fights in the stands as a selling point for the league:

Hey, Mortaza's already exploiting his unpaid players for attention, so he might as well exploit his paying customers as well, right? The LFL's quickly turning into a disreputable strip club, with two primary differences. First, strip clubs don't usually advertise fights between their customers as a selling point. Second, strippers actually get paid.