We asked Renee how her family and friends felt about her Playboy pictorial. "My family loves it," she explained. "They're very crazy. They're all for Playboy. I've been modeling since I was 13."
Though she's always been athletic, and has long played basketball, Renee says that she knew nothing about football until she joined the LFL. Now she's serious about it and doesn't like it that people have misconceptions about the players. "We do get a playbook. We are out there in less than an NFL uniform, but we're hitting just as hard," she says.
"These are real athletes and we're very, very competitive."
Dallas hosts fake Wing Bowl
Three-time Wing Bowl champion Joey Chestnut and Sonya "Black Widow" Thomas, the only female winner of the annual 610 WIP event, do battle in Dallas Feb. 1 at the Wingstop World Wing-Eating championship.
Those eaters, along with Royersford's Bob "Notorious B.O.B" Shoudt, a vegetarian who eats meat only in competition, and Chicago's Pat Bertoletti, who will also compete, are also past Wing Bowl contestants and are all members of the International Federation of Competitive Eating.
IFOCE's subsidiary, Major League Eating, is staging the Dallas event, and that is likely why, as WIP claims, the IFOCE asked its eaters to skip Wing Bowl. In previous years the IFOCE gave Wing Bowl a "provisional sanction," IFOCE founder George Shea has explained.
WIP program director Andy Bloom says that he's not bothered by the Dallas contest "Wing Bowl is going to be a packed nuthouse on Feb. 4," he says. "We've done it with professional eaters and nonprofessional eaters."
Meanwhile, only a few Wing Bowl tickets remain and are available online at comcasttix.com.
Solomonov takes on Garces
