Saturday, January 07, 2006

Soccer and Swinging Don't Mix

This week in Orlando, Florida, young soccer players from the Clearwater Chargers got more than they bargained for when they stayed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport. The team stayed at the $92 a night hotel as they were participating in Disney's Soccer Showcase but got an extra special bonus of witnessing swingers sashaying around the hotel flashing their breasts and buttocks to the urchins and their soccer parents. It seems the hotel had booked the soccer team and their parents and also were hosting a New Years party of 200 swingers.

While I applaud the hotels effort of cross-cultural awareness, it might not have been the best choice to make. One parent described the swingers dress as 'raunchy, despicable, and worse than prostitutes.' Another parent expressed his distress at having to explain hard to answer questions to his two daughters aged 11 and 13. There was no word in the story if any swingers were traumitized by the event.Ain't diversifacation grand.

14 comments:

Rocky said...

I suppose the soccer group and the swingers at least had the common ground of probably having scored on a "header" that weekend.

Naiad said...

Well said Laurie. :)

Johnny Wadd said...

I myself was once traumitized by witnessing a bunch of swingers frolic about at a club i was working at. Believe me, nobody wants to see that.

Metal Mark said...

Somehow I am getting images of nude swingers playing soccer and it is a very strange image. Although nude soccer would allow some more body parts with which to bump the ball with.

Phred said...

That is a very good attitude, Ann.
Like the guy said..'' Why can`t we all just get along''?

Shay said...

parents just need to chill more, kids just don't understand the same things as adults so the kids prolly weren't traumatized at all!

:P fuzzbox said...

rocky: Header that is good.

laurie: I'm going with B.

naiad: Might I say, I love your new user pic.

mic: I will certainly take your word for it. I have never really seen the swinger scene except for episodes of Real Sex and those seem to attract some scary individuals.

metal mark: The only scarier thing would be nude flag football. Where would the stick the flags.

ann: As always you are the voice of reason.

phred: You would say it to after the ass whuppin' he got.

shay: Kids are resiliant but inquisitive. The parents were probably just upset because they were uncomfortable answering questions that they were unprepared for.

Dear Jane... said...

why don't my kid's soccer teams go on field trips like that?

jane said...

Oh my gosh, that sounds like an absolute nightmare!

:P fuzzbox said...

dear jane: None of my field trips are ever like that either.

jane: It boggles the mind doesn't it.

:P fuzzbox said...

foxxxy: It was a New Years Party so they might have dressed a little more flamboyant I suppose.

Andi said...

I think it depends on the occasion & the habits of the crowd....having known lots of swingers in many towns...I am not even close to being one myself by the way.

At that age I would have been really shocked to see any kind of private parts. I also did not even know what a swinger was at that age.

Andi said...

I would like to think that some of the swingers would have covered up when they realized that their were children who were not knowledgeable about this type of thing around.

:P fuzzbox said...

butterfly: You would think that some of the swingers probably had kids of their own. I am sure there would have been other stories to tell had they commented.