Forget the Starting Eleven Girls. This was better.

One streaker at a ball game: A little unusual, yes. It may get a mention on the evening news. But it's not unheard of.
But four streakers? All wearing matching flesh-colored thongs? And not one news outlet speaks a word?
Something is up, my friends.
The streakers provided the only entertainment an otherwise dismal match Saturday evening between the Kansas City Wizards and Chivas USA.
It happened near the end of the half-time break. A few players--possibly reserves--were out on the field, kicking the ball around when suddenly this guy rips off an obviously tear-away outfit and starts running. After watching him for a while we notice there's another nearly nude guy sprinting from another part of the pitch, and then another one at the far end. I think there were four in all, but there may have been just three. Honestly, it's hard to concentrate on the numbers when there's a bevy of jockstrap-clad fitties capering like wood nymphs just in front of you.
Here's the YouTube video, from a vantage not too far from where we sat in the Cauldron.




As streaking goes, one is pretty much the usual number in 2010. And loincloths? Pfft. Exposure is the whole idea.
So an apparently organized streak with such consideration for children in the stands is unusual. It should have merited at least a couple of words from the local news. But nothing on the channel we checked. And no mention in the Star. Very strange unless...
The whole thing was a stunt for an MTV show.
That's the buzz on the web-o-sphere and it does make sense. Apparently streaking at a sports event is on the to-do-before-you-die list at The Buried Life--a show which, coincidentally, has a cast of four young men. Here's a link to their Facebook page, where their friends congratulate them.
It also begs the question: How much did the Wizards front office participate in this? Did they seek it out for the publicity when the show airs, or were they as surprised as everyone else?
In any case, it was an evening brightener as Kansas City slogged through the match against Chivas, who hadn't won a game in two months. The score? You don't even want to know. The Wizards are going to have to tighten it up to keep from being humiliated in the friendly against Manchester United on the 25th.
But I forgot. This is an optimism blog. So forget the depressing score. Thanks, MTV.

PS Yes, I have been gone for a while. More just as soon as I get caught up from a great trip.