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[quote=Anonymous]What is it with sports groupies getting a kind of weird glamor these days? I've discovered a site called Baller Alert where women basically plot how to get a night with an NBA/NFL star athlete, how to get pregnant by him, how get your money's worth out of being a "jump-off" - and that if you want marriage you should apparently date the most stupid athletes of all, with a criminal past and slow, drug-addled brains, because they won't figure out you're a groupie apparently. Like, these women have been on Anderson Cooper and they get reality TV shows like Basketball Wives and it's practically a legitimate career for a certain kind of women.

Doesn't only happen in the pro basketball/football world either. There's this blog called Chasing the Jersey written by a young woman who was a "laxtitute", or lacrosse groupie, when she was at the University of Maryland. She proudly distinguishes herself from the groupies at Baller Alert by saying she never wanted any money despite sleeping with the entire men's lacrosse team at University of Maryland a lot of visiting college lacrosse teams, but it's clear that she desperately seeks validation in other forms from the men that she thinks have the highest social value: WASPy, preppy, wealthy lax players. This girl has a book deal out of it.

When did being a groupie become something you can make money off of? When I was in college, back in the Stone Age, this was something that people looked down on. My DH played lacrosse and I have never known him to have hung out with such trashy, desperate women (then again, I doubt he tells me everything that went on during his bachelor lacrosse days).[/quote]

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