Bringing the WAG Culture to the US (Is Anyone Else Thinking Reality TV?)
By: Laurie | February 9th, 2007
I found this odd website yesterday which lists every single MLS player, alphabetically, and asks for information and photos about their girlfriends, wives, and/or families. (And I wonder if those who reply get bonus points if they send in photos of both wife AND girlfriend?)
My first thought was, This is weird. Stalker weird. And then I decided to give the person the benefit of a doubt and assume that he (or she) is just trying to systematically import the WAG culture from the UK.
What are WAGs, you ask?
What are WAGs? You know! WAGs! Wives and Girlfriends. Those flashy, trashy, always young and beautiful big spenders of their footballers’ money. Posh Spice Beckham being the best-known. Although truth be told, at 32 she’s getting a little long in the tooth to be a member of the club.
One minor problem, though. Footballers Soccer players in the US don’t have bucks. (Unless, of course, you’re Landon Donovan or the soon eventually-to-arrive David Beckham.) In some cases, they really don’t have bucks. In fact, if you’re a rookie “developmental player” (as opposed to a “senior player”) on an MLS roster, you make $975 a month. Which, if you do the math, is $11,700 a year.
Anybody seeing a US WAG Reality TV show here? I’m thinking we could call it, “How to survive as a US WAG.”
They could cram 10 lovely ladies and their men into a double-wide trailer for a crash course in poverty survival. Spam and Top Ramen could sponsor. Paul Gascoigne could do a guest spot where he gives tips on getting the best deals at thrift shops. Posh and Bianca could co-host, spending their time exuding faux sympathy for the poor unwashed and trying not to claw each others’ eyes out. And in the final episode, they’d finally have that cat fight we’ve all been waiting for.
No hair-pulling, ladies!
Oh, all right, go ahead.
Soccer in the US. Gotta love it.
(Thanks to Bob for his input on this post.)
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I can see the next version of Survivor already.
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God, this is brilliant.
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Love the reality TV concept; it really embraces the truer impulses of the medium and it’s something I encourage with my viewership for as long as I can stomach it. We need more shows of this sort.
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