When Super Bowl MVP quarterback Mark Rypien lost his 3-year-old son, Andrew, he grieved a thousand things, one of which was this: He'd never get to watch him play football.

Fast forward to this coming Friday night, when he will pace, fritter and sweat watching another one of his kids play quarterback -- his daughter.

Six-foot-tall Angela Rypien, 21, is the starting quarterback for the Seattle Mist in something called the Lingerie Football League, a kind of half-strip-show, half-football MTV concoction that actually involves serious football, if you can get past the thongs, garter belts and rug burns.

"I didn't want to see my daughter playing football in, basically, her underwear," says Rypien, now 49. "But she loves it, she's great at it, and it keeps her healthy. It's just unfortunate that the lingerie thing is what the league initially has to do to get it off the ground."

Sure initially.

"The first time my dad saw me in my uniform, it was, well, awkward," says Angela Rypien, who threw for three touchdowns and no interceptions in her lingerie debut, a 42-8 undressing of Green Bay. "But it's nothing different than if we'd gone to the beach that day. Actually, I probably wear more than if I was at the beach."