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Brock Huard wants to put more clothes on the beach volleyball Olympians

Aug 9, 2012, 1:26 PM | Updated: 6:15 pm

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United States’ Misty May-Treanor, left, and Kerri Walsh Jennings clad in “teen-weeny bikinis,” celebrate after defeating China in their semifinal women’s beach volleyball match. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

The ladies on the beach volleyball team are known for their athletic prowess and their teeny weeny bikinis.

“If you want to be the lingerie football league, be the lingerie football league,” says 710 ESPN’s Brock Huard.

The comment prompted Dori to bring Brock on the show and ask him when he became a “prude.”

The tops are essentially “pasties” according to Brock. While the volleyball athletes in this year’s Olympics have the option to wear different uniforms – spandex and tops or bikinis – Brock has a theory as to why they’re showing skin.

Primetime television.

The hypothesis isn’t something Dori is ready to get behind. He doesn’t compare the beach bathing suits to pasties, but to a sports bra. He actually sees a hindrance to Brock’s wardrobe suggestion on the sandy court.

“If you get sand on your skin, you know what you do? You brush it off and you’re sand free. You know what happens when you get sand under your spandex, your Lycra, or whatever you’re asking them to wear? The sand stays under the spandex or Lycra and grinds against your skin.”

The beach volleyball players themselves have talked about their look on the court and are aware of the sexual appeal. But what’s the problem with people first being attracted to the game because of the bikinis, if they stay for the athletics?

The match for the gold medal pinned the United States against itself, meaning Americans were guaranteed to take home both the silver and gold medal in the sport’s final match-up in London.

So when Brock wonders why NBC isn’t televising the warmer dressed Americans playing indoor volleyball, Dori and producer Jake have the answer: These bikini clad volliers are the best in the world.

That didn’t change Brock’s mind. “It’s about the gold medal, why do they have to wear such teeny, teeny, teeny clothes?”

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