here we go. are you ready? take it away ♪ ♪ it is the night my body's weak i'm on the run no time to sleep ♪ ♪ because you've got to run ♪ i've got to ride ride like the wind to be free again ♪ >> we all want that. ♪ and i've got such a long way to go >> such a long way to go. such a long way to go ♪ ♪ to make it to the border of mexico ♪ ♪ so i'll ride ♪ >> yeah that sounds good. like the wind ride like the wind ♪ >> you're nothing like ♪ i was born the son of a lawless man always spoke my mind the wind for those who don't know. >> whoa. that sound dangerous. yeah. ♪ ride like the wind ♪ and i've got such a long way to go such a long way to go ♪ ♪ to make it to the border of mexico ♪

♪ so i'll ride like the wind ride like ♪ ♪ the wind gonna ride like the wind ♪ >> oh, yeah. it's getting hot in here! it's a hot wind! is that smoke? is there a fire in here? by the way, i want to ask one question -- is that atmospheric smoke, or is there a fire in here? oh, well, it's too late now. let's get back to the song. ♪ accused and tried and told to hang i was nowhere ♪ ♪ in sight when the church bells rang ♪ ♪ never was the kind to do as i was told gonna ride like the wind before i get old ♪

♪ it is the night my body's weak i'm on the run no time to sleep ♪ ♪ i've got to ride ride like the wind to be free again ♪ ♪ and i've got such a long way to go such a long way to go ♪ ♪ to make it to the border of mexico ♪ ♪ so i'll ride ride like the wind ride like the wind ♪ ♪ and i've got such a long way to go such a long ♪ ♪ way to go to make it to the border of mexico ♪ ♪ so i'll ride ride like the wind ride like the wind ♪ ♪ gonna ride like the wind ♪ like a wind >> you feel that, ladies, that's me. okay, that was creepy. i smoked a funny cigarette with christopher cross backstage. let's just say the filter is

off! anyway, i feel like i've gone on too long. so i am going to shut up. let's have christopher cross take us out! whoa. whoa. christopher cross, everyone! ride like the wind! ♪ ♪ tonight on "nightline" -- they have day jobs, for these tan and tough female football players, the fun begins after hours on the field.

they do everything the boys do, with a lot less protection and clothing. how risky or risque is it? lions and tigers and -- lilogers. oh, my. a designer cat taking over zoos and homes. some look cute and cuddly at first, but feline fusions can turn massive and daring pet owners may be pushing their luck. >> and a bank robbery leads to the killing of a police officer. now a massive manhunt under way for this man, caught on tape. and there might be others still on the loose.

good evening, thank you for joining us. this is a big weekend for

football, with college bowl games and the final regular season battles in the nfl. but there is another league that is shaking things up this season. this one involves tough female athletes, but instead of suiting up, they're stripping down. abc's juju chang gets up close and very personal for another look at lingerie football. >> reporter: they're tanned, toned and just as tough as the guys. no these aren't pro athletes. they're the girls next door, some even moms. >> i feel really good. i feel like we have the momentum. >> reporter: it is halftime in a football locker room. >> sit down and shut the [ bleep ] up! >> reporter: though they're ahead their coach is not at all pleased. >> get yourself together. and they're kicking your [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the biggest compliment he can pay the lady is treat them like the guys. >> the worst defense in the

[ bleep ] league. you guys are much bet r thter t this. >> reporter: welcome to the big leagues, legends football league where ladies dressed in nothing but a bra and bootie shorts, play football, ground stumping, body bruising football. the chicago blitz is part of what league pro moltemoters saye fastest growing sports franchise. the lfl has a chorus of critics who accuse them of objectifying women to sell tickets. it the sport super sexy or just plain sexist? most football training doesn't include manicures. what do you think of krilt crity you are exploiting skin? >> i get why people feel that way. we are serious. just the costume. >> reporter: she plays defensive tackle. >> she chases her down. >> reporter: none of the players get paid. her day job -- selling life insurance. her brother simeon rice played

12 years in the nfl and won a super bowl. ali alberts its the wide receiver. and a dentist. her specialty, periodenture. and hits. >> you are putting yourself at physical risk. >> you have suffered concussions, you are not compensated. >> i'm most concerned about my right hand. if i break a finger on my right hand. i can't do dentistry. >> the tight end, shrugs off the wrists. >> tell her about -- >> reporter: as a single mom she wants her 7-year-old jackson to see her as tough. >> go, ma! >> reporter: what message are you sending your son by playing football? >> don't be afraid of anything. people ask why, why not? i love sports. i love being part of a team. >> it is 8:00 a.m., saturday morning, game day. i joined the lady of the chicago

bliss on a road trip to do battle with their midwest rivals, the green bay chill. >> okay, now. >> reporter: they have a marathon ride to green bay ahead of them. the team should spend the ride mapping out their game strategy. but it is hard to focus. this bus feels like a super charged sorority house. >> i like the down time. this is a little bit much for me. >> reporter: after years of playing in lingerie, it is clear these women are comfortable in their own skin. wardrobe malfunctions and all. >> yeah, i definitely have my top. >> open. >> yeah. >> after i scored. after i scored. you gnomknow? then i just gave it a little shake. did you like that. you want to watch game film and get back into football mode. just chill. >> football mode.

>> the bus finally arrives in green bay. and i have become their mascot. now it is time to get suited up and dolled up. >> looks good. the locker room quickly turns into a beauty salon. >> one girl did my makeup. one girl did my eyelashes. >> put my socks in here. i did that. >> nice. >> and minutes before game time, emotions run high. >> just the team i pick to go to war with. let's do it for us. let's do it for our fans. >> as the teams face off it appears to be more performance than play. >> and we are back for this monster midwestern match up. >> the chicago bliss start off strong. but the rough and tumble of the game is not for the faint of heart. during her first outing, ali, the dentist, got knocked out cold.

>> absolute lely destroys ali alberts. >> you have spent hundred of thousand, training your brain then you go get your brain scrambled. >> that was the main argument my family had. something you have worked your whole life toward. why would you do this? my answer is i can't not diet. -- do it. i love it. >> reporter: although the league requires these women have insurance, the league doesn't pay for it. they're playing on a field half the size of the nfl. but the fear of concussions is ever-present. especially since they're wearing almost no padding and tackling with hockey helmets. are you concerned they don't have enough helmet protection? >> there is a reason why the nhl has far less sustained, in the hl, versus nfl. once you put them in a football helmet often times used as a weapon. they tend to spear one another. these women are smart. if they've felt they weren't

protected out here they wouldn't come back. >> reporter: although there are higher risks to playing with little padding, the commissioner says they do it all for the love of the game. he makes no apologies for the league's business model. that sex sells. >> we have a league of tom bradys, and david beckhams, that's the business model. we are honest, of front about it. to a degree that helped in the marketing of the sport. >> reporter: in the second half of the game, the green bay chill mount a come back. >> are you kidding me? are you kidding me? >> reporter: in the end the chicago bliss prevail. 27-18. victory is sweet. >> we have successful women on our team. we have mothers on our team. i mean we are not just football players. so much more. >> with their skimpy outfits. and trash talking ways. these athletes may just be the unlikely vanguard for the new

feminine mystique. >> this game really lived up to the billing. >> next week. l.a. >> l.a.! >> reporter: for "nightline," juju chang, green bay, wisconsin. >> those are serious hits. and in australia, launched, and gearing up to hit europe in 2014. what do you think of lingerie football? too risky or risque enough? tweet us at "nightline." next, what do you get when you cross an indoor cat with a big outdoor cat? could this be a dangerous new trend? ♪

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it is the latest pricey designer accessory, a cat. but not your ordinary fur ball. a frankencat, to be precise, cross breeds bringing together nice kitty with big wild kitty. for the pet owner who has everything. these custom-designed felines can be very cute when they're young. but now some states are scrambling to ban a booming business that is spreading from zoos to homes. here is abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: there is a new obsession, clawing its way into american life, exotic cats. from designer breeds like the o toyger, teddy bear soft, to servals, wildcats descended from cheetahs, and sasavannahs, a

hybrid. just last month. a male lion and female liger, hybrid of a lion/tiger had cubs in an oklahoma zoo. their litter, three little, liligers. liligers are no house cats. this fee lean cline can be 800 . proud owners display them all over youtube. these exotic cats can be controversial. some say the aggressive ones can kill. kitties that can grow two to three times larger than a house cat. that crunching sound is a pretty good sign of how closely related servals are to the big bat cousins. >> i want to ask every fwid sbo stay three feet away from the cages. >> well he is part bobcat -- >> reporter: a sanctuary for

cats big and small. those abandoned a, abused or retired from breeding. after a few minutes here, you begin to understand why these servals might have been abandoned. frosty is 30 pound of pure wild. >> wow! >> reporter: how bad is a temperament on a cat like this? >> a cat can take down a deer, child, pet, neighbor's pets, children. they spray bucket loads of urine all over everything. >> spray urine. sounds like a great pet. spray urine. eat your children. doesn't word spread that these aren't the best animals to have in your house as pets. >> people want to have something different. they want to have the biggest, the baddest, the most exotic. >> remember the crunch? a serval's bite creates 1,000 pounds of pressure a square inch. compare that to a human jaw that chomps down at 100 pound a square inch. >> three feet, right? >> yes. >> this is senior animal keeper,

and in the bucket, delicacy, raw, bone in chicken necks. >> nice catch. >> reporter: are they any more dangerous than other animals you have here? >> they're all equally dangerous. some on the more on the kill side than the injure side. >> some are more dangerous on the kill than maim side? that's nice. would you prefer maiming to killing, personally? >> i stay far enough away. i don't have to worry about that. >> reporter: now it is my turn. big cats. big teeth. and big cost. >> you are going to come to me. >> toyger, hybrid cats, tiger stripes in a cute package. the toy in toyger. here in california, some cats fetch as much as a car. >> soap this is a little girl. in fact, designer cats like this are so popular, there are

waiting lists to get them. sometimes, dozens of people deep lasting months. >> hi, stephanie.troduce you. they came from chicago to see our kitties, toygers. >> they've expect seven sets of customers for three kittens. a market so hot, the seller can afford to be picky. >> we can afford to look at every last person. we only breed, 20, 25 cats a year. you can see them right now. >> they're so cute. >> reporter: among cats most en vogue is the savannah, cross breed between a serval, frosty, and regular house cat, tabby. savannahs grow 2 1/2 times larger than a regular house cat. nine states have banned sa van naz, others require permits. this past summer, a 25-pound savannah cat found roaming the streets of detroit kept residents on edge. it made headlines in the detroit

froi free press. awe off in the zoo. >> bigger than my dog. >> the thing walking right behind us, literally. >> sadly, four days later, the paper reported the search for the savannah was over. he was found shot dead and thrown ein a garbage can. >> once the kittens turned into wildcats. they started returning them. and the breeder eventually opened her sanctuary. >> to me one of the biggest problems isn't what happens to the faly, but what happens to that cat? as soon as the person wants to get rid of the animal if they take them to the shelter, the shelter knows this animal is wild, will never find a home. they have to oout nitz euthaniz. >> they were raise nude gets. purposely bred and put together -- they were raised together, purposely bred and put together with the ligers.

we thought we would have to travel deep into the jungle to find one, but we found one here in south carolina. >> hercules. you good boy. stretch them out. out. >> reporter: a fitting name for a kid whose father is a lion, and mother a tiger. remember the liliger cubs? hercules trainer, doc angel points out he has the the stripes and spots of young lions but doesn't have a mane. at 922 pounds, the world's largest living cat by the guinness book of records. these mixes happen naturally says doc. he doesn't use artificial insemination. but they almost never happen in the wild. even so, doc defend his creation from those who think might not fit the natural order of things. hybrids have a place in present day. their real place is awe and wonder. which i hope leads to a place in

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when a cop is shot it is very personal for the local police force. so when a mississippi officer was killed and another critically wounded before christmas, more than 100 members of law enforcement worked through the holiday with one major clue. surveillance video. and tonight, a break in the case. here is abc's ron claiborne. ♪ >> reporter: it was supposed to be a night of peace, but for the people of tupalo, mississippi, christmas has turned into a season of sorrow. ♪ it started with a bank robbery monday, and it ended with a police officer gunned down, his partner critically wounded. authorities launching a nationwide manhunt, the fbi tracking down leads from as far away as chicago. they're looking for this man, captured on surveillance camera