WINDSOR, Ontario -- As one hand holds up her golden blond hair and the other hand lifts her cheerleader's skirt up over her stomach, year-old "Brandy" -- lips covered in a shiny pink gloss, eyes draped in deep blue shadow -- kneels on a white-sheeted bed and looks straight at you.
A football is tucked between her legs. A Super Bowl XL logo is draped across the front of her skirt. In this and seven other provocatively posed cheerleader photos on her Web site, Brandy gets her message across loud and clear: "Call me. Oh, and do it soon. As her Web site says, "Remember, to guarantee your time with me, I suggest you pre-book.
Super Bowl week is going to be an especially busy week, so I highly suggest booking early. Brandy is one of about licensed, regulated professional escorts in this border town, which sits less than a mile from the hub of Super Bowl XL, Detroit's GM Renaissance Center.
She, like most of her competition, expects Super Bowl fans to cross the Detroit River in droves this weekend, looking for things they just can't readily get on the American side of the Ambassador Bridge: Cuban cigars, all-nude strip clubs, a year-old drinking age and legalized prostitution. You hear horror stories about escorts in the States: guys getting ripped off, guys given the runaround, girls not showing up. There's a bunch of bad reviews out there. Let them come over here, get their money's worth and take full advantage of what we have to offer.
Since it became a national "happening," Super Bowl weekend has always offered its share of racier diversions for those fans who walk on the wilder side. But until this year, those diversions have never been so close, so out in the open and so Not that everyone in Windsor is necessarily proud of it. Windsor has more to offer than its seamy underbelly, city leaders say.
