from www.tmz.com – Michael Jackson’s 13-year-old football playing daughter is being recruited to be the face of an organization that swears it’s helping break down barriers for women … problem is, it’s the Lingerie Football League.

TMZ has learned … the LFL took notice when Paris Jackson became the first female in her L.A. private school to join the flag football team earlier this month … and fired off a letter to the MJ Estate in the hopes PJ would be the spokesperson for the league’s “youth program.”

In the letter, obtained by TMZ, LFL Commissioner Mitchell S. Mortaza acknowledges a “lack of options for competitive female football” … and says the league will “be introducing youth clinics across the country to introduce the game of football to young ladies at an earlier stage in life.”

Mortaza adds, “We … would like to invite Paris to become the spokesperson for the LFL’s youth program and perhaps start training for a future football career in the LFL when she reaches the age of 18.”

Mitchell makes a good point about the lack of football options for girls, but is a league that parades adult women around in their underwear really the right fit for mentoring KIDS????

We gotta ask …