NFL Wants Players to Miss This Boat : Super Bowl: League officials issue warnings about casino cruise with strippers.

Ten days before Super Bowl XXIX, the NFL has issued a stern advisory to current and some former league players: No Jell-O wrestling. Easy on the hot co-ed bubble baths. And absolutely no gambling promotions.

As for the nude massages, naked limbo contests and lap dancing?

Forget it.

The warnings were prompted by a South Florida strip bar magnate’s promotion of a one-night casino cruise said to be featuring 50 professional football players, 200 naked showgirls and an orgy of wrestling, bathing and sexual gymnastics in a high-seas event touted as “the most erotic party of Super Bowl week.”

The cost: $750-$2,000 a ticket.

“Overall, this event would not be consistent with the image we’re trying to portray,” said NFL spokesman Greg Aiello.

He added that the league security office was contacting current players thinking of being aboard the cruise vessel to remind them of the NFL’s rule forbidding players from promoting gambling.

Organizers of next Thursday’s Platinum Plus Gentleman’s Casino Cruise have said that former NFL stars signed on for the outing include Jim Brown, Lawrence Taylor and Roger Craig, along with pro basketball Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain.

Aiello said Thursday that Taylor, a former all-pro linebacker and a game-day studio analyst for TNT, had decided to cancel his reservation.

Of greatest concern, say NFL officials, is that the cruise is a gambling junket being run by Michael J. Peter, who in May was indicted on charges that he skimmed profits and taxes from one of 50 strip clubs he owns to pay off a member of the Gambino organized crime family. Among seven counts of racketeering, mail fraud and extortion are allegations that Peter threatened competitors.

Current newspaper ads for the cruise, which is to sail out of Port Everglades, near Ft. Lauderdale, do not mention which NFL players will be aboard the ship, and Peter’s representatives would not give names. But earlier ads mentioned Brown, Taylor and Craig, along with this entreaty: “Join 200 naked showgirls and dozens of pro football superstars on the full action casino cruise that would make the Love Boat blush!”

Said Aiello: “Our security people are trying to determine who may be involved and make sure they understand league rules. And we do have concerns about the types of people our players associate with.”

Peter, 48, who has homes in Los Angeles and Orlando, is free on a $1-million property bond while awaiting trial Sept. 25. He was not available for comment.

But Larry Church, an official with Peter’s corporation, said that because of a national advertising campaign, and the publicity generated by the NFL’s warning, the cruise was selling well.

“This is adult entertainment, and we’re getting response from all over the country,” he said.