Posted on 08/16/2013 11:55:19 AM PDT by IbJensen
Edited on 08/16/2013 12:09:22 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Makhaela Jenkins is being banned from football by an Ohio school district.
An Ohio school district is refusing to let a seventh-grade girl play football, prompting requests that the board change its policies on female athletes.
Liberty Union-Thurston District superintendent Paul Mathews said the longstanding policy doesn't violate any gender-related regulations, because the district offers girls other, non-contact athletic options.
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they should form their own league
They did! And I like it!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfkKjATCu4E
True except for the part about suing to get on the team.
Let her play until she realizes that she can no longer compete.....
I loooved football growing up and played with my brothers and the neighborhood kids as often as possible. As a younger girl, I loved to go with my dad (high school varsity FB coach)to the practices and afterwards watch films with the coaches.
At the end of 6th grade, I begged my dad to let me play 7th grade football (and little league baseball), he said absolutely not, you are a girl and will play girl sports if you want to play anything. At the end of the summer before the start of 7th grade, I was again playing tackle football with the neighborhood kids. Unbeknownst to me, some of these boys had started puberty (they just looked taller:)). I took a shot so hard that I was cured of my desire to play full contact sports ever again with boys. I went on to play collegiate level sports and never again felt anything like the bone jarring hit from my last game of tackle football!
“Football is for boys.”
Heck, more than that. Football is for some boys. Not even all men are manly enough to be competitive at that sport.
If she is lucky, all she will have, is a broken neck. More likely, if she plays football with males, her injuries will be much worse than that.
I don't see what the policy on female athletes has do to with anything.
Football is offered for boys only. She isn't. End of.
If we were talking strictly about recreational sports, it seems to me it would be reasonable to have co-ed teams based on size rather than on age/grade. My brother and I played on the same soccer team in a league at a Navy base one year, and he was two years older than I. (11 and 13, maybe?) Soccer isn’t the same as football, of course, but everyone’s the same size as *someone*, if you get what I mean.
However, school sports, in many areas, are big business. It’s all about winning, not about the good of the participants, no matter what sex they are.
So true!
I like football too. But I know that girls are not designed to play against males. When I was in high school I got involved in a football game with a few of my friends, four of us on each side. They thought it would be funny having a girl on a team. They may have wanted to teach me a lesson, or maybe they just wanted to keep the sides even. I never really asked why they invited me to play.
They took it easy on me except on one play when a 150 lb full back (he was actually on the high school team) had to bring the ball through my area to get to the end zone. More than twenty yards away from me, he started yelling, there is no way a little girl like you can stop me going full speed and he headed straight for me. Well I knew a little about physics so I bent my knees, lowered my center of gravity, leaned forward and waited. The Lord must have been with me that day because when he ran into me, I pushed up, he flipped and landed flat on his back. He must have been in shock because he kept repeating, ‘She did it. She stopped me.’
That one play transferred so much energy into me, I realized that if he had been in full pads, I probably would have been the one flat on the ground in shock. I also realized that extremely few woman would be able to withstand 250 to 350 lb plus men running into them at top speed. So women should not try to play football with guys.
But this is what I see. As with the military, they will make football change its rules so that women will be able perform and they will have to make it safe enough for women to play alongside the men. The game will become like flag football, no tackling, no running at full speed, no sacking the quarterback. Or maybe it will be like boring soccer with no one touching anyone. Didn’t they do a South Park about this already?
I just know that when that day comes, you can be absolutely certain this country is gone. Because if we won’t even stand up to keep from losing football, there is nothing we will fight to keep.
Did anyone see my post about the rules changes for the next Pro-Bowl? I mean “NFL All-Star Game”, since it has a new name now.
It will not have kickoffs, too dangerous.
Some boys around here are playing field hockey with the girls cause there is no boys team. Even if they have to wear a skirt as a uniform.
That said, if the girl wants to play, they have to let her. We have had girl kickers in high school here.
When I played midget football there was a girl playing nose guard on one of the teams we played.
These things will sort themselves out. If the girl isn’t up to the physical demands of the sport, she will eventually quit.
What does the girl do when the boys hit the showers?
I guess in CA and MA now they can join them
Yeah, they hit kind of hard don’t they. LOL! ;-)
A big problem is that in 7th and 8th grade, the football boys are going to suddenly get a lot bigger and stronger than they were at the beginning of the year. That spells danger... unless she’s a kicker.
I remember that...
I say make her a center and let nature take its course.
I remember seeing something on that. Kickoffs and punt returns are some of the most exciting plays in football. I can see they are changing the Pro Bowl to the “NFL All-Snores Game.” If they think no one watches now, just wait. They can make all the name changes they want. It won’t make up for the boring, sissifying rule changes.
It’s a trial balloon for the regular season, of course.
That I totally believe.
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