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Principal Bans Girls' Tackle Football Game, Suggests Bobbing for Apples Instead
Reason Magazine ^
| Lenore Skenazy
Posted on 05/04/2016 1:41:11 PM PDT by OddLane
A tradition for 50 years, the "powder puff" girls tackle football game in Jupiter, Florida, is being canceled for the first time thanks to—what else?—safety concerns.
Dan Frank, Jupiter High School's principal, said "Student safety is my first priority." The girls' short practice time and borrowed safety equipment, he said, "put our students at risk." After all: A girl broke her leg a few years ago.
Maybe the school should get rid of its stairs, while they're at it.
It's not that the principal didn't have some whiz-bang alternatives up his sleeve like... bobbing for apples. The Associated Press reports:
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: athletics; education; florida; football
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posted on
05/04/2016 1:41:11 PM PDT
by
OddLane
To: OddLane
Future wh intern training? Did I say that?
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posted on
05/04/2016 1:43:43 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: OddLane
Sticking your face into water that 20 other strangers just opened their mouth in,what could possibly go wrong?
To: OddLane
How about teaching the girls to use a handgun safely?
Statistics totally support that.
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posted on
05/04/2016 1:47:48 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: OddLane
Ridiculous. The girls LOVE to hit!
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posted on
05/04/2016 1:52:08 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Talisker
Teaching a woman to shoot?
That can be pretty damaging to the male ego (I have taught a couple of women to shoot an one of them, my wife, is now a better shot than me) :-)
Seriously, that is a great idea.
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posted on
05/04/2016 1:52:19 PM PDT
by
RedStateRocker
(Better questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.)
To: BenLurkin
As long as they are the right kind doing the hitting.
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:09:36 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: BenLurkin
Holy crap! What is that? The Stripper Football League?
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:10:59 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: WKUHilltopper
Lingerie Football.
(Kaff! Kaff!) Or so I've...uh...heard...
To: rktman
Wow.
I was thinking it but, wasn’t going to say it...
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:15:50 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:19:12 PM PDT
by
OddLane
To: WKUHilltopper
The Los Angeles Temptation
They wear the Silver; they wear the Black!
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:20:27 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: OddLane
“Ducking for apples ... Change one letter and it’s the story of my life.” - Dorothy Parker
To: OddLane
Bobbing for apples?
But...But..
1. You could drown.
2. You could get a disease.
3. An apple could hit you and put an eye out!
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:23:15 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Vendome
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:25:09 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: wideminded
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posted on
05/04/2016 2:49:18 PM PDT
by
OddLane
To: OddLane
Why don’t they just play flag football?
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posted on
05/04/2016 3:00:51 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: OddLane
Oh Lordy. We played tackle no pads
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posted on
05/04/2016 3:06:09 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: left that other site
I once saw a band named: “Bob on This”.
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posted on
05/04/2016 3:30:01 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus headsConservatus)
To: gigster
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posted on
05/04/2016 3:30:37 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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