Principal Bans Girls' Tackle Football Game, Suggests Bobbing for Apples Instead

Reason Magazine ^ | Lenore Skenazy

[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:

[Kozak]

But the same library’s want women in the Infantry and mud Marines...

[Ken H]

After the apple-bobbing, they should all complain of a funny taste, then collapse and fake seizures.

[tbw2]

And yet we’re supposed to think we can send these same girls off to the military?

[Dr. Sivana]

I thought that Powder Puff Football was flag football, not tackle.