Posted on 11/30/2020 9:24:44 AM PST by md1986
Sarah Fuller made history on Saturday afternoon when she became the first woman to play in a Power Five conference football game. Vanderbilt installed her as a kicker after the team’s other kickers were deemed unavailable due to COVID-19. Vanderbilt ultimately lost to Missouri 41-0, falling to 0-8 on the year. The team’s head coach, Derek Mason, was fired one day later. Shortly after making her big debut, Fuller did an interview with Courtney Cronin of ESPN. Among the interesting tidbits that emerged from their conversation was how Fuller got angry at her teammates at halftime.
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I don’t think the coach had the final say in the “stunt”
I saw it on TV and thought it was an onside kick? Gads, that sucks.
Plus, men generally don't need - or appreciate -- the incessant mutual affirmation that characterizes female sports teams. It's annoying.
And I'm sure her telling her male football teammates how she did it in women's soccer went over particularly well....
Not.
Wait’ll she brings a Title IX action because the cross bar between the goal posts is too high. ( Not sarcasm.)
I hope to see the day when 50% of the college football slots on football teams are given to females. Fair is fair.
Yappy little broad...might be a future for her in ‘pro’ soccer.
I’d have to agree on that point, as I’m sure that at least one time, I was able to do a kickoff 25 yards in college, and I wasn’t even an athlete, my roommate and I were just seeing what we could do in the field house.
On the other hand, my roommate could actually throw a pass 50 yards, although not with great accuracy. He had a cannon for an arm. It was great in pickup football games, the first play I’d just run my butt down the field, the defenders would stop covering after 25 yards, and he’d fire the ball to me and we’d score. Only works once though.
Since football does nothing except provide revenue to the most anti-American institutions in the country, Why should we care?
In my opinion, this is college football, not the military, so I don’t have an issue with a female trying to make a team.
If she sucks at football, and makes the team at the expense of someone who is better simply because she is female, I would have an issue with that, but...not enough to get worked up over.
It would simply confirm what I lately have come to view nearly all sports as-unimportant to me. I used to love sports, but in the last five or six years, they have removed the mask of athletic competition and put on the mask of woke-ness by supporting destructive things that have nothing to do with athletic competition.
And it isn’t just supporting, it is over-the-top support. This has been painful for me to come to that point, but here I am.
This one is allowed to kick a ball during a football game, she underperforms, and immediately starts on the players. This reads like Mad Magazine.
Do you actually think a girl football player is going to be dainty?
She obviously knows not much about college football. Nobody expects Vandy to win including the team.
Over the decades, several females have participated in football games at various levels.
After the initial media hoopla, they seem to fade out of the picture.
Oh, by the way, does anyone on this thread know that her team won the SEC soccer championship? She does know a little bit about a winning team.
They’re 0-7, for crying out loud, how much enthusiasm do you want?
At half-time, the coach probably realized that he was going to lose regardless, so might as well get some affirmative action points.
I saw a soccer goalie at a D3 school kick the ball the entire length of the field, in a single bounce. She had Thor’s hammer for a leg.
The next year she was the placekicker for the football team—she had used up her Soccer Eligibility, so she turned to football for a grad year.
She had the strongest leg of any kicker I had ever seen.
And she was “into” the game from the sidelines.
There is nothing wrong with that. Noting wrong at all.
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