Today I opened up the newspaper and saw something I don't see every day. It was a story about football, but not men's football. Yes, it was about a women's football team, and I don't mean soccer. I mean American football.
The Memphis Belles is a new team in the National Women's Football Association. They play real tackle football too, not flag or touch or any other variation. The newspaper article is here:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/200�?/a>
If you look at the pictures, except for the one where the woman isn't wearing her helmet, you really can't tell they're women out there playing.
The league's website is here. Apparently they've actually been around for a few years.
http://www.womensfootballcentral.com/
I have two questions about this:
1. Do you support the idea of women's football?
2. Would you go watch it?
Of course, anything else you have to say is welcome too.|||lol sounds like fun!
heck ya I support it
ya i would watch it.........yes I watch mens pro football too, but TBH I like college football better.|||I totally support the integration of all sports at every level. If it begins this way, fine, but I eventually want to see women playing alongside men in every sport that exists. I see no reason why women should be excluded from the NFL or NCAA football. I am and always have been opposed to having separate athletic programs and can't wait for the day that a woman can proudly run through the arms of Brian Urlacher #54, and proudly celebrate her touchdown.|||1. I would support it, if they want to play it. 2. If they played well.|||I think it's a good idea, as long as they don't have to wear pink uniforms. I wouldn't watch it, though, because I don't like sports. I watch the Super Bowl (mainly for the commercials) and the occasional Buckeyes game. That's it.|||This is the first time I've heard of women's football. I don't see a problem, if that's what they want to do, but I doubt I would watch it. I don't watch men's either. I only watch my son, when he plays - otherwise I find it boring.|||I had to go out of my way to watch all of the Giants games i watched this season, no way I'm going out of my way to watch one of these games, assuming they are going to be televised which i doubt|||1. I disapprove of seperation of sexes in professional sports. The best atheletes are the best atheletes, to say that they have to be seperate is to say that these sexes cannot possibly be equal.
2. Probably not, I don't watch any football now. Not even the Super Bowl.|||I don't like sports for men or women that cause as many injuries as does football. And, I have "issues" about how much of public high school budgets are spent on football. I personally would not watch it, but then I do not watch men's football ever, even got fired by a patient once who said he did not want a nurse who was so stupid as to not know what the Super Bowl is. Whatever.
That being said, I had something happen in high school. I was very athletic but participated only in individual sports like mountain climbing, diving, golf, ballet, marksmanship, canoeing, archery and such. I was unusually "feminine", too, in appearances and leanings and ways. I did not like contact sports. Then a school coach begged me to join at least temporarily the girl's field hockey team when they were desperate once. But, that sport was not considered "feminine" enough in my family and they would not have ever permitted me to participate, so I agreed to play but hid that from my family who would have had a cow over it.
I scoped out the rules and showed up for a major game with a rival school without ever even playing the game before. It was snowing and the girls were like TOUGH and healthy. I started playing and was really good at it, a natural. The game progressed and we got souped up or something from the cold I think and from the unusual gathering of such athletic women. Some of the most athletic girls in the city were there. We knew it, too. Something happened. Although we were rivals, both teams good-naturedly started absolutely cutting loose in some king of hyper-physical prowess and skill. It felt WONDERFUL to finally be able to cut loose like that and push myself to my limits. It was wild. We weren't vicious or mad at each other, just exploding with some kind of physical joy slamming it out in that snow and mud that day. Gosh, those girls were GOOD.
Parents watching were eating it up, screaming with as much excitement as we felt on the field. Girls started getting hurt and bleeding and we just wouldn't quit. Authorities tried to stop the game and we still wouldn't quit. It was one of the most wonderful experiences of my life, that utter "who cares what scars we're going get out of this" all-out physical push. Finally, we just collapsed in the mud and laughed our butts off at what just happened for us, females athletes finally able to play for blood like that and for how we abandoned the rules and the refs and everything for that rare free for all.
That was my first and last girl's field hockey game, though, because when I walked off the filed there was my mother. She was there to pick me up and had been watching. She wouldn't talk to me all the way home. My brother even came home from college to "scold" me. But, now that I'm too old and blind to ever play that hard again for the rest of my life, I frequently close my eyes and savor that memory and how good it felt to be young and strong and invincible. Girls should not be discouraged from experiencing that feeling. Only old biddies and insecure men presume to discourage girls from playing football if they want to.|||Good for them, as long as it doesn't start taking up time on SportsCenter. And no, I would never go watch it, as much as I love football.|||If there are enough woman out there that are good enough for a woman's football league, I say go for it!! I probably wouldn't watch it, but, then again, I don't watch much football now. I believe that some sports should stay as 'men only' sports. Woman are built differently and can get hurt in different places. Also, it's not fair to the men, as some of them may hold back because they are afraid they might hurt the woman.|||I think it is a fine idea %26amp; would support any kind of women's sport. However, due to size %26amp; muscle development, one could hardly expect them to compete with male football players. I've often felt my girl children, %26amp; grandchildren were short changed when it came to sports. I played HS %26amp; college football %26amp; loved every minute of it... however, I never met a woman, regardless of size, that could compete with me on strength. Without a great deal of training I could always bench press 350 lbs %26amp; dead lift over 500 (about average for a lineback when I played ~50 yrs ago.)
I suspect I'd watch it... much depends upon developing an interest in the team %26amp; those playing. However, one couldn't expect women to compete with males on a pro level.|||Yes and no. I don't like football, I prefer rugby.|||I don't even like men's football, so I wouldn't go watch it. But I fully support professional female athletes of all kinds.|||Women's football is a supremely stupid idea, just like every other example of radical feminism that is trying to get women to act like macho amazons instead of encouraging them to cultivate their feminine charm and grace.
(Other examples of such nonsense include: women "soldiers" and women "cops" and women "firefighters" and women "boxers" -- all those innately masculine professions where women simply DO NOT BELONG.)
Nature designed women's bodies to be smaller and softer and much weaker and less rugged than men's bodies. That is what is most natural and feminine and attractive in a woman: how much softer and weaker more vulnerable she is than a man. Going the other way is hideously unfeminine, ugly, and the very opposite of sexy. Ugh.
Really, the women's teams should have to compete against the men's teams. I think we all know how that would turn out. The men being so much bigger, stronger, tougher, and more powerful and aggressive, they would utterly defeat and humiliate the little ladies, and put an end to their silly notions of "wimmins power" or whatever.
I don't know what causes women to get into nonsense like this. I suspect that most of them are just in need of a big, strong, dominant man to put them over his knee and paddle some sense into them, bring them to sweet feminine surrender.
(Oh, and one more thing: Yes, I'm a woman.)
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