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I know a woman who played professional football on a woman's tackle football league in Chicago for years. She is a big, strong woman who is more than qualified to step out on a football field--or she was when she was in her prime, anyway. She's in her 40s now, so like most professional football players, she has retired from the sport.
Yes, the great majority of women will never be able to play professional football, but for the few who can, why not let them?
There's a very crucial difference between our respective scenarios. I've bolded a portion of yours to give you a clue.
There's a very crucial difference between our respective anecdotes. I've bolded a portion of yours to give you a clue.
Yes, because that's the only league she was allowed to play for at the time. She could have never even gotten a tryout on men's professional football team, even if though she was qualified. And you want to make sure to keep it that way.
Yes, because that's the only league she was allowed to play for at the time. She could have never even gotten a tryout on men's professional football team, even if though she was qualified. And you want to make sure to keep it that way.
Now do you have a clue?
so you think a woman plays for WOMAN's football league with extremely shallow talent pool is qualified to play for the men's pro football team with deep talent pool? ROLF
Kind of wimpy, she isn't the only female wrestler around the country many have been successful. Plenty of girls play football.Angel looks pretty fierce by the way.
Yes, because that's the only league she was allowed to play for at the time. She could have never even gotten a tryout on men's professional football team, even if though she was qualified. And you want to make sure to keep it that way.
Now do you have a clue?
Of course I do. And it's painfully evident that you still don't.
Originally Posted by wntour; It is hard to act macho when your sport involves grabbing half naked, sweaty men and rolling around on the ground with them. Wrestling is like homo erotic cosplay.
Express your weird fantasies in the relationship forum, please.
I wrestled in high school and college. I personally would not wrestle a girl because it's a lose-lose situation, especially as he gets to higher level (ncaa, naia, njcaa) of wrestling.
Your son and his teammates don't care probably because they are still young.
That was my point in regards to the bold....
That as a young person in high school, this is not a factor. It would only be a factor if an older person was pushing it on the athlete. I truly do feel that his decision was driven by his family or some older relatives and that if left to decide for himself, I'd doubt he'd forfeit 2 matches the way he did if he wasn't influences or worried about some adult's reaction.
I literally saw my son's friend/teammate get smashed by a girl earlier this season and that boy is not in a lightweight weight class (cannot remember off hand, but I know he is at least 140lbs). I've seen that particular girl wrestle before and she does have some skills and I know she wrestles in a state league here in Ohio where we do have a girl's league in the off season. But she is usually beat by the boys. The boy/teammate of my son was not conditioned and she beat him based on her being conditioned and experienced because she basically wrestles all year. The boy was not ridiculed by his teammates or his coaches, but he probably was by his family because it is usually families who do things like this - not the athletes today. Masculine environments of young men today are not as toxic as they were and sexist as the older generation of men (and women BTW as I know many moms who buy into these toxic masculine roles and taunting).
Sounds to me like he was afraid he was going to be beat by a girl, so he did the cowardly thing and quit.
He was 37-1 wrestling against boys. Doubt he had any fear of them.
He just had certain principles.
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