Hey, Girlie! No Football For You!
Football IS king in Ohio.
My husband and I decided ‘cheerleading’ was, while many do very athletic skills, an unnecessary activity and persona for our two older girls to bother with in school. Real sports only were worthy of their/our time, energy, and attention.
So, we compromised by allowing them to get the cheerleader bug out of their systems in our local youth/pee-wee league for a couple seasons. Worked rather well … And our oldest was playing hockey on a boy’s team at the time …
Anyhow, our youth league allowed and had a couple gals playing on the football teams. My oldest may as well have been playing football, as the ‘play on the field’ always seemed to find her on the cheerleader sidelines in a tackle and massive pile on … Got to the point where my husband told her that if she couldn’t get the hell out of the way quick enough to throw one of her hockey body checks into the bunch coming at her … and let the fucking referees hand our team the penalty. (We also instructed her to do this, BTW, while playing basketball in school … as the other teams always tried to get her to foul-out of the game with cheap shots … hockey-check to the opposing player on the last foul remaining always seemed to work … even with the refs.) … HEH!
(FOX)
10-Year-Old Barred From Playing Football Because She’s a Girl
A 10-year-old was barred from playing in a Cleveland-area youth football league because she’s a girl.
Alycia Figueroa of Ashtabula, Ohio, has loved football ever since she was small — and often plays with the boys. But when her parents took her to sign up for the Ashtabula Midget Football League this week, they were turned away, MyFOX Cleveland reported.
The league’s president told them that according to the bylaws set in 1971, girls aren’t allowed.
“It’s not fair that it’s 2008 and she still can’t play because she’s a girl,” her mother, Poula Stitt, told MyFOX Cleveland.
The league’s president told Alycia’s parents that she should try out for cheerleading instead.
“It upsets me,” said the 10-year-old. She’d rather play football, she added, “because I get to tackle people.”
The league seems concerned that Alycia could get injured. Her mother brushed that reasoning aside.
“She’s pretty tough,” she told MyFOX Cleveland. “If that’s what they’re worried about is her getting roughed up, she’ll be fine.”
Poula and Roy Stitt have since enrolled their daughter in a youth league across town that does accept girls.
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“She’s pretty tough,” she told MyFOX Cleveland. “If that’s what they’re worried about is her getting roughed up, she’ll be fine.”
You gotta love that mom in this age of candy-ass whiners.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:25 pmI can vouch for that. Football is more like a religion in Ohio.
this mom has the right attitude to be sure. hell even some of the men act like a bunch of ball-less cowards these days. too afraid to crack their pedicured finger nails. I think girls should be allowed to play with the boys under one condition, expect no one to take it easy on you. i would feel bad flattening a girl on the field but its the only way that plan would work.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:56 pmI agree with you Kurt. Let her play with the boys. There will come a time though when you’d have to draw the line, since the boys will no doubt end up getting bigger and end up throwing more power around. But right now they’re only ten, the boys ain’t really got an edge up on the girls yet.
OK Joe,
July 11th, 2008 at 4:05 pmShe sounds like my mom.
yeah i totally forgot to add that. there will have to be a line drawn eventually. you’re exactly right. even in jr high i had some 240+ guys on the team
July 11th, 2008 at 5:51 pmCooking, cleaning, babysitting, and looking pretty are much more marketable skills for this young lady in the long run.
Allowing her to mix it up with the boys and then having to take it away from her later; or worse she is seriously hurt, will only make her resentful and bitter. Like the man-sign hater in Georgia.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:10 pmLet her play. just don’t go changing the rules to give her an advantage. If she can keep up with boys then she should earn the right to be there.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:13 pmDon’t know if they still do it, but when a baby boy was born in Massillon, Ohio the hospital nursery would place a football in the crib with him …
Yep, football IS religion in Ohio.
Wasn’t there some sort of docu-movie made a couple years ago about the town and the history of their high school football program?
July 11th, 2008 at 6:15 pmDrill
there sure was. it was called Go Tigers! where they live, breathe and eat football.
we always did and still do pull a full crowd on friday nights. just the fact that every team we would play was considered a major rivalry just explains what football is around here. the giant spotlights coming out of the cornfield means its football season
July 11th, 2008 at 6:41 pmMy son wrestles, he is still in the youth divisions but there are girls wrestling boys all the time at tournaments. Some get used to wipe up the mat and some kick the boys’ asses and make them cry. Now that’s entertainment. My daughter is 5 and wants to wrestle so bad to be just like big brother and next year we are going to let her, with the understanding that there is no crying in wrestling unless you get really hurt. She’s tough and real ornery sometimes and if she gets mad at a kid she wants to take their head off, so it will be interesting to see.
July 11th, 2008 at 9:05 pmI used to play tackle football with girls. We had fun (hint, hint). Let her play with the boys. I would tell the boys, don’t cut her any slack. If she wants to play a man’s sport, then by all means treat her like one.
Incidently, we didn’t crush any of the girls as a rule. We cut them a lot of slack. Unless the game was on the line…in which case we crushed the girls….as we did for other guys. Tackling and blocking should be an EEO enterprise.
It is kind of fun, searching for the ball underneath a pile of bodies and finding some interesting female form instead….if you know what I mean.
She’ll figure it out….just as soon as she gets tackled real hard by a guy half her size or one bigger than her.
Football is a rough sport. But, if she wants to play with the boys, by all means…go for it.
July 12th, 2008 at 2:49 amIf they don’t let the boys play in women’s volleyball at high school, which most districts don’t, I see no reason why she should play with the boys. Everyone wants equal rights until they find out that equal sometimes means discriminitory.
July 12th, 2008 at 10:14 am