Should women be allowed to play for the NFL and other "male" sports?

[JohnnyReb]

High school team here has a girl for a kicker.......she's was just a freashman this year and was really pretty good. The team has sucked for years....politics being played by the coach to keep his job, winning team be damned. Well, they got a new coach this new and he's got one heck of a rebuilding job ahead of him. The girls older brother was the kicker but she's got the job for now. Someone said that about half the points they got this year was put on the board by her. .......but pro-ball...no

The girl plays soccer and has played soccer for years. I've seen her play soccer. She's not very big but she does have quite a leg on her.

Can she take a hit?

I've been told she's been hit a few times but bounced right back up. ....but then, that probably wasn't a 300 pounder that hit her either.

[NHSparky]

Anyone who thinks women can consistently compete with men, I bring you Anika Sorenstam.

[RedTail]

No. As strong as women are, they wouldn't probably get up from a tackle from Robert Gallery, Zach Thomas, or hell, even Jack Del Rio, no matter how well padded they were.  It's a different grade of strength. . .I've been hit at full speed by a lineman when I was in high school. I cracked my shoulder blade.

There are already all-female football leagues. I even watched a couple Miami Rage football games. The female athletes are out there. The money is out there. But honestly, the interest is not there.

*Red*

[Chris_]

No. As strong as women are, they wouldn't probably get up from a tackle from Robert Gallery, Zach Thomas, or hell, even Jack Del Rio, no matter how well padded they were.  It's a different grade of strength. . .I've been hit at full speed by a lineman when I was in high school. I cracked my shoulder blade.

There are already all-female football leagues. I even watched a couple Miami Rage football games. The female athletes are out there. The money is out there. But honestly, the interest is not there.

*Red*

I re-refer to the boring WNBA.  An LA Times writer accurately said a good men's HS team could beat the best WNBA team.

[jtyangel]

This is a poll and you won't believe  how many of these morons said yes

ccharles000  (1000+ posts)       Tue May-27-08 09:02 AM
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Poll question: Should women be allowed to play for the NFL and other "male" sports? 
 Should women be allowed to play for the NFL and other "male" sports?

I think yes.
Poll result (78 votes) 
Yes  (39 votes, 50%) Vote
No  (16 votes, 21%) Vote
Don't care  (19 votes, 24%) Vote
Other  (4 votes, 5%) Vote



 

And you're an idiot for saying so http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3345296

Oh, God...not this again. You know, I'm a large, tall woman and in my youth I was pretty powerful and athletic. I was good at basketball and softball/baseball in particular, and a strong runner and swimmer.

But never in a million years would I have ever been STOOOOPID enough to think that I could have played at a man's level of competition in any of those sports without wasting the time of all concerned. And probably getting myself injured, killed, thoroughly humiliated.

Exhibition games for charity or something would be fun, perhaps, but for serious sports, this is a "playing field" that can never be leveled. It's not about feminism; it's about pragmatism.

Perfect! Exactly. Hi 5

[lastparker]

All it would take is for the first one to end up in a wheel chair or worse and the whole thing would tank into oblivion.

It is just like every attempt by a liberal to force "equality"....  They'd have ruined the entire sport by the time they'd changed all the rules to accomodate the women.  Much like it went when the first liberal Mom wanted her "slow" child mainstreamed into a regular class at school....

"Well, Mrs. Pitt, it has been three weeks.  Will simply can't do the work."
"Then he needs more attention."
"But Mrs. Pitt, the teacher also has to teach the REST of the students."
"Then he should have his OWN teacher.  At taxpayer expense.  And in the same classroom, so he won't feel "different" from the other kids."
"But, Mrs. Pitt, he IS."
"I'm suing!"

[Taxman]

One of my son's played football.  In his Freshman year they had an awesome team...almost always trounced everyone they came up against by 50 plus points.  They had a girl on the team.  Her mom was/is a flaming moonbat and thought her daughter had to play football because she wanted to and that girls are not different than boys.  The girl was a bit stocky but was a decent runner for a girl so the coach made her third string fullback.   We had one school in our conference that reigned as state champs for years and years and they thought that they defined football.  We had to play them early in the year and we were ahead by 60 something to 0 in the third quarter after having just scored yet another td.  The coach hated this other school and thought it would be funny to put the girl in to score a two-point conversion.  She got the ball and got nailed by their D-line that resulted in her foot being on backwards.  She was out for the season and her freshman year of sports was pretty much over right there.  She was a good athlete but was clearly out of her element playing contact sports with boys. 

[stickyboot]

All it would take is for the first one to end up in a wheel chair or worse and the whole thing would tank into oblivion.

It is just like every attempt by a liberal to force "equality"....  They'd have ruined the entire sport by the time they'd changed all the rules to accomodate the women.  Much like it went when the first liberal Mom wanted her "slow" child mainstreamed into a regular class at school....

"Well, Mrs. Pitt, it has been three weeks.  Will simply can't do the work."
"Then he needs more attention."
"But Mrs. Pitt, the teacher also has to teach the REST of the students."
"Then he should have his OWN teacher.  At taxpayer expense.  And in the same classroom, so he won't feel "different" from the other kids."
"But, Mrs. Pitt, he IS."
"I'm suing!"

Child care for mentally disabled children at taxpayer expense.

[Ptarmigan]

Are they out of their mind? If women play in NFL, they will get clobbered and die.