I know football is exactly a game, but with the news from Vanderbilt this past week, they must be trying to make it woke or something. The Commodores, their school mascot, decided to get a girl from the soccer team for kicking duties. I have nothing against a female trying to play the game, if she is qualified and able to earn a spot, but football isn't soccer. There is a reason we, Americans, prefer football to soccer and that is the hits, the contact is what makes it our sport.
I thought it was interesting that just over the Thanksgiving break, Wife was talking to her family and the topic of football came up, probably because of Baby A playing his last game of the season, but it was in reference to one of Wife's nephews who happens to be very good at soccer. We haven't seen him play, but we hear from my sister-in law and see pictures of him getting a few feet of the ground to hit the ball with his head or even to kick the ball. The high school coach pulled him aside and asked him if he was interested in being the team kicker and he said no. He goes to a big school in San Antonio and as recently as four years ago they were in the state finals so it is a big program over there. He promptly said no, and he admitted that the idea of kicking the ball was not the problem, it was being on the field with all these oversized humans trying to take his head off. Soccer is a finesse sport where person to person contact is not even encouraged. Football is the opposite as every play requires some sort of exchange physically.
I know full well Baby A could lay me on my ass if he got a running start at me, one of his friends said he kicked him in the stomach for fear of not knowing what else to do one time when he charged at him full speed, Mijo admits he was just joking, but he is a lot of boy to charge at you. Baby A is still growing and he goes hard at 240 pounds. I can only imagine college players more muscular, larger, faster and stronger. Nothing against the female that tries, but our biggest athletes in this country play football and they are specially good in the SEC where Vanderbilt competes.
For her to really play, she has to kick the ball and then go and be involved in the tackle or bringing down of the ball return man. This looked more like a stunt and a little embarrassing at that, the ball barely made it to the 35 yard line and she was headed off the field as soon as she kicked it. Even in the best of games, luckily our son has not been hurt, but he is always bruised up something horrible the whole weekend after a game and like I said, he is a tough little thing. How is a "girl" weighing 120 pounds or so going to think she can compete in that world?
I wouldn't really care about this stunt but then the SEC made her player of the week, they did lose 41-0 and her only contribution was that shitty kick. She supposedly also was allowed to give a halftime speech, come on, at that point she hadn't even been on the field. It's like giving one of the trainers power over the players. I'm sure that went over well with the guys who are getting the shit beat out of them week in and week out.
But these are new times, we must all be woke and realize anything men can do, women can do just as well. I don't do anything special and I do work with capable women who can teach me a thing or two, but football is a unique thing and if women want to step in, go ahead, but do it for real, not just a shitty kick and then go talk to the whole world like you have the Covid-19 vaccine in your pocket. Show a little humility, it would maybe make us like you a little better. Or stick to your soccer team, at least until the trans people replace y'all.
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