Women in football

I watched this movie many times when I was a young girl. Tami Maida was my hero. I thought it was so cool for a girl to play tackle football with the boys. I was a bit of a tomboy and played soccer on the mixed team when I was young, and when I got the chance to play football in middle school, all the boys said that "Girls can't play football!" and that urked me. I showed them. I played football throughout Jr. High and High School. I was the first girl in my home town to ever play football all through high school. And I was an offensive and defensive lineman. I only achieved one major injury--I broke my leg during a practice drill in 7th grade. But I didn't quit, after I recovered, I went back to training and stuck with it. Those were some of my favorite times. More power to any woman/girl that wants to dominate in a male dominated world.

I have no problem with girls playing football with the boys as long as they get a fair tryout. Also, targeting them on the field is wrong. Yes, they should be able to take a hit, but they also shouldn't feel as if they have a giant bullseye on their jersey every time they take the field.

When I was in high school in NC we had a girl on our football team. She was a kicker and the only reason I thought it sucked to have her on the team was that she never tried out. She walked into the sports office and demanded a spot on the team and threatened to have her parents sue for violation of Title IX if they didn't give her a spot. They made her the kicker because she also didn't want to have to worry about getting tackled. I hated her being on the team, because she also used it as a way to get local media attention since she was the first girl to ever be on our HS football team.

I played HS football in 1984 and 85 We played a high school that had 2 girls on their sophmore team, not QBs not kickers but OFFENSIVE LINEMEN (does that make them offensive linewomen?). The guys on our sophmore team were reluctant to hit them, until the girls knocked them on their rears. So they stopped holding back....and still got knocked on their rears.

There is more evidence of women in high school wrestling and they do win as much as 5-10% of the time against boys of equal weights. Football is more difficult as it is less technical and requires more speed, size and a ability to take severe punishment. But, I am not going any further with this.

The problem with this movie is no girl, Helen Hunt was 5'5", 120 lbs, is going to excell in football as quarterback. I think it would be a reckless disregard to let any girl or boy 120 lbs. play high school tackle football. Are their any weight requirements?

The problem with Hollywood is that they are so unrealistic in casting choices. Adam Sandler as an ex football player, or even Micheal Keaton as Batman. Hallie Berry as Catwoman and so on.

There are three women football leagues in the United States: Independent Women's Football League, Women's Football Alliance, and Women's Spring Football League.

There is also two women football leagues in Canada: Maritime Women's Football League and Western Women's Canadian Football League.