Posted on 09/26/2023 12:37:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
Before you all get mad at me for attacking this young lady, let me get this out of the way: Yes, she's better than me. No, I couldn't make a D3 practice squad.
BUT, let me also be clear: This whole spectacle is a joke.
The NCAA is celebrating Haley Van Voorhis because she's the first female to play a snap in a college football game (Shenandoah, Division III) who isn't a kicker.
Van Voorhis came in late in the game as a safety and recorded a "QB hurry."
Haley, girl, you were unabated to the QB! You gotta get those hands up and bat the ball down there! You were too slow for the sack!
Haley came in when her team was up 26 points in the first quarter - she rushed the QB completely unblocked (because who's gonna hit a girl, right?) - and recorded a QB hurry that, in the NFL, would have been called roughing the passer.
I'm not going to argue that it's a late hit or roughing the passer, because I ain't soft. But if that was Tom Brady she'd have been thrown out of the game.
Just sayin'.
But good for her, I guess. Women have finally made it!
...Made it to the least consequential play in the least consequential football game so that woke ESPN and the woke NCAA could brag that there's no difference between men and women.
I must say, these are interesting times we are living in.
She’s going to get blocked into a serious concussion on some running play.
The youngest member of Hanson finally goes to college.
How do we know Haley wasn’t born Henry?
Hate this. She inevitably gets nailed and the male who did it will experience incredible guilt. I don’t even like them as kickers since a blocked field goal is a live ball and they can be blocked.
My Lord, what the post-modernism and the woke deep-state are doing to white women!
I think she should go straight to the pros. With those kinds of moves, she might be a Probowler!
She looks like the QB in “Remember the Titans.”
Here is another one from the past.
“Three years ago, Francis Scott Key High School in Union Bridge, Md., was going to make school history by having its first female football player. Now, in a nightmarish saga, it may make history again.
In 1989, Tawana Hammond, a 17-year-old running back who had never played organized football, was tackled in her first scrimmage and allegedly suffered internal injuries that required removal of her spleen and half of her pancreas. This August, 11 days before the statute of limitations for a civil suit expired, Hammond sued the Carroll County school system for $1.5 million.
Hammond alleges in her three-count lawsuit, scheduled to be brought to court Dec. 8, that the Carroll County Board of Education did not properly inform her of the inherent risk of injury related to playing football. The lawyer for the board, Ed O’Mealy, would not comment on whether it is the responsibility of the board to inform each player of the risks involved, but said that every player is required to get a physical and a permission form signed by parents. Hammond got both.”
I see a missed blocking assignment or that some guy was afraid to drop the hammer on her.
Someone who doesn't already know, shouldn't be trying out.
if you want to see some bitchin’ bad ass women playing football
watch legends football
fewer rules than nfl
“...her team was up 26 points in the first quarter...”
Who the H*LL were they playing???? North East South West Mississippi School for the Blind and Handicapped????
Pretty young lady. She’s going to get hurt badly though. This is silliness. Worse, it’s dangerous performative theater.
The Denver Broncos.
The NY Jets........................
More, “Hey who wants to play make believe?”
*ROFL*
If I remember that story, the case was dismissed on the grounds that the school owed no such “duty to warn” about the dangers of playing football.
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