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To: IbJensen
I considered giving up football in the 7th grade. I was hit REALLY HARD by a guy named David Swackhammer (RIP) in practice.

Somebody like that unloads on this girl and she's done.

18 posted on 08/16/2013 12:52:48 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper

I loooved football growing up and played with my brothers and the neighborhood kids as often as possible. As a younger girl, I loved to go with my dad (high school varsity FB coach)to the practices and afterwards watch films with the coaches.
At the end of 6th grade, I begged my dad to let me play 7th grade football (and little league baseball), he said absolutely not, you are a girl and will play girl sports if you want to play anything. At the end of the summer before the start of 7th grade, I was again playing tackle football with the neighborhood kids. Unbeknownst to me, some of these boys had started puberty (they just looked taller:)). I took a shot so hard that I was cured of my desire to play full contact sports ever again with boys. I went on to play collegiate level sports and never again felt anything like the bone jarring hit from my last game of tackle football!


24 posted on 08/16/2013 1:05:28 PM PDT by ebersole
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