Women's Football at the Superbowl?

Having the privileged of posting on the same day as the Superbowl means that I am writing about football. Now while I am sure may of you reading have chosen sides...Pats...Giants...Pants...what-have-you. My husband just asks me "do you know who the quaterbacks are?" and without event thinking I respond "no and I don't really care". He stops short and laughs as he realizes that I am typing and being absolutely serious. I have just finished a little research and here is what I have to share with you:

American football is not just for men. I don't mean "anything you can do, I can do better" but rather women have sought out and excelled at the sport. The women's teams do not make the money the men's teams make, get the media coverage, or get to call their passion a full-time career. But these women play for the love of the sport and are really good at it. "When you think about American football, you envision it being played by heavily-padded big men making violent contact with each other. But Tarsha Fain, team captain of the Baltimore Nighthawks says, think again." The Independent Women's Football League is the center of all things women's football including a countdown of just 56days to the start of the 2012 season. There are more than 30 women's teams throughout the nation, including the Connecticut Wreckers. In addition to the IWFL is the Women's Football Alliance which grew in the first five months of its existence from 0 to 32 teams, "making it the fastest growing league in the history of the sport. This momentum continued as the WFA grew by an additional twenty-five percent after its first year, making it the fastest growing league in the country. Now in it's third year, the WFA currently has 63 teams making it the largest-ever women's football league in the world."

The moral of the story, it's not about feminism, about women surpassing men, or about women striking out only to achieve equality. Women playing football, and being recognized for it, is just one more playing field for women to find themselves and have fun. Maybe someday there will even be a women's team in the Superbowl. Either that, or maybe America will move to a gender neutral sport...leave the pads at home and try rugby...or football...the real kind. In the mean time enjoy the game!

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWHXqBhxkRM&feature=youtu.be