I’ve been meaning to ask this one for a while. I recently saw a news story that reminded me that I wanted to bring this up on the site. In the story there is a 14 year old girl that’s playing little league football. She surprised everyone by sticking with it and said she’s having the most fun of her entire life. Now one thing I did notice in the story was that there was no actual footage of her playing just standing on the sideline. Now I applaud her for trying but I came up with the question by watching a different girl.
A month or two back while we were on cheer leading duty with our 6 year old and watching the little league game she was cheering we noticed something odd in the backfield of the opposing team. What we saw was a girl named McKayla. Bigger than most of the boys but big good not big bad. She was taller and even looked more athletic. She was the starting running back and guess what, she touched the rock almost every play. I was proud of her even though I didn’t even know her. She was not there to prove a point, she was there because she was a beast on the field. Almost every snap was the same, the quarterback took the ball, handed it off to McKayla and she took off, gained a few yards and dropped the shoulder on some unsuspecting young sucka that always looked like they ended up with the worst part of the tackle.
This got me thinking, if one of our daughters wanted to play football would we be down and supportive? I already know that’s a no for TheMom. Boy, girl whatever she’s not an advocate of her kids playing football. But TheDad does wear the britches in this household :-). My 2 year old is rough and tuff and all that stuff. We even refer to her as the gangsta baby sometimes, plus she’s been as strong as a horse before she could even walk so what if she comes to daddy one day with a simple request to play football?
BMWK, would you let your daughter play football? Has it ever come up with you or did you know a girl that played tackle football? Is there an age you wouldn’t let her play anymore? Let us know.