Girls should play football

okay...here goes *stepping up on the soapbox*

That is good...hide behind the "safety" smoke screen to keep your team "female free", but we all know the real score. It is just like what some men used to say when women wanted a legal right to vote, "Well we just don't want them (women) having to worry their pretty little heads over matters of the state".
Football is VERY competitive here in Southern California...a lot of NFL players come out of this region, in fact, out of the VERY league my daughter plays in. She is the QB for 13/14 year olds and has just lead them to the Division Championship. I have to say it is ALWAYS a pleasure when we beat a team that has a coach with your mentality! It happened a few weeks ago...a team that has been undefeated for 2 years (last year no one even scored on them) lost to us. Those coaches were actually yelling things at my daughter DURING the game! She threw an 80 yard TD pass, another 35 yard TD pass and threw 2-2point PAT passes. That shut them up! The funny thing is...my daughter does not even play this sport to prove a point..she just LOVES football..plain and simple. It is only when we come across such closed minded thinking that she gets riled up and wants to prove that she CAN play the game. It really makes me wonder why people fret over this...I think it is simple! Put her out there and see if she can handle it. If the girl can...then fine...if she can't, then fine...but don't make a sweeping judgement on all females, then, just because some girls can't hang with the game.
Believe me Coach Hernandez, it is the ideas and philosophies of coaches and parents that cause boys to be chauvinistic...and those attitudes towards girls spill over into everyday thinking. Boys do not think lesser of girls because they are born with that thinking...it is taught to them in very subtle ways. I know the male ego is one that you have to tip toe around, but, I assure you....not one boys' masculinity is threatened on my daughter's team by her presence there! Females are nothing to be afraid of...they just want to be allowed to dream the same dreams that males have....even if those dream are sometimes "unconventional" ones...like wanting to play football.

*stepping down from the soapbox*