High school's kicker makes 50 yard field goals, but not allowed to play because she's a girl

yeah thats stupid, there are plenty of nfl players that have a hard time kicking 50 yarderz, its not as easy as it looks

This made me mad! A lot of schools have or have had girl players for the last 10 - 20 years. The Georgia Football league needs to get out of the dark ages.

she should find the executive board and kick them all in the nuts.

the exectuive board is "no good"

it's always the "wide right" losers

her being a girl is just "extra points" for the team in my playbook.

wow my jokes suck today.

Who cares what sex she is!? She can kick a freaking 50 yard field goal!

Why not join the girls team

Wow this has to be one of the most cliched stories I have ever heard. Not to sound insensitive but hasn't every heard of this at least one in their life time. Why can't people just realize that this is one of those trends that is not going to go away and just go with it?

I don't think there are any all-girl football teams anywhere that are allowed to compete at the level this girl plays. In fact, the last all girl football game I heard about was the insultingly gendered Bra Bowl; you know, that promotional event that was more model on model softcore porn than a real competition.

Any guesses as to why this is? I'll give you a hint: check the genders and politics of the board members of this Georgia Football League... (or any sports board of directors, for that matter)

Gendering sports is a fairly obvious and ridiculous attempt to maintain that last bastion of "male dominance."

After all, what on earth would we do if more women started beating "our boys" and stopped "looking pretty?" /sarcasm

Are they serious?
This is like one of those corny ABC after school specials
Are they gonna band dancing next.

Where's Kevin Bacon when you need him

i don't see why she can't play, my school had a girl kicker and she was pretty good adn it did not effect teh way the game wa played at all so it shouldn't matter

There was girl that played strong-side outside linebacker when I was in high school. This was in Missouri in 1991. Apparently she was pretty good too. Had my team made the playoffs, we would have faced her team in the first round and, as my team's starting tight end, I would have lined up against her for most of the game.

I was admittedly a little nervous about the prospect of competing against her. Part of it was that the physical, at times brutal, nature of the game and the possibility that I could severely injure her. The other part was that she would be better than I was and embarrass or injure me!

We missed the playoffs and I breathed a sigh of relief. I'm not sure what condition my ego would have been in after that confrontation. :)

this is really unfortunate. i can definitely see a lawsuit coming out of this

Stupid and sexist. Where in the rulebook does it say girls cannot play football?

I smell lawsuit...

Um...PEOPLE, it's a Conservative Christian group. Girls have to be taking the home economics classes and whatnot. I'm going to write a blog about this...

A timeline of girls playing tackle football:
http://www.fortunecity.com/wembley/mueller/641/princesses/timeline.html

And an ESPN report about a 5'9", 140-pound girl throwing for 3 touchdown passes in a 2005 high school football game in California. This report states that "253 girls out of 100,000 high school students in California who are playing football this year, according to the California Interscholastic Foundation".
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=2187201

Apparently, women have been playing football for a lot longer than I would have guessed, and there are a lot more playing today than I thought would be.

Sorry, but why should they have to let her play? The team is all male and so is the league. They shouldn't change the rules for one person. She can join a girl's team if she wants. If there isn't one, blame the school or district. Get involved and start one. But she won't be playing in the NFL anyway.

They were afraid of embarrassing the boys on the opposing team, I know I would be put to shame.

Haven't we learned anything from watching the Brady bunch... equal rights for the opposite sex.

Christians are always looking for someone to beat on

WHAT?! Come on. I thought we destroyed sexism years ago...

She should have been allowed to play. I know where they're thinking but the thinking is being put into the wrong situation. I would understand if a random girl in PE class wants to play football with the guys (I tried). But, she's a really good athlete who should be allowed to kick the damn ball! XD