NEW YORK – The NFL announced last night that, starting in 2012, the league will allow women to play.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made the announcement to a group of reporters outside the NFL headquarters in New York City early Wednesday evening. He said he hoped the decision to include female players would convey the NFL’s more “feminine” and “progressive” sides.
“Times are changing,” said Goodell, “the military is about to allow women into combat. If women are going to be fighting on the battlefield, how can we stop them from participating in football. It’s not fair The NFL is open to all players now – regardless of gender.”
According to the new rule book, each NFL team must be composed of equal parts male and female players. Of those female players, 75 percent must be active at all times, and every active female player must touch the football at least once during a game.
Feminists are applauding Goodell and the NFL. They have long accused the National Football League of being sexist and bigoted. Fairness on the Field, a women’s rights group in Chicago who once sued the NFL for discrimination, has been lobbying the league to change its gender policies for decades. They are counting the NFL’s co-ed rule as a major victory.
“We couldn’t be more ecstatic,” said Kate Hohner, the group’s president. “The National Football league was once considered a bastion of masculinity. That women can now participate in it is a huge step for gender equality.”
According to sources inside the NFL, the so called “co-ed rule” will take effect at the beginning of the 2012 season. That means that the upcoming Super Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers will be the last NFL Championship played by all-male teams.
The league will hold an NFL combine for women in April, said one NFL spokesman.
Deloris Green, a 30-year-old weightlifter from Marietta, Georgia, is planning to tryout as a walk-on running back for the Atlanta Falcons.
“I’m gonna get out there and show those guys what a real lady can do,” said Green, who clocks an impressive 4.50 on the 40-yard dash and can squat press 350 lbs. “If they could draft a sissy-boy like Tom Brady into the league, there’s no reason they wouldn’t pick a woman like me.”
Despite its overwhelming acceptance amongst women, the NFL’s decision to go co-ed does not sit well with some the league’s male fans. These NFL purists feel that football is inarguably a man’s sport.
“This is absolutely ridiculous,” said Jon Bovary, an irate football fan and male chauvinist from Detroit. “Once they let women play in the NFL, they’re going to have to let everyone play – children, animals, midgets, inanimate objects. Where will they draw the line?”
Overall, the new co-ed rule has received positive reactions from the league’s corporate sponsors.
In support of the rule change, the Reebok Corporation has partnered with the National Football League to launch their “Beauty and Grace Factor,” a line of pads and jerseys made exclusively for female football players.
Riddell, the equipment company that provides helmets and supportive undergarments to the NFL, will also produce a line of jockstraps and athletic cups designed for women.
According to a poll taken by National Football League, over 88 percent of active players say they approve of new rule change. However, they did raise some relevant concerns.
“Will we have to share our locker rooms with the female players?” said Steelers quarterback, Ben Rothlisberger. “Because if we do, that’s totally cool with me!”
This will be the last all-male Super Bowl… so enjoy it!
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If this is true I would try out. I've been told by a lot of "Men" I throw a football like. a man. I can Tackle like a man.. I've had dreams of this for years!
Are women on here really saying they or some other fuckin girl they know could make an NFL team if they trained? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH for the love of god man when are women gonna fall back and know their fuckin roll. yalls fake ass PC era confidence is getting truely outragous these days. some bitch above me posted "women run in heels and survive breast cancer and have periods" LOL
jimisha burnside – you wont make an NFL team because you choose not to? LOL itts a little harder then just wanting to make a team you fuckin moron
Make them change in the mens lockerroom.Theres plenty of women reporters in it already.
I think this is a good thing but what happens when you've got a female quarterback getting sacked and injured by some 300 Ib DB? He's gonna get shunned and hated by society for hurting a girl in a game where people get hurt.
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My name is Tameka Kelley in I will love to play for the NFL. I'm a female im 24year old. I know im young but I love to play football im the only girl I have 3 bothers in growing up playing football in leaning so many things with them made me realize that football is want I really want to do with my life. The thing is I can't found no team that will like me play for them. So want do u think I should do to make my dream in career happen.
there is no money that many girls sports, because their not that exiting, however girls do make thing interesting so if you let them play in the NFL i think this will open a new world, new challenges, and new moments. There are some good female players out there, better then some in the NFL. I feel like females can play the QB position wide reciever or kicker. For the guy who said what if a line man was to hurt a female QB , well QB always get hurt thats a scary position she will have to prove that shes able to play as a qb just like any playe. so i say yes to women in the nfl
Who does this woman think she is calling Tom brady a " sissy boy"? Tom Brady won three super bowls and she hasn't done s$&@!! Stupid feminist crap!! I can squat 350 pounds. Does that mean I can play in the nfl? I also have a problem with the the entitlement attitude. Why should the team have the roster half female players. You are supposed to earn a spot on a nfl team.
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The way some of the players do their job makes me think the NFL was full of girls for years!!!
why dont you seperate male and female players in different leagues like it is usuall in germany for example?
While I think that this is cool, as a female myself, I believe that the women are getting too many rights. Not to say that we should be oppressed, but I believe that, If they allow women in the NFL, they should be on par with males. If they can manage to keep up, than they can play. The rule that states that they must be active and that the roster must be half women is bull. Just because you are a woman, it doesn't mean that you should get special rights. If you are good, you should play, regardless of gender. Gender doesn't determine skill.
I've just recently started football on my highschool team. I understand that I may not get much playing time, and that my play time is decided by my athletic ability. Just because I am a girl, I don't believe that I should get more time than others or that it's "sexist" if they don't let me play.
tl;dr Play time should be based on skill, not gender.
You're all idiots. This is all fake. Weekly world news is a joke. I follow NFL religiously and this was never a story. It's not a matter gender, but of commen sense. The NFL could completely allow women to play, but they never will. You could take the largest, most athletic, power hungry woman on earth…Clay Matthews would destroy her with no effort. Hell, Matt Forte could take her out and he's just a RB. Think about it, these are not average people playing football. The smallest man in pro nfl could take out the average male in any engagement. Could NFL allow women? Yes. But they would never get picked. EVER. Not sexism. Just common sense.
The only position in the nfl for women would be kickers or special teams. Let's be realistic women no matter how strong they think they are they can never be on the level of a man. God didn't create them to be a strong as a male. No disrespect i love women ! My mother is a woman lol. I think women should have their own national football league. In addition, why not women in the nba less direct punishment on the body. Does the nba know something the nfl don't. Let's see Take the women nba for instance less then ten dunks in its ten year pan women are different athleticly then their males counterparts. Even the nba knows this truth.
obvious troll is obvious
So this is obviously a lie it would be unconstitutional to make teams play women I mean what is this f**kn peewee football wit some upset parents there kids don’t play I’m a 6’3 310 pd college player and I never could have played in the NFL but you women think you deserve to play with those men get f**kn real u all suck u r some what genetically inferior physically sure u can be smart and lawyer but u cannot be as tall u cannot build as much muscle without steroids god just didn’t make us the same so why try to make things I love shitty
i think its a good idea 2 see a girl in an all guz sport but it should be limited 2 1 girl per team me being a girl myself but also it just doesnt seem right having girls playing and we sholdnt have 2 hav a girl on every team just because thers a girl on 1 team and ther shouldnt b specific rules for the girls…in another words ther should be all girls all boys and co-ed not all co-ed it recks traditionall football 2 just because im a girl does not mean i want girls to play and im shore the teams have a probly hav not a good thinking of this
i think girls should be able to play on a mans team because its fair if a man can play football so can woman and nothing will change that.woman should have rights and being a woman and saying that we have to many are wrong u should be ashamed of yourself.
I think men should be allowed to play in the lingerie league
As long as they get to use the same locker room
God, you women are so freaking stupid. It has NOTHING to do with being fair. What are we? Kids fighting over Popsicles? This sport is dangerous. MEN HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO DIE OUT THERE. I just hope you females get ravaged on the field and realize this world wasn't built for equality. We're suppose to embrace our differences and respect. Women wanting to do everything men do, is disrespectful. It's basically saying, you can't do anything we can't. When in fact, we can. And you can do things I can't. But that's the great part about life.
I will never watch football again if they do this shit… I swear.
Smh. You're dumb. Women will be slaughtered out there. Same feminist dumbasses yap all that crap about violence against women then go on pushing for women to be allowed to fight in combat and now the NFL. Act like a man, get handled like one. Next thing you know, the NFL will catch a lawsuit by some liberal feminist organiztion for mistreating women. Hell outta here with that.
El oh el, women.
guys do cheer leading, why can't girls do football?
I think it’s good and bad. I used to play football in high school and I was the only girl on the team and of any team we competed against. I went through a lot of crap but I really enjoyed it. I got hurt a few times but I really didn’t care because I enjoyed it. I think it will be interesting to say the least, but I don’t think they are going to do d enough female players who are really good enough to play nfl within a year. It takes a lot of time and hard work. I think they need to start slower with high school and college football first. As well I think it might be a better thing to just have all girls teams. But then the number of girls playing does lead to an issue with that. Over all I am happy with the choice and intrigued to see how it will go.
I think women should have to register for the draft if they want to play football. No exceptions. I can not think of a more obvious double standard.
ditto. i agree.
screw a bunch of good male players just to prove a sexist point,b.s.
One of the funniest things I have ever read. The quote from the male chauvinist is brilliant!!
Can’t believe how many people think this was true.