Comments on: Girl Commits Sin By Playing High School Football?

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prayers for blowouts » Blog Archive » Notes & Quotes: 11.12.08 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:25:59 +0000

[...] In case you missed it, Kacy Stuart’s dad responded to the story we posted the other day (Kacy is the 14-year old girl who kicks for her high school football team). Here was the response [...]

By: kickers dad

kickers dad — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:07 +0000

Thanks for the comments. I am Kacys dad. The underlying reason appears not to be religion here. It appears to me that it is a crutch being used by 2 or 3 of the board members of the GFL. Kacy was reinstated, and played in her 2nd game(state quarter finals) on November 8th. There were no rules against girls being allowed to play, contrary to some reports. We all know that in bylaws even for private schools athletics, exclusions have to be listed, IF you want to exclude a particular group of people. Once Kacy made the team, they were appalled that a female was on one of the teams. Having nothing in the rules to back them up, (and i may add weeks later) come up with this prophecy that it is against their christian beliefs that she should compete. By the way, the Mustangs coach, to which Kacy played against in her first game, was unable to field a kicker to kick the pat. Real hard to make the argument that a girl shouldn’t be kicking when you cant field a guy to make a 20 pat huh.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:15:19 +0000

So, check it out:
In my hometown there was a chick quarterback on one of the high school football teams, and she sucked. She couldn’t throw worth beans, she missed the hike half the time, and she tripped over her own feet enough to get sacked at least once per game.
However, her parents threatened to sue, so the school was forced to keep her on the team. I don’t think they won a single game until she graduated.

So my rule for girls playing sports is the same as for women in law enforcement: If they can keep up, let them play. If my guy friends start a game of pickup football, I’ll probably join in, because I can play decently well. But I wouldn’t try out for the high school team (even though I wanted to) because I knew that I wouldn’t make it.

Same thing for women cops. Don’t change the rules for them- make them keep up with the men. A suspect is not going to slow down because he knows a woman is chasing him. If she is buff enough to take ‘em down, let her do it.

I think the greater sin here is the blatant misuse of Scripture. If the girl is “conforming” to the world, why isn’t the rest of the team also committing that sin? I don’t remember Romans 12:1 being directed only at women.

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By: Chris Hubbs

Chris Hubbs — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:43:31 +0000

Be all over them like you’d be all over a guy. Whatever that means.

Hey, let’s face it, I don’t play defense quite *that* tight. Mostly it’s awkward when blocking out and posting up. OTOH, most of them are short enough that I don’t really have to block out or post up… just reaching up usually does the trick.

By: Ron Davis

Ron Davis — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:53:27 +0000

Be all over them like you’d be all over a guy. Whatever that means.

By: Chris Hubbs

Chris Hubbs — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:47 +0000

You know, Ron, that reminds me – we have an all-girls team in our work basketball league. It’s the most awkward thing trying to figure out how to defend them….

By: Ron Davis

Ron Davis — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:15:18 +0000

That’s absurd.

I grew up in a Christian school. One year in soccer (no football team…) we played a school that was too small to have an all-guy soccer team. I think there were 3 girls on it. We didn’t know until the day of the game, and though nobody thought it wrong or evil (or worthy of a public misrepresentation of Scripture), it did throw us off our game.

We were not as aggressive when the girls got the ball, and the other team was glad to take advantage of that. At halftime our coach told us to forget all we had ever learned about how to treat women and to play like they were guys (with certain other features).

We ended up winning (barely), and we never played them again. Honestly, I’m glad that we didn’t have to do that more than once.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:09:14 +0000

Absolutely ri-di-cu-lous. At least in football there’s pads and such. Girls wrestling boys is even more odd.

But Romans 12:2? Surprised he didn’t break out Exodus 21. Apparently, as long as the girl is not a player’s mother or pregnant then game on!

If a girl wants to play football, let her play. If my daughter could kick better than the boys, I would send her on the field.

By: Chris Hubbs

Chris Hubbs — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:09:25 +0000

I’m the oldest of five kids – four boys and then a girl. My sister grew up playing hockey with her brothers and is happy to lay a check on anyone, anytime. Now, the protective big brother in me would encourage her to stay off the ice if she got to the point where she was physically outmatched and in greater danger of injury… but that hasn’t happened yet.

A sin? Certainly not. Besides, that 14-year-old is the kicker on the football team. If they hit her, it’s a penalty.