Are You Ready for Some (Women’s) Football?
It did not make much of a splash, but in mid-October the Women’s Professional Football League (WPFL) began play with 11 teams around the country. Believe it or not the WPFL isn’t the first attempt to kick off a women’s football league — in 1965 a professional women’s league was formed in the Ohio area, and in 1974 the National Women’s Football League formed and managed to hang out until the early 1980s.
Will women’s football ever catch on? Yes and no.
No it will never be even close the men’s version, if only because the market is already saturated with college and professional football. While there are some women who are talented enough to play positions such as kicker for men’s teams, I seriously doubt anyone could put together a women’s professional team that was on par with even a Division I football team.
On the other hand yes. Football diehards just can’t get enough and there are semi-professional football leagues and teams throughout the nation. These are people who are typically college players who weren’t good enough to play professionally but love the game and play it in a very organized setting for the enjoyment and pride they take in it.
I think a women’s semiprofessional league could certainly take off; I know I’d go to watch it just like I turn out for the men’s semiprofessional teams in the area. There’s just something about people putting on pads and hitting each other that is uplifting to the human spirit.
Source:
A League of Their Own. Dan Harris, ABCNews.Com, October 15, 2000.
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