That tweet was linked here because of its stupidity. Anyone, with any experience in goal, knows a goalie isn't scared of taking a hit (or delivering one.) That position takes balls of steel.
š Sarah Fuller kicks for Vandy against Mizzou. (UPDATE- Fuller named SEC Special Teams SEC Player of the Week)
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50+yeartidefan
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At 35. Really. Fair catch the start at 25...
Nothing like having a small typo pointed out...refer to the graph I posted in the G,B, and U thread and you'll get the picture.
This whole story reminds me of all those fans who blast a kicker missing a short kick with claims, "I can do that at my age." Here, they've seen the kick and immediately start their criticisms without actually acknowledging the play that was call: executed.
The nationwide love-affair with those is certainly opening Pandora's box. So many approve of her play yesterday while citing history. How would they feel if it were a male goalie in women's soccer, or running track ...
What's good for the gander isn't good for the goose: duplicity at its purest form.
50+yeartidefan
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Sorry.... about pointing out the typo....
Another thing that "bothered" me about this whole story was the lack of coverage of Katie Hnida: she was the first to score in a FBS game back in the early part of this century. She was originally at Colorado under Barnett where she claimed he called her a cunt and claimed she'd been raped at a players party...transferred to NM where she made a few extra points.
Billie Jean got the attention and I understand that. I guess no one wanted to touch Katie's story.
Billie Jean got the attention and I understand that. I guess no one wanted to touch Katie's story.
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WHITLOCK: SARAH FULLER PUBLICITY STUNT SCORES IN MAKE-A-WISH CULTURE WAR
The people who hate football and the people who spent the whole summer trying to cancel college football over COVID concerns came together to celebrate the game Saturday.
Sarah Fuller briefly made football socially acceptable for Americaās most ardent virtue-signalers. That was her primary accomplishment, pleasing Make A Wish America.
At the beginning of the second half of Vanderbiltās SEC football game against Missouri, Fuller trotted onto the field for the opening kickoff. She knocked the ball to the Missouri 37-yard line and immediately jogged to the sideline out of harmās way.
The moment was hailed as history. ESPNās SportsCenter Twitter account claimed Fullerās kick changed the game. Others said she made history. Sheās the first woman to play in a Power 5 football game.
I donāt believe she played football. She scored a point in the culture war. The people who believe the only difference between men and women is in how they choose to identify consider Fuller a poor womanās Jackie Robinson.
She broke big time footballās gender barrier.
But did she?
Jackie Robinson was Major League Baseballās rookie of the year in 1947. He finished fifth in MVP voting. In order to break the color barrier, Robinson had to play at a Hall of Fame level on Day 1. And he had to do it while facing a grotesque level of harassment.
Sarah Fuller received a standing ovation for kicking the ball 30 yards or so and high-tailing it to the sidelines to be greeted by the winless head coach using her to save his job.
This wasnāt Jackie Robinson 2.0. It was Make A Wish.
I donāt blame Sarah Fuller. Sheās an accomplished, high-level Division 1 athlete. Sheās a soccer goalie for the Vanderbilt womenās soccer team. Sheās been baited into believing competing against men is her North star. Maybe it is. It shouldnāt be.
Vanderbilt doesnāt have a menās soccer team. Positive COVID tests created the need for Vanderbilt to find a kicker this week.
Credit coach Derek Mason for dampening a finger and recognizing the biggest wish among football haters is that women play with and coach men. In the NFL, Tampa Bay coach Bruce Arians felt the same wind blowing and is one of the leagueās most popular coaches because heās named a couple of women to his staff.
Two years ago, Toyota paid broadcaster Jim Nantz to voice a commercial that created the legend that a young girl, Toni Harris, earned a football scholarship. Harris was on a high school team in Detroit, but only took the field a couple of times during her ācareer.ā She didnāt earn a football scholarship.
The culture warriors gave Harris one as a part of their Make A Wish program. They put her in a national TV commercial, too. Thereās a lot of money being spent to create the illusion that women can and should be playing football against men.
The people spending the money hate football. It epitomizes ātoxic masculinityāā¦ except when women are on the field. Football should also be shuttered because of the head trauma dangersā¦ unless women are playing. Oh, and during this COVID pandemic, itās irresponsible for these Power 5 schools to exploit these college athletesā¦ unless thereās a woman playing.
My critics will argue Iām threatened by women playing football. No. Not at all. If theyāre good enough, who cares?
My gripe is that it diminishes these female athletes. Sarah Fuller is an elite soccer player. Sheās a terrible football player, arguably the worst to ever take the field in the SEC. The announcers during the game said Mason wasnāt comfortable using her kick field goals unless they were inside the 15-yard line. There were pictures of her warming up in pregame kicking 14-yard field goals.
Her athleticism does not need to be validated by competing against men in any capacity, let alone in a sport that is not her specialty. Treating Sarah Fuller like sheās a special-needs kid does not uplift the cause of equality.
The overwhelming majority of people know this. The American media has been hijacked by activists and social media apps designed to amplify the voices of the illogical.
Saturday morning via Twitter I asked a couple of harmless questions: 1) Does Vanderbilt have a menās soccer team? 2) Did Vanderbilt choose the best candidate or the most publicity?
My mentions were overrun with negativity. You would have thought Iād spoken poorly of a religious figure. You wouldāve thought most of America disagreed with my skepticism.
When I published a poll asking what was the driving force powering Vanderbiltās decision to use Fuller as a kicker, 15,000 people responded within an hour. Forty-two percent of the respondents said Vanderbilt was virtue signaling. Another 39 percent said it was a publicity stunt.
Most people agreed with me.
The purpose of Twitter is to program the mainstream media into promoting lunacy. Mission accomplished. Sarah Fuller is Jackie Robinson.
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The people who hate football and the people who spent the whole summer trying to cancel college football over COVID concerns came together to celebrate the game Saturday.
Sarah Fuller briefly made football socially acceptable for Americaās most ardent virtue-signalers. That was her primary accomplishment, pleasing Make A Wish America.
At the beginning of the second half of Vanderbiltās SEC football game against Missouri, Fuller trotted onto the field for the opening kickoff. She knocked the ball to the Missouri 37-yard line and immediately jogged to the sideline out of harmās way.
The moment was hailed as history. ESPNās SportsCenter Twitter account claimed Fullerās kick changed the game. Others said she made history. Sheās the first woman to play in a Power 5 football game.
I donāt believe she played football. She scored a point in the culture war. The people who believe the only difference between men and women is in how they choose to identify consider Fuller a poor womanās Jackie Robinson.
She broke big time footballās gender barrier.
But did she?
Jackie Robinson was Major League Baseballās rookie of the year in 1947. He finished fifth in MVP voting. In order to break the color barrier, Robinson had to play at a Hall of Fame level on Day 1. And he had to do it while facing a grotesque level of harassment.
Sarah Fuller received a standing ovation for kicking the ball 30 yards or so and high-tailing it to the sidelines to be greeted by the winless head coach using her to save his job.
This wasnāt Jackie Robinson 2.0. It was Make A Wish.
I donāt blame Sarah Fuller. Sheās an accomplished, high-level Division 1 athlete. Sheās a soccer goalie for the Vanderbilt womenās soccer team. Sheās been baited into believing competing against men is her North star. Maybe it is. It shouldnāt be.
Vanderbilt doesnāt have a menās soccer team. Positive COVID tests created the need for Vanderbilt to find a kicker this week.
Credit coach Derek Mason for dampening a finger and recognizing the biggest wish among football haters is that women play with and coach men. In the NFL, Tampa Bay coach Bruce Arians felt the same wind blowing and is one of the leagueās most popular coaches because heās named a couple of women to his staff.
Two years ago, Toyota paid broadcaster Jim Nantz to voice a commercial that created the legend that a young girl, Toni Harris, earned a football scholarship. Harris was on a high school team in Detroit, but only took the field a couple of times during her ācareer.ā She didnāt earn a football scholarship.
The culture warriors gave Harris one as a part of their Make A Wish program. They put her in a national TV commercial, too. Thereās a lot of money being spent to create the illusion that women can and should be playing football against men.
The people spending the money hate football. It epitomizes ātoxic masculinityāā¦ except when women are on the field. Football should also be shuttered because of the head trauma dangersā¦ unless women are playing. Oh, and during this COVID pandemic, itās irresponsible for these Power 5 schools to exploit these college athletesā¦ unless thereās a woman playing.
My critics will argue Iām threatened by women playing football. No. Not at all. If theyāre good enough, who cares?
My gripe is that it diminishes these female athletes. Sarah Fuller is an elite soccer player. Sheās a terrible football player, arguably the worst to ever take the field in the SEC. The announcers during the game said Mason wasnāt comfortable using her kick field goals unless they were inside the 15-yard line. There were pictures of her warming up in pregame kicking 14-yard field goals.
Her athleticism does not need to be validated by competing against men in any capacity, let alone in a sport that is not her specialty. Treating Sarah Fuller like sheās a special-needs kid does not uplift the cause of equality.
The overwhelming majority of people know this. The American media has been hijacked by activists and social media apps designed to amplify the voices of the illogical.
Saturday morning via Twitter I asked a couple of harmless questions: 1) Does Vanderbilt have a menās soccer team? 2) Did Vanderbilt choose the best candidate or the most publicity?
My mentions were overrun with negativity. You would have thought Iād spoken poorly of a religious figure. You wouldāve thought most of America disagreed with my skepticism.
When I published a poll asking what was the driving force powering Vanderbiltās decision to use Fuller as a kicker, 15,000 people responded within an hour. Forty-two percent of the respondents said Vanderbilt was virtue signaling. Another 39 percent said it was a publicity stunt.
Most people agreed with me.
The purpose of Twitter is to program the mainstream media into promoting lunacy. Mission accomplished. Sarah Fuller is Jackie Robinson.
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50+yeartidefan
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kinda sad. But i cant believe the REAL men on the team wouldnt stand up for her. And with her. Noone would call my female friend that. Period.
standing up for a female. A friend. A coworker. A teammate
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Found it - also itās Univ of West Alabama now:
āCongrats to Sarah Fuller, but remember Tonya Butler was the first woman to kick a field goal in an NCAA game for West Alabama on 9/13/03. In the first game of the 2003 season she made a 27-yard field goal and was the placekicker in both the 2003 and 2004 seasons. She made 13-of-19 field career field goal attempts and was 48-of-53 on era point attempts. Her 50 total points led the UWA team in 2003. She was voted special teams captain in both her seasons as a Tiger.ā
āCongrats to Sarah Fuller, but remember Tonya Butler was the first woman to kick a field goal in an NCAA game for West Alabama on 9/13/03. In the first game of the 2003 season she made a 27-yard field goal and was the placekicker in both the 2003 and 2004 seasons. She made 13-of-19 field career field goal attempts and was 48-of-53 on era point attempts. Her 50 total points led the UWA team in 2003. She was voted special teams captain in both her seasons as a Tiger.ā
She has the deeper voice, for sure...boy, that guy got savaged during the Bama game.
I was hanging around a bit today, picked up the Sunday local show on Jox, guy and a gal. She went on about how Colorado had a female kicker years years ago who walked on, did everything with the team, the whole thing. It didn't work out and she transferred to NM or NM State and she scored as a kicker in a game. The lady said that this media hubbub was about the social awareness movement trying to show that women were just as good as those toxic males. I would've called in and proposed to her, but that would've been big of me....
That would make her the fourth. Hnida, mentioned earlier, was the third in collegiate football (as a whole.) 2001 was the first in the NCAA at a D-2 school. The first was at a NAIA school in the late nineties. (I'd have to go back and look for those names again...went down that rabbit hole yesterday.)
They've separated the ladies into these groups (from first to last~)
NAIA,
NCAA D2,
NCAA D1 (now FBS,)
and Power Five (Sarah.)
I know the al.com He/Him's will call me triggered, but this is taking a somewhat neat moment (even if it was a publicity stunt), stripping it of it's legitimacy and turning it into a disingenuous Upwards Football type moment.
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planomateo
Member
If one of the guys kick off like that! I'm wondering if these guys would get SEC player of the week! I think she could have drop kick it better.
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