Unless you believe being female is a crippling disability that must be overcome, those situations are not the same.bear2be2 said:Jack Bauer said:bear2be2 said:Jack Bauer said:Criticizing her performance equals attacking her?bear2be2 said:Jack Bauer said:bear2be2 said:Jack Bauer said:The blind snapper was a pseudo Make a Wish play for a hard working young man. That's all it was. Nobody speculated that disabled players would just start playing more on football teams.Carlos Safety said:bear2be2 said:A blind snapper won this same award out of the Pac-12 in 2017. No one threw a fit.Jack Bauer said:
Here we go, I think an ESPY is coming soon.
The same people *****ing about Fuller now correctly thought it was a really cool story.
Just a guess. I bet not a soul on this board knew about the Pac 12 blind snapper in 2017. Maybe you did, but I bet that is it.
But Sarah Fuller has "changed the game" and "shattered glass ceilings" with her one "historical" kick.
First of all, no one thinks women are going to take over college football. So that's an irrational fear from the jump.
That said, what would be the major problem with more qualified women having the opportunity to play if they really wanted it? Those opportunities would be limited primarily to place kicking roles, so physical danger isn't a major risk. So what's the real hang up here?
What is the strawman you keep putting up? There is no restriction for women to tryout for college football, NFL, NBA, MLB, etc. If you make the team, good for you. Where are these "qualified women"? Sarah Fuller has been at Vandy for 4 years, why didn't she tryout sooner?
There's no statutory restriction to women playing football, but their inclusion clearly isn't welcomed by many fans. This Fuller story and the response to it is proof of that. That's precisely why pioneers are important. They take the heat and break down barriers so future generations don't have to. You may think Fuller is a joke. But if she inspires young girls in the future who have more kicking talent than she does to play and makes their path to success easier, that's a good thing. And she will have served an important function.
And Fuller didn't try out for lots of reasons probably. Included among those is likely the fact that she didn't feel like she could. It's also likely true that she wasn't good enough until a specific set of circumstances made her the best available option. Where you look at those circumstances and attack her and others for exploiting the situation, I applaud her for going out on that limb. An opportunity arose and she took it. Good for her.
You realize fans "attack" every single athlete every week (ask Charlie Brewer). If she had kicked it even to the 20 yard line, she would have some credibility to being there.
ESPN said she will be "immortalized" in college football now. SEC said she has "changed the game". What she did was fill in and do an average job. Good for her for stepping up but there is nothing more to this story than a squib kick.
Have we set the bar so low for women that we give them a participation trophy for such a performance? Women want equality? Great, you get to take the good with the bad.
If a random male student won an open tryout and kicked the exact same squib kick, it wouldn't have received half the scrutiny. In fact, it wouldn't have received any. And before you say it wouldn't have received half the fanfare, you should remember how big a story the Tech kicker that came out of the stands to earn the job a few years ago was.
Fuller was asked to do a job and she did it. The only reason she's being criticized right now is because she's a woman and that's being celebrated.
The only reason she won Special teams player of the week is solely because she is a female. No media outlet would even report on a 30 yard squib kick from a male in a meaningless game.
That's fine. I agree. The same was true of the blind snapper in 2017. Why the disparate response?