One of the many joys of watching sports these days is that you get warmed over, ham-handed leftist politics thrown in your face all the time. The NFL has printed the words “End Racism” in the end zones for several years now, for example. It apparently hasn’t worked yet because the message is still there. Or maybe racism is solved and they just forgot to remove it. In any event, the NFL isn’t alone. The U.S. Open just plastered “Equal Pay” propaganda all over the court. Major League Baseball even had “BLM” stenciled on the mound for a while there. And so on.
It’s so pervasive, and so on-the-nose, that it’s enough to make you give up on professional sports entirely. On Saturdays you might find yourself taking a hard look at, say, third-rate Division III college football games instead. You might think: Surely all the social engineering won’t be on display there, right? How much of this insanity could have possibly filtered down into a game no one’s watching, like the matchup between, oh I don’t know, Shenandoah University and Juniata College from last weekend?
If you’ve ever found yourself thinking along those lines, unfortunately we have some bad news. Even the D-list football games — including the game between Shenandoah and that other school — have become yet another opportunity for corporate media to tell you that two-plus-two equals seven. They are more grist for the leftist ideology mill that has its tentacles everywhere.
Here’s the “Today” show to explain the significance of Shenandoah’s recent, highly anticipated game:
It’s important to note a couple of things. First of all, they got the facts wrong. Haley Van Voorhis was not, in fact, the first female non-kicker or punter to play in an NCAA game. That honor went to cornerback Taylor Crout, who played a game for Fitchburg State earlier this year. Nobody remembers that because Crout managed to make one “assisted tackle” before leaving the game. But as long as facts matter, which they clearly don’t because the point of this segment is to advance a fraudulent narrative anyway, we’ll throw that out there.
But more to the point, there’s another unanswered question, which is: How does NBC News know that Haley was in fact the first female playing in a non-kicking role? If a female is anyone who thinks they’re a female — and that’s the standard we must accept, or else we’re transphobes — then how do we know that dozens of other brave females aren’t playing college football right now? How do we know that women haven’t already been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Has anyone checked with Dick Butkus or Ray Lewis to see if they still identify as men?
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When the Left talks about homosexuality in contexts like this, they use the term “openly gay.” They’ll say that so-and-so was the first “openly homosexual” person to play football, or whatever. But in this case, they’re not using that terminology. They’re not talking about “openly female” or “openly women” players here. They’re not saying that Haley is the first “openly female” non-kicking player. They’re flat-out declaring that she’s the first female player and the first woman. It’s almost as if the Left knows that those words have meaning, and every now and then, they accidentally admit it.
But back to this “history-making” game. Let’s take another look at why everyone is pretending to celebrate why Haley did. Here’s the sum total of her contribution to the game:
Notice she doesn’t answer the question there. “Did that quarterback know what or who had hit him?” Her response was: “Uh, I’ve had people come up to me and tell me they didn’t know I was a girl.”
This is just speculation of course, but maybe she’s dodging the question because the quarterback knew exactly what had happened there. And maybe he let her know about it. This woman just ran at him, totally unblocked, and then for some reason, decided to cling onto him long after he threw the ball to his receiver. Eventually, after a couple of seconds, she drags him to the turf, almost like it’s happening in slow motion. In any other context, that’s a roughing the passer penalty worth 15 yards. It’s so clear that, if it was a man making the play, a ref standing in the end zone 80 yards away would throw that flag. There would be flags falling out of the sky everywhere.
But none of the refs wanted to interrupt the girl power moment here, and neither did anyone else watching this. So everyone just pretended they had seen something really impressive. Here’s how the Washington Post described the footage you just saw: “She got through and managed to hit Juniata quarterback Calvin German an instant after he had released the ball on what became an incomplete pass.”
An instant, several seconds, what’s the difference really? And she “managed to get through” by simply running straight at the guy, unblocked. For his part, sports journalist Dov Kleiman said this was a “groundbreaking” moment in college football history. He said, “Haley Van Voorhis entered the game during the first quarter, immediately leaving her mark with a QB hurry on a crucial third-down play.”
To be clear, her team was up 26 to nothing at the time of this “crucial third-down play” in the first quarter. They ultimately won this game, 48 to 7. There are no crucial plays in a game that ends 48 to 7, especially not in the first quarter. But who’s counting? In fact, there would not have been a camera crew from ESPN watching this game at all, if they didn’t think this gender angle might come into play.
But she was put in the game, as ESPN expected. And so now we’re all supposed to imagine that this was a really momentous, movie-like moment. Here’s how the “Today” show played up Haley’s “tackle” — not a QB rush, but a “tackle,” in their words:
Here’s where they lay the propaganda on a little too thick. And they introduce an idea that isn’t just stupid, but also very dangerous: “Women can play the game at whatever level,” Haley says. The NBC anchorwoman agrees, and says Haley is overcoming “stereotypes” held by troglodytes who don’t “think women can play at this level.”
Before I get into the implications of that — which could very soon lead to a lot of dead women on football fields — it’s important to understand the scope of the problem here. This is not a one-off incident. College football teams are increasingly promoting the idea that women and men can play at the same level.
Also last weekend, a woman named Leilani Armenta was handling kicking duties for Jackson State. There were a couple of injuries, so the coaches put her in. This is for their matchup against the powerhouse players for “Bethune-Cookman.” Here’s how her kickoff went:
Things we love to see 🔥@GoJSUTigersSOC's Leilani Armenta is filling in at kicker tonight for @gojsutigersfb 👏 #ThatsaW pic.twitter.com/xs3d4qpmpl
— espnW (@espnW) September 23, 2023
It goes 25 whole yards. It’s the kind of kicking you see on a bad high school JV team. A lot of people went on social media to suggest that maybe it was a bad idea to have a woman attempt this kick, because it’s kind of an obvious point to make. So, again, sports journalists — maybe the dumbest and least original form of “journalist” on the planet — jumped into action. Here’s how one local reporter named Bradley Davis responded to all the haters online who had an issue with that objectively terrible kickoff. Watch:
Addressing the hateful comments in response to Jackson State football using a woman at kicker in its home opener.#TheeILove pic.twitter.com/NJLp1eNFNs
— Bradley Davis (@DdavisBradley) September 25, 2023
This is not to pick on Bradley Davis. He’s obviously a smug guy, out there saying what he has to say if he ever wants to advance in the industry of sports journalism. This was his ESPN audition tape. But it’s worth nothing that he’s presenting an embarrassingly bad argument that’s typical on the Left.
First of all, there’s no reason for Bradley Davis to be talking about this woman’s extra point attempts in high school. She wasn’t kicking extra points in the clip we just showed you, she was attempting a kickoff, which requires more leg strength than an extra point to pull off. And she completely failed and humiliated herself in the process of attempting that kickoff. This is a pretty significant fact that Bradley Davis somehow forgot to mention.
But let’s just ignore that for a second. The thrust of this smug reporter’s “argument” is that, first of all, people are only criticizing her terrible kick because she’s a woman. But if you’ve spent even five seconds around any football fan, anywhere, you know that they will viciously criticize any player who screws up that badly. A male kicker who only manages to send the ball 25 yards will certainly be mocked ruthlessly for it. So if you want women to be treated like men, accepted into the boy’s club and all of that, then it means they will also be ruthlessly criticized for their failures, because that’s what it means to be treated like a man. That’s how we men operate.
The reporter also says that unless you can kick extra points as well as this woman, then you should shut up. You’re not allowed to have any kind of opinion on this topic whatsoever. What’s impressive about this line of argument is what a massive, absurd strawman it is. No one is saying that any random guy off the street could beat this woman in an impromptu extra-point competition. She’s been kicking extra points for years, and most people have never even tried to kick an extra point. The point is that the best women football players, at all positions, are nowhere near as good as the best male football players at that position — or even the tenth best male football players, or 50th best. We know that because there has never been a female player — this woman most certainly included — who can outperform men at a high level of play. We also know it because biology is real, and men have dramatically more upper and lower-body strength than women.
This is why, literally every time they trot out a woman substitute for a male player in football, it’s a catastrophe. Remember Sarah Fuller? She “made history” as a female college football kicker a few years ago. She kicked it something like 30 yards and the media lied after the fact to claim that it was a planned “squib kick” — even though it was a situation where no team would intentionally squib the ball. In case you’ve forgotten that historic kick, it’s worth revisiting it — including the build-up beforehand — because it’s truly a modern classic. Watch:
Notice how the crowd is really excited and loud, and then they see the kick and go completely silent. Meanwhile the announcers continue to read their prepared lines, like they just witnessed the moon landing. “What a day in college football,” they declare, after witnessing the worst kick anyone would see until the next time a woman kicked the ball.
It’s impossible not to notice just how patronizing all of this is. Jackie Robinson is remembered and celebrated not just because he broke the color line, but because he was a truly great player. When we talk about Jackie Robinson we’re not saying “Wow look at that black player trying his best! Isn’t it cute?” No, he actually earned the respect he gets for his play. He’s one of the all time greats. But as the media desperately tries to find their female Jackie Robinson, it never works like this. The girls are laughably awful and everyone can tell they don’t deserve to be on the field. It turns out that unlike the color line, the gender line exists for a very legitimate reason.
Sarah Fuller’s historically awful kick was only a few years ago. Now we’ve already gotten to the point where a college football team is putting a 5’6″ blond chick on the field to play defense. Fortunately for her, the other team didn’t pull a guard over to make a block with a head of steam, knocking her into next week. When women are on the field, the players so far have been playing along and letting her have her Rudy moment. But it’s not going to stay like that forever.
Eventually one of these guys will treat one of these girls like a football player, and it’s quite possible that we’ll see a death on the field because of it. Then the male player will be demonized and have to live with the trauma the rest of his life, when really it’s the fault of the school and the media that valued girl power over the safety of the players. This will happen. Even in this modern woke era, the football field is still a place where very big and fast men violently clash. You keep throwing women into that mix and it won’t be long before something very bad happens. Which is why, in a sane society, women would be banned from competing against men in violent sports like this. In the past, no such rule was necessary because nobody was crazy enough to actually put a woman on the field. Now people are that crazy, and so we need policies that reflect that reality.
But nationally, everyone is ignoring the reality. Colleges and corporate media are insisting, with a straight face, that women should be playing football with men. If you ask any questions about this, sports reporters will lecture you and call you a bigot. This was always the inevitable end result of the theatrical game of make-believe that we’re all supposed to take part in. The underlying message, as always, is that men and women are exactly the same. But everyone knows that isn’t true. And one thing we’ve learned time and time again is that eventually, one way or another, reality always reasserts itself. Especially on the football field. And when it does, you’re not going to like the result.
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