i'm a girl who likes or even loves playing football.....and everytime i play with guys they always seem to go easy on me and i absolutely hate that!!i know they want to be careful and all with girls but i am just equally as good.How can i get them to treat me like a real football player?
2007-04-21 18:34:26 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Sorry you can't have this and not get beat up. This is how we think. We had the message pounded into us a young age. 'do not hit girls'
This is better than domestic violence.
2007-04-21 18:37:57 · answer #1 · answered by mbezlr 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but a guy will NEVER treat a girl like a she's a guy when playing football. Guys have it drilled into their heads at a young age to never hit a girl. I can remember when I played football when I was younger. I was always one of the smaller guys, so whenever a girl played I was the one who got to play opposite her. I guess the other guys figured it wouldn't hurt as much if I tackled her, not that they threw the ball to the girls that much. I also tried to make the tackles on the girls so I would take some, if not all, of the impact on hitting the ground. MOST of the tackles I made on girls, had me hitting the ground and the girl landing on me. Yes it hurt sometimes, but I couldn't have done it any other way. That's just how guys are. We cannot play football with a girl and not go easy on her.
2007-04-22 10:24:31 · answer #2 · answered by Tony the Rogue Warrior 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Punch a guy in the face and make him mad. If you want a guy to start treating you the same in a game, you have to act like one of them. If you cant knock one of them off their feet then you shouldnt want them to treat you even, but if you can knock one of them off their feet and run them over then its good. Just keep playing physical against them and they will eventually treat you more and more as an equal.
But as for the reason why. Men are always (in most cases) taught to never hit a woman. This is driven into our minds from a young age, and therefore we are not comfortable with being very physical with a woman especially when we know there is a chance to hurt her. It is a fact of life that women have legs that are equally as strong as mens, but as for the upper body they dont come close. That isnt a sexist statement, its a fact. This is in every guys mind and causes them to feel that you are very frail. If you show them you can knock them over and take a hit, then that is why they will start playing more and more physically with you.
Josh G has a good answer and thats another reason why guys wont hit.
2007-04-22 01:43:45 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Elaine.....
Your Answer is Simple.....
Knock some Dude on his *** in front of The Guys and you will not have any problem with them treating you like a Girl because you will be telling them that You Mean Business on the Field.......
yidlmama is Right!!!
Screw Respect.....It's about Winning!!!
Everytime a Team wins the SuperBowl, people start drinking the Hater-aid by saying it was a Fluke.....
2007-04-22 03:42:41 · answer #4 · answered by Biotech Boy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simple ways include striking back harder and harder, waiting it out, and if that doesnt work you write to your local congressman writing an idea to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to further establish equal oppurtunity of results. That last one was a joke.
Seriously though,..i am glad that you are a female that enjoys football. I wish more girls i knew knew how to play and actually played. So just politley voice your opinion, and if they dont hit u or avoid u, then knock em down and get in their faces. Wish ya the best of luck. Peace out.
2007-04-29 20:13:05 · answer #5 · answered by tiki_barber_90 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"How can I get them to treat me like a real football player?"
You have to act like one, you have to be one.
#1) Tackle them 100%.
#2) Talk **** to them afterwards.
#3) Be ready for the same towards you.
If you SERIOUSLY want them to treat you like 'one of the guys'... then get ready to hurt.
I don't now your size, but do you honestly want a 200+ lb guy hitting you full force? Do you actually want that guy to be mad at you when he delivers that shot?
I have played football with females before. The group I played with treated the gals that wanted to play with, well, kindness. It's just the way things are/were.
I will admit, there was one time a freinds girlfreind wanted to play. She said, don't treat me like a girl, I can take it! We said, naw we ain't gonna do that. She got mad and started trying to tackle hard. We again told her, that we will not put her down hard. We kept, just grabbin and basically sitting her down when we tackled.
She kept demanding that we tackle her. As a group we decided, ok, we'll give her a 50% tackle....
Long story short..... her broken arm was the end of that.
Of course we felt badly about it. Was she mad about it? Oddly, she wasn't at all.
Basically if you truely want to be treated as an equal onthe football field..... then you have to be ready for what you ask for.
2007-04-28 00:07:44 · answer #6 · answered by Hammer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most guys would feel bad if they hit a girl because girls are more likely to get hurt than a guy when they are tackled by a guy because most girls are no raised the way guys are most guys are raised to be tougher which causes us to be less fragile mainly because of the muscle mass but im not sayin women are not tough cause they are cause i could never go thru labor on the whole child birth thing
so most likely u will never get guys to play full speed against u cause they r too afraid u will get hurt
2007-04-22 02:11:09 · answer #7 · answered by cowboy76360 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ever seen that commercial where that guy gets leveled at the bar by the girl? Imagine doing that in a real-life situation. Who the hell will say "Treat her softly now!"? You have to watch out, though, as many men are trained to not hit women.
2007-04-23 12:45:07 · answer #8 · answered by Sam L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that a guy can't just be your friend. Yes, I know that a bunch of people will say I'm wrong, but the majority of men couldn't just be friends. A guy is not going to tackle you like he would another guy unless of course he hates women.
2007-04-22 01:42:10 · answer #9 · answered by dcl 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
k, as a girl, ur not gonna get tackled as hard because we, as males, were taught not to hit girls and if we were to hit too hard, well...there could pregnancy complications and such. It just dont work. They'll treat you like a real football player if you make plays,but ur not gonna get tackled hard.
2007-04-22 05:42:59 · answer #10 · answered by atl_falcons_721 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Um, they go easy because you are a girl...you just aren't supposed to hit a girl. What position do you play? Like if you play defense then lite someone up and they will respect you...offense just do your job...
2007-04-27 23:20:02 · answer #11 · answered by R52L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋