re: Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller to be named SEC co-Special Teams Player of the Week

Please tell me this is a joke

Y’all remember that futurama episode where leela is playing that future version of baseball? And she’s the first female and she’s basically just a sideshow act because she sucks? And there’s a woman who is actually good and trying to make it to the majors and hates her for it?

That’s what this makes me think of.

ETA: LINK

The full episode is in YouTube if you care to search for it

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It was a good story to begin with.

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No it wasn't. From the start this has been a story about some perfectly capable kid getting robbed of a scholarship opportunity at a prestigious school like Vanderbilt because they want to give a spot to someone who cannot perform anywhere near the level needed to earn that spot legitimately for virtue signal points and cheap publicity.

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No it wasn't.

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ehhh. At the beginning it was fine. First woman to play blah blah blah. But the ensuing coverage and finding out that she wasn't good enough to begin with made it a shite show.

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It was a good story to begin with

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No it wasn’t. The “story” was that Vandy had no one left to kick, so they turned to her. But the fact of the matter, they had punters (and likely other players) that had kicking experience and would have done a better job than her.

But instead they went with the publicity stunt route

If Vandy wasn't so shitty she may have had more than one kick.

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That's why they made her kick it like that, they didn't want her to get blown up. Which is ironic considering the "everyone can do it message." Can't allow a return, and you know she can't get a touch back, so you do what they did.

Imagine if it got returned and she got hit, that poor player would be cancelled. 

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This is the ridiculous hypocrisy in all of this. If she would've actually performed like a normal Male athlete and was subsequently demolished, the entire world would be bashing that Male athlete for simply doing his job.

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I think it's a little misguided to push this as "Girls can do anything" moment. Regardless of the execution of the kick. She was a scholarship athlete in the SEC. Everything she did prior to even dressing out for the football team is something 99% of girls can't do. Even 99% of girls who want to do that. It's not "girls can do anything", it's "if you are an elite athlete in one sport, someone might give you a chance in another."

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Cool Pat, but she’s still not gonna frick you

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but she’s still not gonna frick you

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Okay?

ETA: I'm not sure I understand your angle. I'm saying it's dumb to make this as big a deal as it has been made without regard to what she actually did on the football field.