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  1. Just now, ATXbronco said:

    Why do players do this sometimes?  Instead of running out to the left, they cut back and dive into the pile and get stopped.
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    Defender has outside leverage and extended arms on #5, easy for him to shed the block. And Mitchell ain't much of a blocker anyway.

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  2. 10 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    now that we have professional women’s football leagues, should we start referring to the NFL as American Men’s Tackle Football? 

    One of my favorite genres of dumbshit posts by certain-types-of-guys is the "invent something to be offended by" genre.

    Bright red bald head, gas station Oakleys, driver's seat of an F-150 parked outside a Wal-Mart, creating a YouTube video into the front-facing camera of the iPhone 8 saying shit like, "OH SO WHAT'S NEXT, I'M GONNA HAVE TO BOW WHEN I SEE A WNBA PLAYER?!? IS THAT WHAT THEY WANT!? I HAVE TO STAB MYSELF TO MAKE MEGAN RAPINOE HAPPY!? I HAVE TO CASTRATE MYSELF FOR SHERYL SWOOPES!? IS THAT WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO WANT NEXT!?!"

    Texas Longhorns - Men's
    Texas Longhorns - Women's

    This shit isn't complicated.

    In the dystopian hell-future feared by certain-types-of-guys:

    Dallas Cowboys - Men's
    Dallas Cowboys - Women's

    "OH SO EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE WOMEN, THEY'RE COWBOYS!?! I THOUGHT THAT WAS SEXIST?!!?!?"

    The eternal victim never runs out of things to feel victimized by. That's their magic.

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  3. 14 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    So, this particular stat is not very useful for advancing any kind of an equality argument, but you don't have to go very far below the surface to find some misogyny that bears at least some responsibility for the differential.

    Absolutely. The ceiling for women's sports is almost certainly significantly lower than for men's, but the floor started to level only very recently.

    There's money in girl's/women's sports. It might not be as much as claimed by a handful of people who certain-types-of-guys love to rage about online, but anyone who sees the money poured into girl's volleyball and softball and basketball camps by eager parents and has half a brain knows the potential is huge.

    Put more NCAA female athletes on social media (and clips/highlights), where young women virtually live, and its more likely that those young women will idolize and want to emulate those NCAA female athletes. It's not rocket surgery.

    Women have money. Lots of it. It's going to be a SLOW process of integrating sports into the lives of women, but it's not impossible.

    We all love sports because we were little boys encouraged (often forced) to play sports. And we were fed images and video of men playing sports. We all grew up imitating different batters' stances or shot techniques. Even girls TODAY don't have much opportunity to see that kind of stuff, and they have to look for it.

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