Is This Anything?

The Illinois High School Authority announced yesterday it was making girls’ flag-football an official sport starting the next school year. Better late than never, I guess. By late, I mean fourteen-plus years, because Clare loved playing playground football with the boys at St. Bernardine’s. Playing flag-football in high school would’ve brought out the inner linebacker in her. TV did a lot of stories last fall about flag-football at local schools. From what I could tell, many of the girls were two-sport athletes; football allowed them to keep active and competing. It also seems that colleges are starting to offer scholarships for flag-football, and that’s fine by me. But beyond that, what? The Bears are big proponents of flag-football, so that makes me skeptical. Would Kevin Warren and company bother if there were any chance of its growing popularity impacting the Munsters? I doubt it. And if the first female general manager in the NFL got her start playing flag football, we’re still a long ways off of her hiring, now aren’t we? So, yes on the expansion of opportunity for female high school athletes, no on the Bears trying to make themselves looks as if they care about cracking the NFL’s glass ceiling.