No, We’re Not Going to Run with It
Could there be a deeper agenda with the NFL’s promotion of women in football?
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One of my favorite commercials from this year’s Superbowl featured a young woman by the name of Diana Flores, MVP of the Flag Football World Games, entitled “Run with It”.
The 2-minute spot highlights Flores eluding everyone trying to grab her flag—including Billie Jean King, former American No. 1 tennis player; Davante Adams, wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders dressed as a parrot; Cam Hayward, defensive end for the Pittsburgh Steelers posing as a bellhop; and even her mom.
If you missed it, you could watch it here.
The commercial concludes with an ode to “the women pushing football forward. We can’t wait to see where you take this game.”
Wait… they want to see where women are going to take the NFL? Oh boy. I published a post in November called The Inclusion Delusion discussing how, “according to the religion of inclusion, it’s not enough to give everyone the same opportunity, you must guarantee the same outcome.” You can read the full post here.
Just over a week ago on February 5, the league rewarded young women like Flores by inviting them to call offensive plays for the NFC and AFC during the newly redesigned Pro Bowl game in Las Vegas. But will the push to incorporate women in the NFL end here? It’s highly doubtful.
Don’t get me wrong. As a woman, I love seeing other women break through gender barriers. The flyover by the historic, all-women team of pilots during the Superbowl pregame was very inspirational.
I also have the highest respect for Maia Chaka, Sarah Thomas, and Robin DeLorenzo who have broken into the “good ole boys club” of league referees. I think it’s great that The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington Commanders, and Denver Broncos have hired female position and conditioning coaches. To be clear, I have nothing against women working inside the NFL.
But this isn’t that.
By nature, men are stronger and faster than women. Everyone knows this. In 2017, CBS Sports published an article entitled, “FC Dallas under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women’s National Team in a Scrimmage.” Hardly an isolated incident, top-ranking women’s soccer teams have been scrimmaging premier high school boys for decades because they present the best competition for elite female athletes.
I am reluctant to see female players in the NFL, and here’s why. I picture two different scenarios of how this could play out:
The league begins to draft female kickers but quietly discontinues the practice after one or more of them suffer crippling injuries.
Or, the more likely option is, The NFL will begin celebrating and, by extension, incentivizing teams to draft trans-women.
In other words, I have a sneaking suspicion that the first “woman” drafted into the NFL will have been born with a Y chromosome. Who exactly is the NFL conditioning here: female athletes or us, the viewing audience, to accept what’s coming next?
While you are wondering who would benefit from this move—since it’s clearly not the players or fans—consider that Pfizer, one of the top pharmaceutical companies promoting sex-change drugs for children reported revenues of $100.2 billion in 2022, an all-time high for the company.
Gender dysphoria diagnoses in the United States of patients ages 6-16 nearly doubled in 2021 from the previous year, according to Reuters. Only 24,847 youth in 2020 received these diagnoses compared to 42,167 diagnoses the following year.
What is behind this trend? Could pharmaceutical companies be incentivizing doctors to diagnose more patients? Would having transgender players in the NFL further glamorize the notion of transitioning?
Please don’t misunderstand. Children struggling with their identity who desperately want to fit in with their peers are not the problem, the powerful corporations who prey on them are. When companies like Pfizer have advertising budgets of over $100 million, this tells you everything you need to know.
In conclusion, we should celebrate the accomplishments of Diana Flores and other strong women like her. But praising male athletes who take hormone therapy to be considered female athletes is not the same as celebrating women. Just so that we are clear.
No, NFL, we’re not going to “run with it”.
Amy, Thanks for writing about this... I did not see the Super Bowl or that commercial. The left destroys everything it touches. Those who endorse or encourage the transgender movement are spiritually sicker that the transgenders themselves. This will not end well. Thank you for standing up for real women!