Intro

High school football is a male dominated sport, but that needs to change boys. Like many other sports in high school there is a male and female team so that all can be included in the sport, but this is not the case for certain sports like football. 

Reasons why 

Some people may say having a girls flag football team makes up for not having a girls tackle football, but many girls including myself can agree that flag football isn’t as aggressive and doesn’t get nearly the amount of hype and excitement as tackle football games do. A student who participates in many sports off and on campus says “I think it would be good because usually you don’t associate tackle football with girls because it is usually a boy dominated side of sports, so I think that it could be good to show that girls can do tackle football too and expand it to not be such a guy dominated thing” -Kendall Hinson. Shes not the only girl athlete who agrees, my friends Maya Kirkpatick and Sidney Colbert can agree that there should be two teams of football for our school, one girls and one guys. Maya’s reasoning to why we should implement a girls tackle football team is “Since a lot of girls like football and there would be lots of sign ups” -Maya Kirkpatrick.

How come there isn’t one?

Everyone can agree that tackle football is a very dangerous sport leaving many of the players injured with short or long time injuries. Mothers and fathers all over stop their sons from playing tackle football due to how dangerous this sport can be so imagine trying to convince them to let their daughters play. I’ve spoken to my dad about how I and many others agree on how girls should have their own football team but he thinks that it is too dangerous for girls to play even if its among themselves and would be worried about any injuries that occur. However football is still a very common sport played, especially in the US so why should it be fair that guys can continue on with this dangerous sport but girls dont even get the chance. 

Conclusion

I believe that there should be an option for girls to play tackle football and that it should not be limited to guys only, its just dangerous for boys and girls and should be no excuse to hold girls back from playing a sport. I and many other girls can agree that having a girls tackle football team would be a super fun activity to participate in after school.