True Gender Equality
It was an outstanding and long overdue announcement. A woman given a prominent role on the football field. Maybe not as a player, but as an official. While it’s hard to not look at the move in a cynical way, and assume the NFL is partly doing it for the PR, I don’t want to take away what Sarah Thomas has accomplished. She has the accolades and the experience. Even if the NFL is doing this for PR, she still deserves it and she is still a monumental achievement in a sport fueled by testosterone. This is a landmark moment, as silly as it sounds. She’s a pioneer.
When a moment like this comes I worry about what I’m going to say. What will my stamp on the moment be? When we look back upon this moment years from now, what will my statement be? I need to handle this with maturity and class. Clearly, there was only one thing to do.
Make a disgusting poop joke.
I’m an adult!
And a ventriloquist too. She’s making that ball whistle.
that’s the sound of air escaping, must be a patriots ball
The sad part is, there’s probably a good chance she actually had this exact conversation with some college players at one point.
OMG you made a period shit joke, is this real life?
Easily my favorite comic so far; never thought I’d see period shits on the Draw Play. <3
Oh please. I know exactly how this is going to play out. She is going to make a bad call, something that happens with every ref, and people are going to give her the business for it, exactly the same as any other ref who makes a bad call. But unfortunately, since she’s a woman, the national outrage machine will take that as an opportunity to hop up in their high horse and declare football and football fans terrible misogynists, conveniently forgetting what the word actually means, and use it as a springboard to talk about “changing football culture” to be more “inclusive” and make it a “safe space”. This has already happened in other niche hobbies and now it’s coming to the NFL.
I hope she gets fired, not because she’s a woman, but because I’d rather not see football get completely neutered in my lifetime
So you are either a troll a huge sexist idiot
“I hope she gets fired, not because she’s a woman, but because I’d rather not see football get completely neutered in my lifetime”
Yet your entire argument is that football is going to be neutered entirely because of overreactions about her being a woman, so actually you do want her fired for being a woman, because her being a woman threatens your “neutered NFL” via your twisted assumptions. You are right about one thing: she will get an undeserved level of hate for her first bad call. But the rest of your slippery slope argument is insane. Sarah Thomas was the first female ref in a major College game, and she didn’t ruin the sport. She was the first ref in a Bowl game, and didn’t ruin the sport. She’s not going to ruin the NFL with one bad call because a small subset of sexist idiots and a small subset of SJWs get mad. We have terrible sexist fans talking too much already, we have people who think the NFL is misogynist already. They haven’t changed shit. They hired her and there wasn’t any outrage. What makes you think one call will suddenly lead to catastrophic change? Get your head out of your ass.
Also, she’s going to be a Line Judge, not head ref. Refs tend to get the blame because they are the ones who talk, most people don’t even know the names of a single non-ref. Outside the first couple of games she’s in when the cameras show her for a few seconds, people will forget she’s even on the field.
The only non-ref official I can think of off the top of my head is Tony Steratore, and only because he’s Gene’s brother. Fittingly, the family owns a toilet supply house outside Washington, PA.
PS – Great takedown 🙂
Don Carey is another, but only I mostly know that name because he’s the brother of Mike Carey, who was a ref
Ooh, kill ’em, ooh, ooh
The NFL is filled with murderers, rapists, women beaters, and child abusers. Half those things are just from this year! Yet the sport as a whole is essentially untouched. The integrity took a hit, and every type of activist or person with an opinion said their piece. 6 months later it’s all swept under the rug. The public mind has serious ADHD. I know Dave has already dissected your argument, but if you think any amount of public outcry will “neuter” the sport, or have any overall effect your worldview is very naive.
oh look, a gamergate moron took time from playing shitty call of duty to make a shitty post on the internet
My favorite joke was a tweet I saw
*throws flag*
Coach: what’s the call?
Ref: it’s nothing
Coach: no really, what is it?
Ref: no it’s fine
Heres the funniest line in this comic:
………..the NFL is party doing it………………
http://gridirongrit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Bill-Belichick-Lets-Party.jpg
The best part is that you made the sophomoric, poop conversing players, the Steelers. So good.
I was about to go all Yinzer Rage here, but then I remembered we had Najeh Davenport for several years, who earned a Masters’ in Creative Fecology.
It’s pretty cool to see a female officiate in a league in which it’s male-dominant.
…I still wonder what the chances are of there being a premier women’s American Football league. There has already BEEN organized leagues for women’s football (I refuse to acknowledge the LFL) but none are very high profile.
On a vaguely on-topic note,That Karlie Harman girl is hot
That 15 year old girl is hot?!?! Ummm…
Joke’s on you, I’m turning 14 in September.
The joke’s on you, I’m a potato.
Fuckin laugh!!
I’d have to agree with you on the LFL, it’s more of an excuse to see women in skimpy clothing running around and tackling each other than an actual football league.
Of course you had to draw the Steelers in this one.
You made a poop joke and elected to use a team that was not the Cleveland Browns. I’m disappointed that you missed an opportunity for the obvious and stupid pun.
I love how all the tags are lowercase except for the last two, especially given the nature of this joke. 😀
dave why does that girl have a rocking uni row that makes her look like a guy in the 2nd to last strip