Females in the NFL

[ericadawn16]

Recently, two long-term news anchors retired; John Wilson-who's better known to the rest of you as Patrick Wilson's dad and Gayle Sierens. However, I learned something I never knew before about Sierens:

In 1987 Gayle Sierens was the first (and so far only) woman to do play-by-play for a national NFL game. That Chiefs-Seahawks matchup was blacked out in Kansas City and seen by only 10 percent of the country. In 2009, Visser became the first woman to do color for a televised NFL game, a preseason matchup between the Dolphins and the Saints.

I think it's awesome that she was the first but the fact that it was 27 years ago and NO FEMALE has done it since? That's just sad and pathetic.

Yes, this particular article is three years old but the more recent articles backed up the information as still being accurate.

*sigh*

http://espn.go.com/espn/commentary/story/_/id/6922884/why-there-more-women-calling-football-games

Comments

[mercystars.livejournal.com]

I agree. but you know, ~gurlz dun liek footballz/wait, they do........?/zomfg gurl cootiez noooooooooooooooooooo/no woman has done this since 1987~

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

WOW, that is pathetic that 27 years later she is the only one. :o
Hugs, Jon

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

I agree with you.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Yep, exactly.