Bad day for female kicker hopeful Silberman

[JawnyBlaze]

http://profootballta...ublicity-stunt/

According to Florio (yea I know, incredibly thin source) she had never kicked a football before. Judging by the way she was kicking I don't doubt it.

[TheRed]

There was nothing ignorant about his statement at all. The ignorance is in your overly simplistic assessment of his point. No one said any of those groups of people should be kept from doing anything. He was making a point that our lovely media has it feelers out looking to prop up any and every possible "heartwarming story" they can find regardless of how it impacts those people if they should fail in their endeavors. It was wrong of them to put this poor girl on blast before this attempt and now she will be ridiculed and her efforts will be reduced to nothing more than a gif on message boards like this forever. It's sad.

The only thing worse than what he said is your misinformed defense of his statements.

He went into a rant about entitlements and affirmative action. There is a place for that crap, it's called the tinderbox. Seems you and him aren't the only insecure males over compensating in this thread.

[tukafan21]

you guys don't think her injury caused the 13 and 19 yard kicks?

Nope, not in the slightest

Could it have hurt a little bit?

yes

but if she at all deserved to be there, she still would have kicked it further, injury or not

[SmashNDash]

Complete stunt. Pretty sure I know a little about about athletics, and if you're injured, kicking without warming up would be the absolute worst thing you could do. Kicker would be the only position a female could ever have a chance at in the NFL, and even that is impossible.

[LinvilleGorge]

There are a ton of accomplished college kickers with actual game experience who would've loved to have had that opportunity yet this lady was brought in to get a couple of headlines. That's just sad.

[Proudiddy]

Typical attention wh0re... Bet she has a "rape story" too.

[rodeo]

I think it's about time for a break from the huddle

[Floppin]

Typical attention wh0re... Bet she has a "rape story" too.

Ohhh lawd.

[Proudiddy]

I keed, I keed...

Just wanted to post the typical chauvinistic response. That being said, in all seriousness, I do believe it was a publicity stunt from the jump.

[TheRed]

Publicity stunt or not that doesn't mean let's all make broad generalizations based on one instance.

[Mr. Scot]

I doubt she'd have gotten the tryout if she hadn't shown the ability to kick past 20 yards before.

My guess, the injury caused the issues. It happens.

Didn't really expect her to make it anyway, but oh well...

[h0llywood]

Somewhere, JJ Jansen is disappointed that his fantasy kicker didn't make the cut.

[Proudiddy]

Publicity stunt or not that doesn't mean let's all make broad generalizations based on one instance.

Understandable. No we shouldn't. That being said, sometimes it's okay to make jokes or laugh at something that was clearly a joke to begin with. It's alright to turn the PC-meter off every now and then. Sometimes I seriously wonder if people on here would even crack a smile at a Dave Chappelle stand-up.

[RelaxImaPro]

Female kicker... fantasy team... hmm, I bet there's a good joke in there somewhere.

But seriously though, I don't really know what to think about this. It's either just horrible timing that potentially the first female NFL player gets an injury right before her tryout, or it was just a sham to begin with.

Like someone else said, why would she be doing push ups instead of practicing her kicking form before her kick attempts? But I'm sure someone had to vouch for her down the line for her to get the try out to begin with.