Well there´s always the Rockettes!

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Why can´t a woman be more like a man?

Good illustration.

.....Rather proves the point about the media, more than two dozen of them there. Big story, indeed.

another site had a photo of her, kicking. Her form was awful. She is clueless about placekicking.
(for a right footed kicker, one goes back three steps, and about three steps to the left. And when the left foot is placed down by the ball, it has to be about 12 inches to the left of the ball. She had her approach almost straigh on, and her left foot wound up right next to the ball. It is a wonder she didn´t kick herself.)

She can now volunteer for the infantry

All of which goes to prove the silliness of gender equality in everything

Well somebody better get to changing some rules and standards.

It seems like nobody even taught her how to place kick. Or she didn´t bother to learn. What made her think she had the chops to make it in the NFL anyway?

This is so unfair.

Just because men are big and strong - - that doesn´t mean they should get all those big-paying NFL jobs. Women must unite - - and demand that 51% of NFL playing jobs be set aside - - because after all they are 51% of the population.

Fifty-yard field goals - - fifty-five yard field goals. Hell - - let´s bring back the ten-yard field goal - - and give everyone a fair shot!

She was wearing a cup-- apparently it threw off her kicking leg!

Who was the doofus that let her try out - kicers are important and sometimes the difference in winning or losing with a solid kick for 2 points.

When will men be allowed to tryout for the WNBA?

I can kick farther than that with my left foot, and I am a senior citizen.

Thousands of ugly militant feminists had foolishly pinned their hopes on Ms. Silberman. Now all they can do is get football banned as being too violent, which is their next strategy.

Obviously it is time to bring those goalposts in a little closer and lets have a handicap it´s only fair. And since the ladies will now be in combat ,lets be sure they get a two day start on those twenty mile hikes.

Oh well. At least she got her 15 minutes of fame! All is good.

btnboerne

...make her Secretary of State...

Uh, it´s for 3 points, Mother.

Well, there´s always next year!

Goody! This thread is filled with "roughing the (non)kicker" posts. I´ll not kick poor Lauren whilst she´s down.

Hey! Look at the bright side: at least she had her 15 nanoseconds of fame. Cliches/off

She kinda made an arse of herself.

13 and 19 yards? On the fly??

At age 13 I could kick a football--high school sized--60 yards into the end zone. This a case for Jacoby and Myers. Or Morgan and Morgan--for the people! Kickers with a wet firecracker instead of TNT in their toes ought to sue because life´s unfair, and it shouldn´t be that way. Federal assistance should be applied for.

All competitive sports must be banned...before someone´s feelings get hurt.

The Jets continue to be the NFL´s source of comic relief.

Note that the directions of the "kicks" were not specified.

Absolutely a stut and Reuters, heretofore unknown for their interest in sports, ate it up for its PC content.

Hey , she got a shot at it....

Boy, the guys here really loving being as insulting and demeaning as possible. Make me think you´re GLAD she failed, were waiting for it--and enjoyed it very much.

Re #28: If a prospective NFL kicker is that bad, she (or he, if a man were that delusional) should be insulted and demeaned, for wasting credulous sportscasters´ time, if for nothing else.

Incidentally, some of us were hoping that Danica Patrick would win the Daytona 500. She is capable of winning as a racer, and in fact has won in Indy Cars. If she had won at Daytona it would have been a sponsor´s--and NASCAR´s--dream. Money would flood into the sport, and some of it would be mine. I still hope she will drive into NASCAR´s Victory Lane before the year is out.)

But a person who can´t kick a football twenty frigging yards in the air, and who seeks nationwide coverage of her tryout, deserves the maximum disapprobation. It´s like a pencil-armed Olive Oyl type trying out for the Olympic men´s weightlifting squad. Maybe Ms. Silberman´s failure will stop any other unworthy pretenders who forget their sex.

Over and out.

What overhyped rubbish.

Hillary probably kicked Bill farther than that.

I´m not glad she failed. I´m unsurprised, though, and amused by anyone who is surprised.

#29..Well said...

My understanding is that football can addictive. Hopefully she can still kick the habit.

Ultimately all football players get hit and hit hard. Therefore, even if in the very unlikely case that a woman had the talent to kick even at the college level, a full speed hit by 250 pound savage would likely take her off the field on a stretcher. Sure there are few exceptions like the beefy field event Olympic competitors, but those body types are not built for place kicking.

Thank you all for the hilarious posts, I didn´t think I could laugh again after November 6th.

I am a woman and I´m glad she failed! Sorry, but football is a man´s sport, albeit a SWEATY man´s sport and it is sacred!!! Don´t mess with football to make a "social justice" brownie point!!!

Was it a type of demand similar to boys and girls sharing bathrooms due to preferred genders instead of nature endowed ones?

Hmmmm, I think she might be good as a tight end....or a wide receiver.....

This article was kind to her. I think it left out the part where she was crying when she left.

There´s always that 6 year old transgender that could make it one day,even then that would only be half an accomplishment for the militant feminists.

Did she cry?

Come on, those kicks weren´t even girlie kicks. Oh comeon...I, as a 67 year old man can kick it at least 3x as far.

Let someone tryout (not me) that is worth consideration!

2 kicks and she hurt something? Sounds like a Workman´s Comp claim to me.