My daughter and some of her teammates will play on the U13 boys travel team when they are short handed. OUr girls are usually the best players on the field when they do.
They're also tougher than the boys.
That is sad... We used to mess around with scrimmaging 1 and 2 division up girls and run them ragged. They could be meaner than some of the boys, that's for sure.
Gone are the days of a mistimed slide tackle and nothing more than a direct free... now you get carded and gone. I might have lasted about 3 minutes in a game today. IMHO, the game is MUCH softer now than it was years ago. When someone flopped, you got plenty of opps to give them a real reason to flop. Floppers got abused and now they are rewarded. You could be really rough within the rules, not now.
