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I’ll Try Anything Once, Episode 6: Women’s Football, Tucson Arizona

It’s most every little boy’s fantasy to grow up and be a football superstar. But what if the league that boy is playing in is comprised entirely of women, the most talented semi-pros in the nation? In this episode, Touré travels to Arizona to train for and play a full-contact game with the fastest and most furious femme pigskinners in the West, The Tucson Monsoon. With body-builder and local fire captain Diana Benson putting him through his paces, Toure has four days to prove he’s tough enough for a place in this top squad.

Touré’s Real World Tip

When you’re going to catch a pass in traffic, with defenders all around you, just go for the ball. Don’t think about the defenders, don’t worry about them being inches away from you, waiting to tackle you as soon as you get the ball. As hard as it is, you must pay no attention to them and just go for the ball and take whatever happens after that. That’s the wide receiver’s job. Also, you must catch the ball with your hands. This may sound obvious, but many times people catch the ball with their chest and then wrap it up with their arms or catch it with their bicep then wrap it with their arms. But the wrap it up method can lead to the ball bouncing out of your grasp. If you hook the ball into your hands and grip it once it’s there, it’s not going anywhere. Except maybe with you into the end zone.

Touré’s Journal Entry

Episode 6 – Women’s Football

I flew to Arizona more excited about this one than any other episode. I love football! I’d never played organized football but I’ve watched a ton and I’ve played a lot of backyard football and I think I’m a pretty good wide receiver. I was thrilled to finally get in a real game. But moments before the game, when I stood on the field in my pads, looking at the other team – most of whom were larger than me and most of those on my team – I got really scared. Then I heard from one of our assistant coaches that he’d overheard the other team’s coaches telling their players that they were willing to take a 15-yard penalty in order to get a cheap shot on me. Then I heard that their head coach had offered $80 to any player who could knock me out of the game. That really scared me. I was about to get my ass beat. When our team went back into the locker room for final instructions I had the toughest of the assistant coaches hit me hard over and over, banging on my pads, smacking my helmet, slamming me against the wall – he beat me up so I could grab a sense of what I was in for.

But the women on the other team played me fairly and cleanly. There were no cheap shots, no gratuitous hits meant to injure or take me out of the game. I got hit hard but nothing that was unsportsmanlike, or, I should say, unsportswomanlike. Somehow I helped my cause before the game even started. I was chosen to be one of my team’s three captains and walked out to mid-field with the other captains to meet their three captains and watch the coin toss to decide who’d get the ball first. I went out there and shook hands and looked each woman in the eye and said have a good game. And somehow that brief moment won them over. After the game they said I’d been perceived as sweet and humble, enough to make them not eager to hurt me in the game.

After the game both teams went to a local bar for some drinks. After a hard fought game it feels good to put the competition aside and have drinks with the other team, to see them in real clothes, to ask them their perspective on certain plays, to talk about who they are as people away from football. The woman who intercepted me twice during the game turned out to be a sweet and beautiful 23 year-old blonde named Christina whose last name leads to her being nicknamed Hutch. The sort of girl who broke my heart in high school and college and then once again on the football field.

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