Current Events > Will a female make it to the NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL within x years?

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10 years?
20 years?
30 years?
40 years?
50 years?

They have to be a part of the regular season roster, not just preseason. If so, what position?

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We could see a woman kicker in the NFL but that's it
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voldothegr8 posted...

We could see a woman kicker in the NFL but that's it

I have to agree it's the best chance. For baseball... I can only imagine a pitcher that has monster movement on their pitches. Like a caliber never seen because most likely, their fastball will be significantly slower than everyone in the MLB. NHL it's hard to imagine with how physical it is. I don't know the inner workings of b-ball, but I'm sure an NBA fan can tell me what disadvantages to expect.

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Manon rheaume played for the lightning. Very briefly.

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Also Taya currie was the first female drafted into the ohl just this summer so there's that.

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Only sport I could see is baseball as a pitcher who could do nasty breaking pitches.
Aside from that than no

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PiOverlord posted...

I have to agree it's the best chance. For baseball... I can only imagine a pitcher that has monster movement on their pitches. Like a caliber never seen because most likely, their fastball will be significantly slower than everyone in the MLB. NHL it's hard to imagine with how physical it is. I don't know the inner workings of b-ball, but I'm sure an NBA fan can tell me what disadvantages to expect.

Well, there are literally high school varsity teams that can beat WNBA teams
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No.

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CloneTheHero posted...

the nhl possibly. i think the nhl is the most likely sport for a woman to show up in.

Not even close. NHL is a very physical league and most women would be smothered to the boards trying to move the puck in the o-zone. Then the whole battling for position in front of the slot while a 6'4 230ib defenseman is cross-checking you.

And add to the fact that most women no where have the agility that pro NHLers do. It's a super hard league to make.

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Best chance is someone's who already is in the league decides to get a sex change

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I wonder if a woman with a godlike jumper, like a jumpshot that's way better than Curry's would make it to the NBA

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Pitcher in MLB
Goaltender in the NHL
Kicker in NFL
...idk about NBA, maybe a freak of nature shooter? This would be the most difficult sport I'd imagine

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yeah i think eventually mlb will have a female player, most likely a pitcher, but anything is possible.

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CanuckCowboy posted...

Manon rheaume played for the lightning. Very briefly.

wasn't that just exhibition?

Hayley Wickenheiser, who was the best in the game during her time, played in the Finnish third division league

CloneTheHero posted...

dude there are tiny guys in the league that never get touched. nathan gerbe 5'4 never gets touched. patrick kane 5'9. gaudreau skinny as a stick. zuccarello. debrincatt

you obviously never seen jason robertson skate. easily one of the slowest skaters in the history of the sport yet came in 2nd in the calder voting. agility is recommended in the modern era but not required

The Canadian Women's National team gets dummied by Canadian Male Collegiates or Midget AAA during tune-up games. The competition is no-where close.

And guys like Gerbe, Kane, and Marner have a frame significantly heavier than women players. Remember when Phaneuf's high schooler brother checked Hayley Wickenheiser to the floor and she threw a tantrum.

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inTaCtfuL posted...

I wonder if a woman with a godlike jumper, like a jumpshot that's way better than Curry's would make it to the NBA

A great jump shot is fine but can she make space to get that shot off quick enough with an NBA defender getting a hand in front of her.

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As an athlete I have no idea, but I do think you will start to see more and more women become head coaches of pro teams in the coming years.

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CloneTheHero posted...

every player does that. name me one one guy who hasnt cried foul to the refs after a big hit? lol

The point I'm making is Hayley Wickenheiser who was 31 at that time got rubbed out by a 15 year old.

Now put that same afformentioned single outlier in the nhl with someone like Hedman, Doughty or god forbid Tom Wilson breathing down their neck.

They don't possess the biological makeup to keep up in a top flight league like the NHL.

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EzeDoesIt posted...

but I do think you will start to see more and more women become head coaches of pro teams in the coming years.

God, I hope not. That would be so damn stupid and only done/allowed for "equality."

Just stick to female sports, women.

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NOM posted...

God, I hope not. That would be so damn stupid and only done/allowed for "equality."

Just stick to female sports, women.

Thats silly. The first female assistant NBA coach (Becky Hammon) was appointed to the position by arguably the greatest NBA coach of all time. There are a dozen women in assistant coaching positions today (may be more now, that number is from a year or 2 ago). There are plenty of female referees these days too.

(I dont know about other sports, basketball is what I know.)

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NOM posted...

God, I hope not. That would be so damn stupid and only done/allowed for "equality."

Just stick to female sports, women.

Unlike physical strength/ability, knowledge isn't something that one sex inherently has more of than the other. So it's really sexist to assume that no woman could ever have the knowledge and strategy needed to be a good coach in a men's league.

Becky Hammon is a top assistant for the Spurs in the NBA and even head coached in the Summer League too. Considering her experience and success in the WNBA, clearly she knows a lot about the game of basketball, and the game isn't so drastically different between the NBA and WNBA that her knowledge and experience wouldn't carry over and be useful to NBA teams. The same could apply with a former softball player becoming a baseball coach, because fundamentally softball and baseball aren't so different that the knowledge wouldn't carry over.
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CloneTheHero posted...

outliers dont grow on trees. because there hasnt been one doesnt mean it isnt possible

It really does. Manon rheuame played a pre season game or two for the lightning and she was not nearly good enough or strong enough and physical enough to play even as a goalie. And at the time she was unquestionably the best female goalie by miles.

A woman playing defence or forward would get murdered in the nhl

A woman would literally have a better shot making it in the NFL as a qb than having an nhl career.

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CloneTheHero posted...

outliers dont grow on trees. because there hasnt been one doesnt mean it isnt possible.

A woman is not going to be physically developed naturally to keep up with the NHL. There's no outlier that will change this. At average, the size of NHL players are around 6'1 at 200 pounds.

No woman could get close enough to this weight with a healthy bf% without compromising their health or they play in their regular size and severely hurt themselves.

Hell, Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie tried to compete in the PGA and they were no where close as they were usually bottom of the tournament standings

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inTaCtfuL posted...

I wonder if a woman with a godlike jumper, like a jumpshot that's way better than Curry's would make it to the NBA

Soon as she starts getting hot the inevitable double teams would smother her.

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No, but comparing men to women in sports is not the point. A regular on the hockey board can't stop saying how bad women's hockey is because Junior-A mens teams would beat the ladies olympic team. That isn't the point! Who cares! They're biologically different, it doesn't make it bad hockey or make it not entertaining. It's good for it's own merit, for what it is!

The real question is, will there be a WNHL or WMLB or WNFL (lol)? Soccer and Basketball are probably the most established sports for ladies' leagues.

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ShineboxPhil posted...

A woman is not going to be physically developed naturally to keep up with the NHL. There's no outlier that will change this. At average, the size of NHL players are around 6'1 at 200 pounds.

No woman could get close enough to this weight with a healthy bf% without comprising their health or they play in their regular size and severely hurt themselves.

Hell, Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Yeoh tried to compete in the PGA and they were no where close as they were usually bottom of the tournament standings

Yeah just look at Karsten baarsch when he destroyed Venus and Serena. He spent the morning drinking and smoking cigaes and wrecked them both hard. He was ranked like 300th in the world and they were absolutely the most dominant women in tennis and in their prime.

Venus even said she could not believe the power and explosiveness he had and said she'd never seen anything like it playing against women.

Thats tennis. And two women who are absolute beasts. It'd be brutal and horrible to see in the nhl.

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There's also a lot of braindead idiot players in the NHL like Kadri. Can you imagine if he blackout and goes for a head shot again but on someone with a significantly smaller frame...

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ShineboxPhil posted...

There's also a lot of braindead idiot players in the NHL like Kadri. Can you imagine if he blackout and goes for a head shot again but on someone with a significantly smaller frame...

Exactly.

Realistically even a dude like Cole caufield would wreck basically any woman with a clean hit. Maybe not Gabi garcia or someone, but she's also a roid monster who could never play hockey.

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ShineboxPhil posted...

The point I'm making is Hayley Wickenheiser who was 31 at that time got rubbed out by a 15 year old.

Now put that same afformentioned single outlier in the nhl with someone like Hedman, Doughty or god forbid Tom Wilson breathing down their neck.

They don't possess the biological makeup to keep up in a top flight league like the NHL.

She's in NHL 13 apparently.

CanuckCowboy posted...

. Manon rheuam

what about rugby >_>

Anyways, unless they have a co-ed division, probably never happening for those sports. Would be interesting to see a transgender male going making the big leagues though.

CanuckCowboy posted...

Exactly.

Realistically even a dude like Cole caufield would wreck basically any woman with a clean hit. Maybe not Gabi garcia or someone, but she's also a roid monster who could never play

You haters can't handle it

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CloneTheHero posted...

youre telling me women 6'2 and taller dont exist? lol. when you got a big girl then its just a matter of getting the skills in place to compliment the size. youre telling me thats not humanly possible?

youve obviously never heard of pro wrestling. plenty of big women. bull nakano 5'7 200lbs, looked like a beast in her prime. so no, it is possible, if a 5'7 wrestler chick can put on weight and still perform crazy moves so can a professional athlete.

golf doesnt compare to hockey. golf is more strength and skill based. hockey is simply skill based

You ever watch hockey?

Imma guess no.

I'm not even sure you ever heard of hockey before this topic tbh.

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voldothegr8 posted...

We could see a woman kicker in the NFL but that's it

This, it is the only position and the only sport where there is a chance, but it's microscopic

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CloneTheHero posted...

id bet money ive watched it longer than youve been alive kid. stay in your lane.

So why is your post so incredibly dumb and wrong?

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BignutzisBack posted...

This, it is the only position and the only sport where there is a chance, but it's microscopic

Yeah, problem is kickers sometimes have to tackle too.
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CloneTheHero posted...

youve obviously never heard of pro wrestling. plenty of big women. bull nakano 5'7 200lbs, looked like a beast in her prime. so no, it is possible, if a 5'7 wrestler chick can put on weight and still perform a grueling wrestling schedule so can a professional athlete.

Pro Wrestling doesn't compare to hockey. Wrestling is choreographed with spots and the wrestlers involved try their best to protect eachother from injury by minimizing impact.

Someone that's 5'7 and 200ibs is going to be a pylon trying to skate on ice. Lol even slower than Jason Allison on a penalty shot

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CloneTheHero posted...

youre telling me women 6'2 and taller dont exist? lol. when you got a big girl then its just a matter of getting the skills in place to compliment the size. youre telling me thats not humanly possible?

youve obviously never heard of pro wrestling. plenty of big women. bull nakano 5'7 200lbs, looked like a beast in her prime. so no, it is possible, if a 5'7 wrestler chick can put on weight and still perform a grueling wrestling schedule so can a professional athlete.

golf doesnt compare to hockey. golf is more strength and skill based. hockey is simply skill based

Hahaha no. Hockey is physically strenuous and you're gonna get slammed by +200lb 6'2" guys.

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I'm surprised to see the debate being about the NHL most of all in this thread. Out of the 4, the NHL not only is very physical, but probably promotes it the most (although the NFL is still more rough in that regard, but at least there are a variety of positions such as the kicker even if that has a chance of seeing action too). The NHL is a league that still glorifies the fighting, where you can actually punch another player and not be suspended even!

To me, it'd be the least likely of the four honestly.

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Boxing is more skill based than strength based by miles. We gonna see one of those 6 foot 2 200lb outlier women win a lhw men's championship?

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i take Clonethehero off the block list for LITERALLY 1 DAY and i see he's still running his mouth. Good lord.

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Naysaspace posted...

i take Clonethehero off the block list for LITERALLY 1 DAY and i see he's still running his mouth. Good lord.

I'm beginning to think he's just baiting people for a reaction.

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