Joni Podesta
Thursday, 20 September 2007
Checking out the roster of the Los Angeles Amazons (a women's football team), I noticed that one of the players is Joni Podesta. Podesta, who makes her living as a stuntwoman, was one of the American Gladiators during the show's initial run. Now she's an offensive and defensive linewoman on the Amazons!

The Los Angeles Amazons dominate the Women's Professional Football League. (In case you're wondering this is American Football and not the nancy-boy sport of which many foreigners are so fond.) The women on the Amazons deserve their team name - they ain't small. Check it out.

[Los Angeles Amazons]

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lefred   | Registered | 2007-09-21 01:55:54
You mean rugby, the game that's like American football, but only without all the helmets and body armour? :p

Soccer is a game requiring great physical coordination, and both muscle strength AND endurance(since fast-twitch fibers are recruited for sprinting, kicking and dribbling, whilst all this activity has to be maintained for durations upwards of an hour).

American football can't claim to be on the other end of the manliness spectrum as long as rugby exists. :p It's somewhere in the middle.
cpbell0033944 - re:   | Registered | 2007-09-21 07:04:07
lefred wrote:
You mean rugby, the game that's like American football, but only without all the helmets and body armour? :p

Soccer is a game requiring great physical coordination, and both muscle strength AND endurance(since fast-twitch fibers are recruited for sprinting, kicking and dribbling, whilst all this activity has to be maintained for durations upwards of an hour).

American football can't claim to be on the other end of the manliness spectrum as long as rugby exists. :p It's somewhere in the middle.


Precisely. If American football is the most macho sport in the world, then how come rugby (both League and Union) players make just as much heavy contact with each other without the benefit of a helmet (just a scrum cap for some forwards) and a minuscule amount of protection in an otherwise flimsy shirt?
Lingster - I'm too busy nowadays with studying to take the time to explain to you why rugby makes American Football look like tiddlywinks, but ze fly is keen on it, (being French I'm not surprised) so why don't you ask him? He can remove your prejudice about non-US field sports.
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