Sarah Fuller Should Vacate Special Teams Player Award

My stance on women playing football is: I don’t care.

I just don’t care. If a woman is good enough to make a team as a kicker or at any other position, I’m fine with it, as long as she wasn’t treated any differently. No special accommodations should be made for her or anyone else on the field of play.

Conversely, I don’t think it should be made out to be a big deal either. Men are obviously much stronger and faster than women on average, but there are exceptions to every rule. When I heard that Sarah Fuller had made Vanderbilt’s roster and became the first woman to play for a Power-Five football team, I did not think it was very significant.

I knew I wouldn’t share that sentiment, so I wasn’t surprised by all the media attention it garnered either. This, apparently, was a huge deal for the blue checks because it was trending on Twitter. I just shrugged my shoulders and went about my day.

But then I heard that Sarah Fuller won the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week award. Suddenly, my interest was piqued. What did she do for her team? What great feat did she accomplish? Did she make a touchdown-saving tackle? Did she pin the opponent down at their own 1-yard line to force an ensuing safety or defensive touchdown? I couldn’t want to see the play.

Here it was. Here’s what earned Fuller the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week award:



Sarah Fuller “drilled” a 30-yard kickoff that nearly went out of bounds in a 41-0 loss. And… umm… that’s it.




Can someone please explain to me why this warrants an SEC Special Teams Player of the Week award? It was just a publicity stunt. That’s quite literally all it was.

The sad part is, every scumbag blue check who is heaping praise onto Fuller knows how disingenuous this was. They know she accomplished nothing of importance. They know she shouldn’t have won SEC Special Teams Player of the Week. Yet, they’re just going along with it as if it’s the greatest thing to ever happen in sports.

If Fuller had any pride and honor, she would vacate the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week award because it cheapens the distinction for a woman who is actually successful in the future. Eventually, there might be a woman who has a Rudy-type moment by making a great play on special teams to either save a touchdown or pin an opposing team deep in their own territory. She’ll justly win SEC Special Teams Player of the Week award, but she won’t be the first woman to do so because a complete fraud did so first.

That’s why it’s so important to stop celebrating Fuller. She did nothing special. When a female football player does something special eventually, people won’t care as much as they should because there was already so much unnecessary hoopla surrounding a woman playing If Fuller really cared about women being recognized in men’s sports, she would vacate her award immediately.








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