Woody Cavenaugh

You may recall from the other day, someone from Greensboro Sports.com spoke some discouraging words about women's football leading me to issue a challenge.

There were some more words said. I am not sure what they meant, and I waited for perhaps some commenter (heck even troll Nefarious Prime) to help me understand the words that were written. I think the challenge was declined. Here's the quote, see what you think.

Woody Cavenaugh said that if I would quit laying around then maybe I might have time to cover the Phoenix and that I’m probably washed up and just plain mad that I can’t compete with these young ladies.

Woody is good writer and he has nice blog but if I’m slowing down then I must be missing something because the five miles I put in this morning went by pretty quick. I have a tight schedule and don’t have the time to coach these women but if I did they couldn’t handle what this old hound-dog would be bringing to the table. There’s not a soul in town that can keep up with me. Like I said before, “Everyone is looking for a Leader, if chosen I will Lead the People”.

What started my confusion is he seemed to be saying that I said something that I don't think I said, or even implied. I gather from this that he is too busy and doesn't think the women are capable of learning from him. But I'm not sure that is what he meant either.

Meanwhile in the comments there were words spoken both for and against women's football. The negative ones surprised me. No one has ever accused men of being incapable of performing any sports. I admit, I know only this about sports. They come in four varieties. Ball Sport, Non-Ball Sport, Individual Sport, and Team Sport. The Greensboro Sports blog seems to be more interested in team ball sports, so to me women's football would be right up their alley. I have always been more of a fan of individual non-ball sports.

Just like there are people who prefer to play turn based strategy games, and others who prefer to play first person shooters. Football is clearly a turned based strategy game, and fencing is more like a first person shooter. We know what we like and generally we don't talk smack about what the other person does or likes, at least in computer gaming anyway.

For all I know this bad mouthing women's sport is nothing more than a bonding ritual performed by hard core sports fans and I simply don't have the background to pick up what he's throwing down. Either way, since I have no way to communicate with a sports fan I should probably just stop trying until I understand their language, written, spoken, and that grunting scratching thing they do when they are together. Can anyone recommend a good beginner's sports bar?

Meanwhile I can't say enough nice things about WGHP FOX 8 who put together this really nice story about the Phoenix.