The Bills made history today by hiring Kathryn Smith to be a special teams quality control coach. Usually hires for such positions don’t generate much buzz, but this one was special, because it’s a breakthrough for women in football.
Smith is the first female, full-time assistant coach in NFL history. While this should be treated as a landmark moment for equality in pro sports, a Cleveland radio host managed to dumb down the discourse with sexist comments. Kevin Kiley believes that Smith has been “set up to fail,” because women can’t coach men (via TheBigLead.com).
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“There’s no place for a woman in professional sports, in football, coaching men. Men will not take to it. If you have 10 men on special teams, eight of them will be mumbling under their breath. It’s counterproductive. You’re setting her up to fail,” Kiley said.
Kiley did not realize he was slowly jamming his foot in his mouth, and continued to force it in when he got on the topic of women voting for the Hall of Fame.
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“It’s absurd. I mean do you really want your determination, whether you make the Hall of Fame in football, do you want a woman to have a vote on that, who’s never played the game and doesn’t understand the intensity of the game?”
Kiley did not play pro football either, but he gets to offer his thoughts every day.
“Football is about physical advantage. [Women] are at a loss when it comes to the reference points of football. She couldn’t possibly be qualified to the same level that a man could be qualified to do that.”
But all men are not stronger than all women. Tell Jets C Nick Mangold’s sister that she doesn’t understand “the reference points” of football because of her strength.
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