Women’s Football Violence Goes Viral
Even Balloon Boy and JK Wedding Dance were not as popular as this video about New Mexico University football player Elizabeth Lambert.
The video shows Lambert being extremely unsports(wo)manlike to her opponents.
The content of the video is not very spectacular: we’ve all seen football players and other athletes behaving badly on the field. But somehow this video stood out, reaching a million views in just a few days. Now it has reached viral status and more than 10.2 million views according to Mashable. The views are spread over the different versions of the video going around.
It’s said that maybe the fact that Lambert is a woman is what makes her actions worth watching. Men do it all the time, but women don’t and that’s what makes it more interesting. To me watching it is more like the car crash comparison: you’re shocked by what you are seeing but it’s to spectacular to look away.
Among the more than 20,000 comments on the video you can find a lot of people cheering Lambert on, disapproving of her behavior and reasoning that her behavior is equal to that of men on the field. But only a few alert viewers also noticed that Lambert is not being mean for no reason. In both cases her opponent starts the rumble, evoking revenge in Lambert. Still I think that her retaliation is unprofessional.
Lambert has been suspended indefinitely for her behavior.
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Elizabeth Lambert is a junior at the University of New Mexico, and plays for their soccer team the Lobos originally from California (too bad for California). So, this loser knows they are going in to a game that they will most likely lose and since they do not have the talent to score they resort to this kind of play, it has very minor thought to it than let’s say passisng the ball through your opponents defense and scoring a goal.
The other issue is the where were the referees, were they all older white men with their tongues out, enamored and unable to call the game objectively (this game had so many penalties that did not get called), I mean what are they getting paid to do. Who has paid these guys off? Do we have to change the game where only women referees can call women games. After watching the video someone was paid off, that is my conclusion.
And Lizzy, watch you back and please stay out of soccer (you real should be banned, the game does not need people like you in it), so many will be gunning for you now. Who knows maybe you were just drumming up business for your “Occupational Therapy practice”, yah good luck with that, I doubt your bed side manner is any different from your sportsmanship.