By MICHAEL OVERALL Staff Writer on Mar 18, 2013, at 11:46 AM Updated on 3/18 at 11:46 AM
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Caroline Pla reportedly plays on both the offensive and defensive lines, so I'm not sure why she's carrying the ball in this photo from 2012. Maybe she recovered a fumble?
Facing a controversy over an 11-year-old girl who wanted to play football for a Catholic school, the archbishop of Philadelphia asked a committee to study the issue.
And last week those committee members -- including coaches, pastors and medical experts -- voted "by a wide margin" to keep girls out of the league, according to press reports.
Caroline Pla spent two seasons playing as both an offensive and defensive lineman in the Catholic Youth Organization. And by all accounts, she was good at it.
But the rule book said "boys only." And after an opposing team made an issue of it, the league had no choice but to enforce its own regulation.
Caroline was banned. But her parents took their case to the media. And thousands of people signed a petition to have the rules changed, saying it wasn't fair to keep Caroline off the field.
The archbishop's committee, however, had to ask if it was fair to the boys to make them play against her.
Football is a full contact sport. And even through the padding, pubescent boys are sure to notice a few differences.
And those boys might not particularly want to be manhandled by her either. It could be, as Catholics would say, an "occasion of sin."
But Archbishop Charles Chaput overruled his committee and lifted the ban on girl football players.
He's more devout and prayerful than I am, so I won't second guess him. But the priests of Philadelphia might be hearing some unusual confessions from junior-varsity sixth-graders.
Read more details HERE.
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