The San Diego Sting is a women’s tackle football team in San Diego.  Last week, this girl who I used to play basketball with had sent a message out about this football team.  At first I didn’t even really read the message, but for whatever reason, I decided to have a closer look.  It turns out that this was a full on tackle football team with pads, helmets, and all that stuff.  A real team and even travels to games in Vegas, LA, Tuscon, and one other place I can’t remember.

I was thinking that it was something I might want to do.  Playing football at a higher level on a so called “pro” team…haha.  Dude that would be CRAZY!!!  I did have a few concerns…  I was kind of afraid, I’ve never been hit (tackled) before, nor have I ever even really tackled someone.  I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to hang (were these people crazy good?)  Things I was interested in… I wanted to know what it felt like to wear all the football gear.  How hard is it to run around after that?  Can you even lift your arms?  Mainly, I was interested in playing football.

So I decided I would investigate further since they were having tryouts/combine on the Saturday.  (  I see the combine on TV, I really really want to try it.  It looks like so much fun!!) For those who don’t know, the combine is basically used for scouting in the NFL.  It is like tryouts where you are timed in sprints, tested to see how high you can jump, your skill level, etc.  It would be really fun to try.  So I emailed them and asked about it.  They told me that no experience was required.  I thought…I don’t think anyone that had zero experience would try TACKLE football so I deduced that there would probably not be many newbs there.  They said it would be conditioning, catching, throwing, but no tackling yet.  I actually really wanted to try it out, to just go and see what it was like.  But then, it was $45 to do the tryout/combine because you have to pay for a jersey or something?  Or perhaps coaches to watch you??  That was kind of expensive.

So I decided to get even more info from A, who played 2 years ago in something similar.  She said they had a lot of conditioning, a lot of practices, and just a lot of meet up time which means that it would be a huge committment.  The more I thought about it, I just claim to the conclusion that I don’t really have time to commit to something this big.  I’m already busy as it is and super tired each night but to add this would probably just suck the life out of me.

Part of me wishes that I could have a clone.  That I could go experience things with no interference with my normal life.  This way I can do both and not worry about anything.  I often think about that.  If I could just keep my life uninterrupted, I would dare do other things.