Powder Puff Girls Gone Wild
By BOB CONNORS
Updated 2:30 PM EST, Tue, Nov 24, 2009
If you aren't familiar with the Powder Puff football phenomenon it's easy. Powder Puff games are flag football games played by high school girls, as the varsity football team and other boys sit on the sidelines and cheer them on.
The games usually take place to correspond with the big Thanksgiving Day rivalries between Connecticut's high schools.
So, if you think girls playing flag football is a quaint experience, with most of the competitors afraid to chip a nail, or smudge their mascara, think again.
The girls play hard, practice and run complicated plays, and often get down and dirty. And when it comes to the Powder Puff team in Cheshire, apparently too dirty, according to the Waterbury Republican-American.
Cheshire and Southington has ended its 13-year rivalry this year because Southington decided last year's game got a little too rough. In fact, it got so bad, that no team was willing to play Cheshire this year, the Republican-American reports.
The Rams and the Blue Knights had tied 14-14 at the end of regulation last year, but the coaches and referees felt that the game had become so physical on the field and so out of control with parents and spectators in the stands, that they decided not to play overtime, the newspaper reports.
So while the boys football teams will put on the pads and take the field against each other Thursday, the schools have decided, the girls will stay on the benches.
First Published: Nov 24, 2009 1:00 PM EST
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