When she was 9, Utah's Sam Gordon starred in a viral video. Ten years later, she sits in a top position of a new professional sports league.
Gordon was also one of the plaintiffs in a federal Title IX lawsuit that attempted to get girls’ tackle football sanctioned by the Utah High School Activities Association as an official sport. TheBut while Gordon is proud of her founding and playing on the Utah Girls Tackle Football League and mounting a legal fight for the sport in her home state, she thinks her involvement in the X League is the next chapter of her advocacy.
“Logistics of it are a little bit funky,” Gordon said. “But as time goes on, I plan to get more and more involved and take more and more of a leadership position in the league.” The other two people on the league’s advisory board — NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka and Shaun Harvey, former chairman of the English Football League — want to create similar leagues overseas and in Canada and Mexico.
But this league, Gordon said, will be different. What started in Utah with the girls’ football league, she said, can only help erode stereotypes of women playing the sport.
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