Things we love to see 🔥@GoJSUTigersSOC's Leilani Armenta is filling in at kicker tonight for @gojsutigersfb 👏 #ThatsaW pic.twitter.com/xs3d4qpmpl

— espnW (@espnW) September 23, 2023

”ESPN celebrates the first female kicker in an HBCU game…,” Cabot Phillips of The Daily Wire wrote. “No matter how bad you expected the kick to be, I promise you it’s even worse.”

”Never forget that women ruined men’s sports first,” Kingsley Cortes of the Center for Renewing America posted.

”Stop this nonsense,” Texas radio host Mark Davis posted. “We protect women’s sports because of differences between men and women. Every player on a football team is a proper potential target for a leveling block or tackle (even kickers if there’s a long return). No man can regard a woman in this way. Enough.”

[“Things we love to see”? You love to see a woman embarrass herself in a college football game, ESPN-W? There may well be women who could compete for kicking jobs in college football, but this isn’t the play that makes the argument — not by about 50 yards. Even if they do have the leg to kick competitively, though, place kickers still get hit, especially on kickoff returns that start well outside the end zone. Ms. Armenta does not seem physically prepared for that kind of contact at this level, although to be fair, that’s true of some male kickers too. — Ed]