The Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC) had to cancel their spring season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, that didn’t stop the Dallas-based organization from boosting efforts to bring women’s tackle football to a global audience. In August, the two-year-old league introduced new uniforms in an effort to help sponsors, partners, fans and even professional men’s tackle football players consider and support women playing tackle football. In May 2020, sportswear gi

Professional women’s football is coming to DFW. This spring, The Texas Elite Spartans will be one of 15 teams competing in the newly formed Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC). All games will be played in Addison. The WNFC is not the country’s first female league. What makes it unique is its ambitious business model. Other leagues typically rely on teams paying to participate. The WNFC has modeled itself on the NFL and other men’s leagues. It plans to generate revenue

You may ask why it’s necessary to add a gender qualifier to tackle football. This is football, after all, same as you know it, only played by women. Pose this question to retired running back Odessa Jenkins—who for years jab-stepped, weaved, sprang, leaped, and spun until she hit the end zone—and she’ll say, no, it’s absolutely necessary. Marginalized people need qualifiers when they’re entering new territory, she says. “So we say those things until they’re not necessary.” Je