She Got Game?

Rose Farley is 5-foot-2, 110 pounds. If she makes the all-new Dallas Diamonds professional women's football team, she's gonna take some suckas out.

A A A Comments By Rose Farley Thursday, May 9 2002

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Everything about her says "I just got back from the gym," only it doesn't look like she actually broke a sweat. Her white tank top is fresh. So, too, are her shorts, which are cut short to reveal perfectly bronzed legs. My eyes wander up to the back of her head, where she has pulled her hair into a ponytail, which taunts my nose.

She is shorter than I am.

Mark Graham

Despite photographic evidence to the contrary, Rose Farley does not throw like a girl.

Mark Graham

These women demonstrate that they got game: from top down--"Big" Teresa Sayler, Stacey Huggins, Monique Kendal and Jennifer Gonzales.

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I was sizing her up. Worse, I was overwhelmed by the desire to drop back three steps, lower my shoulders and slam her and her cell phone into the meat counter. In my mind, I see beans flying and her sprawled out on the floor, there beneath the Parmigiano Reggiano. Now that would give her something to talk about.

I lean over to Tom and whisper, "I could take her out."

"If you make this team," he says, "it's going to be like hanging around with a midget Mike Tyson."

Good point. But if I were to make this football team, I would no longer have to imagine decking women who agitate me. For the first time in my life, I could hit them for real. With shoulder pads, helmets, the whole shebang. Now that's an opportunity I just can't pass up.