She’s A Baller, Shot Caller: Little Makayla Crespin At The Center Of Football Brawl

It always seems like people get so much more worked up over children’s sport than they do professional games. Two coaches got into a scuffle during a Colorado kids’ football game when one coach told another that he wouldn’t let his team play against one with a girl on it. Also? I am rubber and you, sire, are glue.

The girl in question is eleven-year-old Makayla Crespin - who just so happens to be the other coach’s niece. Her uncle, Nate Hernandez, had alerted the opposing team’s parents that there would be a girl playing during the game. The parents apparently grew upset over this because it is “against their religious beliefs to hit a girl.”

Except when it comes to throwing stones. Of course.

Before the game, Hernandez marched over to the opposing team’s coach, Shawn Mills, and told him to explain to Makayla why it was that she couldn’t play. Mills told Hernandez it was not the time nor the place to discuss that and that’s when, he says, Hernandez called him names and took a swing at him. Hernandez has since been suspended from his coaching duties and Mills has decided to press charges against him for the fight.

As for Makayla? The whole thing pretty much made her feel like poopoocaca:

It really hurt my feelings. Because girls can do the same as boys.

Only if that means secretly wearing a dress on Tuesday nights. Wait…

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