We are the Troopers: the Women of the Winn ingest Team in Pro Football History by Stephen Guinan
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\nAmid a national backdrop of the call to pass th e Equal Rights Amendment\, the National Women's Football League was founde d as something of a gimmick. However\, the league's star team\, the Toledo Troopers\, emerged to challenge traditional gender roles and amass a win- loss record never before or since achieved in American football. The playe rs were housewives\, factory workers\, hairdressers\, former nuns\, high s chool teachers\, bartenders\, mail carriers\, pilots\, would-be drill serg eants. Black\, white\, Latina. Mothers and daughters and aunts and sisters . But most of all\, they were athletes who were denied the opportunity to play a game they were born to play. Before the protests and the lobbyists\ , before the debates and the amendments\, before the marches and the manda tes\, there was only an obscure advertisement in a local Midwestern paper and those who answered it\, women such as Lee Hollar\, the only woman work ing the line at the Libbey glass factory\; Gloria Jimenez\, who grew up pl aying sports with her six brothers\; and Linda Jefferson\, the greatest fe male athlete you've never heard of. Stephen Guinan grew up in Toledo pulli ng for his hometown football team\, and who -- in the innocence of youth-d id not realize at the time what a barrier-breaking lost piece of history h e was witnessing. We Are the Troopers sheds light on forgotten champions w ho came together for the love of the game
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