March 16, 2025 • 15 mins
Original Air Date: March 16, 2025
The New York Jets are the biggest proponents and supporters of girls flag football and just created a New York Jets girls flag football travelling team!
The New York Jets are the biggest proponents and supporters of girls flag football and just created a New York Jets girls flag football travelling team!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Sunstein Sessions on iHeartRadio, Conversations about issues that matter.
Here's your host, three time Grasie Award winner, Shelley Sunstein.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
March is International Women's Month, and I do not know
of a team that has done more for girls sports
in our area, well actually in the country than our
own New York Jets. I say our own because Q
one four point three is a partner with the New
(00:30):
York Jets, and we proudly broadcast Jets game. So let
me give you some background here because you may not
be familiar with this. The Jets support for girls flag
football began all the way back in twenty eleven with
the launch of a league with the Public schools Athletic
League in New York City, becoming the first NFL club
(00:53):
ever to help launch girls flag football at the varsity level,
and a decade later, in twenty twenty one, the Jets
and Nike launch the very first high school girls flag
football league in New Jersey with the intention of providing
girls an equitable opportunity to play football compared to their
(01:14):
male counterparts, and the long term goal is to have
the sport adopted as an official high school statewide championship sport,
which officially came to fruition last spring in New York
and is imminent in New Jersey, and with additional support
from Gatorade and Visa, the Jets have funded seven leagues
(01:38):
with two hundred and twenty five high schools. It's just
incredible the growth, the explosion, the blowup of girls flag football.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And this year the New York.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Jets have started the first traveling team for girls' flag football.
I am so honored to introduce you to one of
the players, Jesse of Morristown High and Mickey McDermott, who
is a coach with Ridgewood High School Flag football the
(02:13):
girls team, but also is going to be coaching the
traveling team. So thank you both of you. This is
so incredibly exciting. Jesse, how did you get involved in
flag football? At what age did you become like I
want to do this?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, it started like my brother always played and my
dad was big in playing, so like I would always
just have catches and stuff with them, just out on
the front yard. But as soon as it was offered
my freshman year of high school, I joined it in
the spring and it was just so much fun and
I've been playing ever since.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I'm a senior.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now, that's awesome. Are is the travel team all set
to go? Are you on the travel team or are
their tryouts or how does it work?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I'm not on the travel team for the Jets. I'm
not sure how the tryouts work ones, but I would
love to if the opportunity was given.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
It sounds like amazing to play at like the next
elite level.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And I wish more schools and like higher schools, like
colleges offered it for scholarships and like stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And how did ask sports because I would love to
do that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, Coach Mickey, So, how does it work with the
traveling team? How do girls auditioned?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Yeah, so I'll give you some background on what the
Jets did and how this is a tremendous opportunity. So
the Jets started this travel club team to help out
girls in the Tri state area to fulfill aspirations of
continuing to play flag football. There's a few travel club
teams in Staten Island, Northeast New Jersey didn't have any,
so we wanted to have an opportunity for these girls
(03:47):
to play and get experience. The great thing that the
Jets are doing with this is all expense paid, so
they're health fee, the girls will be provided with jerseys,
gear equipment from cleats to headgear to the costs associated
with entering tournaments. So the Jets are taking that huge
initiative to help girls. And then what we're trying to
(04:09):
do is is a twofold we call it on and
off the field development. So on the field will help
them with skills related to flag football and help them
on the field, and then off the field, we're going
to help them try to get scholarships to play at
the next level. Colleges, especially the NAIA schools like Kaiser
Ottawa Baker offers scholarships for girls to play, and we're
(04:33):
going to help them with those opportunities to connect with
those coaches, have that advancement to play at the next level.
And it's in This game is growing so fast that
the NC DOUBLEA put in the governments to try to
expedite having the NC DOUBLEA women's flag program at all
the schools. So this is a growing at an incredible rate.
(04:53):
I think participation rates are up one hundred and seventy
five percent since the inception of this all over the nation.
So the Jets are providing this opportunity to help grow
girls both on and off the field. In terms of
the tryouts, we're looking to hold those March fifteenth, that
is our tentative date. We know that a lot of
(05:14):
the girls are starting their high school season in the
middle of it, so we're trying to figure out dates
that both us and the girls can make it work
to the schedules because we know how busy high school
girls are at this time going on. So that's a
little bit about the Jets what we're trying to do.
The great thing about it is the Jets are gracious
enough to offer us their facility, so our wow will
(05:37):
be at Florham Park, so it's state of the art.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
This is top The Jets are amazing.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I can't say enough good things about what the Jets do,
what they represent. It's a great opportunity for the girls.
It's going to be something special for years to come.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
If a high school girl is not actually on a
current flag football team, maybe her high school doesn't have
a team, can she also try out for the traveling team,
the Jets traveling team or does it have to be
she can?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yes, Well, we will do invitation only.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
We're sending out forms to athletic directors and high school
coaches throughout the state. We just know that there's going
to be a lot of girls trying out, so we're
going to try to limit the numbers. The thing is,
we can only hold the roster size of twelve girls
per our competitions because high school football is seven on seven.
We're going NFL flag kind of Olympic style with five
(06:41):
on five, so it's a little bit different of a game.
So our roster side is going to be twelve. But yes,
it's open to any girl in the Tri state area.
If they reach out to the Jets or myself, I
could give them information about that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And how would they do that if they're listening right now,
or are parents listening right now and saying, oh.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
My god, goodness, I want my daughter to try out.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Yeah, if you go onto the New York Jets community
community relations page, you could see Eli Hodges if you
give him an email. We will also be reaching out
to all athletic directors and head coaches in the state
of New Jersey to give them that information so they
could sign up on that Google form to say yes
(07:25):
I'm interested. I would like to try to participate in
this and then we go from there.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Do you happen to know, Mickey, how many colleges now
have female flag football?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Yeah, you know. I can't give you an exact number.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I want to say Naia has over twenty, close to twenty.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
The NCAA now is growing.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
So in our area here in the northeast, you have
Eastern University in Pennsylvania with the D three school that
just started it. The big one that we know is
Montclair State here in in our northeast just started it.
We have Saint Joe's in New York City that did it,
and then there are six teams in the Division two
(08:10):
level in North Carolina that have just started programs. So oh,
and I should say the first Division I school is
Alabama State that just offered flags. So each program at
each different level is kind of to grow the game.
So in my personal opinion, I see this totally exploding
the next five years because it seems each year each
(08:32):
conference is growing and expanding.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So, Jesse, what are your hopes and dreams with this
moving forward? Since you're a senior at Morristown High.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
I hope that I can join some club teams.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I know you were saying that there aren't really any
in North Jersey, but there are some in Staten Island.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Definitely moving on to the college.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Level, I would love or like the elite level like
the Jets team and stuff like that. And yeah, I
just it's hard for seniors right now because it's growing
so much now that like it really will be so
big for like the freshmen right now, like there really
are going to be at the peak of it, I feel,
which is a little bit sucks.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
We get the bad end of it, but it's okay.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
You gotta be no pioneers.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, I know. And it's a good feeling too.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I really love that feeling of like like getting to
do all this stuff like coming to the Jets and
like stuff like that, and we do like practices at
their facility and floor and park two, like we'll do
scrimmages and stuff like that. They're like, it's so amazing
to be on like this come up of this sport.
I just love the feeling of it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
What has flag football done for you in terms of
your confidence?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
And it's amazing. It's all the girls on the team.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
We're such a close family, like we hang out so much,
like on the off season and stuff like that, just
like doing Sunday night football games now and stuff like that,
and just everything for the confidence really because I play
quarterback too, so you really have to be confident and
like a little bit aggressive to just like get that
out there and stuff like that. So that push of
(10:11):
just like starting the game being quarterback, like it's really
spilled into all aspects of my daily life of just
like taking the moment and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Thank you so much, Jesse and Mickey.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I want to introduce you now to the Jets Vice
president of Community Relations Jesse Linder.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Jesse who came up with this fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Idea of the New York Jets getting behind girls' high
school flag football.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Who was it?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
So it actually goes all the way back to about
twenty eleven. The Public schools Athletic League in New York
City had reached out to us and they were actually
trying to provide an additional sport to help reach Title
nine compliance for female participation. So we were with them
and we helped create a league that started I think
(11:03):
with like twenty teams in the first year, and now
they're up to sixty teams in New York City and
there's actually more teams playing girls flag football than boys
tackle football in New York City, which is interesting. However,
in the past few years, we decided that it was
time to expand throughout the rest of New York State
(11:23):
and New Jersey, so we worked with local high schools,
local athletic conferences at the high school level, and throughout
the entire NFL all thirty one clubs in addition to us,
you know, I mean really made this a priority to
bring this sport to girls who traditionally haven't had it
as an outlet for them to be athletic.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Did it come as any surprise to you how this
has blown up.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
What's not surprising is how the athletes have taken to it.
It's the way their parents, the schools, the commune around
them have really, i would say, rallied around them to
just grow the league, grow it in their school, grow
it when they compete against other schools. And with the
(12:12):
Olympics coming in twenty twenty eight, there is so much
excitement about this being an opportunity for females to play
blag football and represent their country.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So it will be part of the Olympics in twenty
twenty eight.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
Yep, So twenty twenty eight, it'll be an Olympic sport there,
along with men's flag football as well too. And we've
had an international team through USA Football, they're the governing
body for the United States Football. We've had a team
that's played in a bunch of international competitions, but for
the first time it will be a sport at the
(12:48):
twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You say that there are more girls flag football teams
than tackle football.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
What in the New York area.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
That's just New York City itself.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But do you think that's because of the fear of
you know, what can happen physically with the boys with
concussions and the like with you know, the physicality of
tackle football.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Is that part of the decline.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
No, it's not even a decline as it relates to tackle,
because we've been very supportive tackle teams in New York
City as well too. We actually years ago started funding
the Public Schools Athletic League to grow tackle to get
it back up to where it actually is now. I
think what's so attractive about flag football is that it's
(13:39):
a very low cost barrier of entry. Schools only need
to play for flag belts, footballs, coaching salary, transportation officials.
Where you look at tackle, you have helmets, you have
shoulder pads, you have the cost of reconditioning those to
make sure that they're so safe. So I really think
it's more the attractive of I mean, it doesn't take
(14:02):
a lot to be able to put a flag football
opportunity for girls at schools.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
And that's why it's really taken off.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Just out of curiosity.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Jesse, how long have you been vice president of Community
Relations with the Jets?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
I am going into my twenty third season with.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Oh my goodness, how did you get into that?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So?
Speaker 7 (14:25):
I grew up in upstate New York, New Paul's, New York.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
I went to the University of Delaware for health and
phys ed with a minor and coaching science. I actually
went back to New Faults and coached three sports, none
of which were football, and did and was a physical
education teacher. But after two years I decided I just
wanted to open some more doors up for myself. I
went to University of Massachusetts at Amherst to get my
(14:50):
master's in sport management, then did an internship with the
Miami Dolphins and community relations, and then a year later
was here with the Jets, and I've been here ever since.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, I am just so immensely just in awe of
what the Jets have done with girls flag football. The
Jets have been in the forefront of this sport from
the beginning, and you know, just kudos to you. I'm
so proud that Q one o four point three is
a partner of the New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
So thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Jesse Linder, vice President of Community Relations for the New
York Jets.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You've been listening to Sunseten sessions on iHeartRadio, a production
of New York's classic rock Q one O four point
three
Welcome to Sunstein Sessions on iHeartRadio, Conversations about issues that matter.
Here's your host, three time Grasie Award winner, Shelley Sunstein.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
March is International Women's Month, and I do not know
of a team that has done more for girls sports
in our area, well actually in the country than our
own New York Jets. I say our own because Q
one four point three is a partner with the New
(00:30):
York Jets, and we proudly broadcast Jets game. So let
me give you some background here because you may not
be familiar with this. The Jets support for girls flag
football began all the way back in twenty eleven with
the launch of a league with the Public schools Athletic
League in New York City, becoming the first NFL club
(00:53):
ever to help launch girls flag football at the varsity level,
and a decade later, in twenty twenty one, the Jets
and Nike launch the very first high school girls flag
football league in New Jersey with the intention of providing
girls an equitable opportunity to play football compared to their
(01:14):
male counterparts, and the long term goal is to have
the sport adopted as an official high school statewide championship sport,
which officially came to fruition last spring in New York
and is imminent in New Jersey, and with additional support
from Gatorade and Visa, the Jets have funded seven leagues
(01:38):
with two hundred and twenty five high schools. It's just
incredible the growth, the explosion, the blowup of girls flag football.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And this year the New York.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Jets have started the first traveling team for girls' flag football.
I am so honored to introduce you to one of
the players, Jesse of Morristown High and Mickey McDermott, who
is a coach with Ridgewood High School Flag football the
(02:13):
girls team, but also is going to be coaching the
traveling team. So thank you both of you. This is
so incredibly exciting. Jesse, how did you get involved in
flag football? At what age did you become like I
want to do this?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, it started like my brother always played and my
dad was big in playing, so like I would always
just have catches and stuff with them, just out on
the front yard. But as soon as it was offered
my freshman year of high school, I joined it in
the spring and it was just so much fun and
I've been playing ever since.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I'm a senior.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now, that's awesome. Are is the travel team all set
to go? Are you on the travel team or are
their tryouts or how does it work?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I'm not on the travel team for the Jets. I'm
not sure how the tryouts work ones, but I would
love to if the opportunity was given.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
It sounds like amazing to play at like the next
elite level.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And I wish more schools and like higher schools, like
colleges offered it for scholarships and like stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And how did ask sports because I would love to
do that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, Coach Mickey, So, how does it work with the
traveling team? How do girls auditioned?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Yeah, so I'll give you some background on what the
Jets did and how this is a tremendous opportunity. So
the Jets started this travel club team to help out
girls in the Tri state area to fulfill aspirations of
continuing to play flag football. There's a few travel club
teams in Staten Island, Northeast New Jersey didn't have any,
so we wanted to have an opportunity for these girls
(03:47):
to play and get experience. The great thing that the
Jets are doing with this is all expense paid, so
they're health fee, the girls will be provided with jerseys,
gear equipment from cleats to headgear to the costs associated
with entering tournaments. So the Jets are taking that huge
initiative to help girls. And then what we're trying to
(04:09):
do is is a twofold we call it on and
off the field development. So on the field will help
them with skills related to flag football and help them
on the field, and then off the field, we're going
to help them try to get scholarships to play at
the next level. Colleges, especially the NAIA schools like Kaiser
Ottawa Baker offers scholarships for girls to play, and we're
(04:33):
going to help them with those opportunities to connect with
those coaches, have that advancement to play at the next level.
And it's in This game is growing so fast that
the NC DOUBLEA put in the governments to try to
expedite having the NC DOUBLEA women's flag program at all
the schools. So this is a growing at an incredible rate.
(04:53):
I think participation rates are up one hundred and seventy
five percent since the inception of this all over the nation.
So the Jets are providing this opportunity to help grow
girls both on and off the field. In terms of
the tryouts, we're looking to hold those March fifteenth, that
is our tentative date. We know that a lot of
(05:14):
the girls are starting their high school season in the
middle of it, so we're trying to figure out dates
that both us and the girls can make it work
to the schedules because we know how busy high school
girls are at this time going on. So that's a
little bit about the Jets what we're trying to do.
The great thing about it is the Jets are gracious
enough to offer us their facility, so our wow will
(05:37):
be at Florham Park, so it's state of the art.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
This is top The Jets are amazing.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I can't say enough good things about what the Jets do,
what they represent. It's a great opportunity for the girls.
It's going to be something special for years to come.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
If a high school girl is not actually on a
current flag football team, maybe her high school doesn't have
a team, can she also try out for the traveling team,
the Jets traveling team or does it have to be
she can?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yes, Well, we will do invitation only.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
We're sending out forms to athletic directors and high school
coaches throughout the state. We just know that there's going
to be a lot of girls trying out, so we're
going to try to limit the numbers. The thing is,
we can only hold the roster size of twelve girls
per our competitions because high school football is seven on seven.
We're going NFL flag kind of Olympic style with five
(06:41):
on five, so it's a little bit different of a game.
So our roster side is going to be twelve. But yes,
it's open to any girl in the Tri state area.
If they reach out to the Jets or myself, I
could give them information about that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And how would they do that if they're listening right now,
or are parents listening right now and saying, oh.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
My god, goodness, I want my daughter to try out.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Yeah, if you go onto the New York Jets community
community relations page, you could see Eli Hodges if you
give him an email. We will also be reaching out
to all athletic directors and head coaches in the state
of New Jersey to give them that information so they
could sign up on that Google form to say yes
(07:25):
I'm interested. I would like to try to participate in
this and then we go from there.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Do you happen to know, Mickey, how many colleges now
have female flag football?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Yeah, you know. I can't give you an exact number.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I want to say Naia has over twenty, close to twenty.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
The NCAA now is growing.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
So in our area here in the northeast, you have
Eastern University in Pennsylvania with the D three school that
just started it. The big one that we know is
Montclair State here in in our northeast just started it.
We have Saint Joe's in New York City that did it,
and then there are six teams in the Division two
(08:10):
level in North Carolina that have just started programs. So oh,
and I should say the first Division I school is
Alabama State that just offered flags. So each program at
each different level is kind of to grow the game.
So in my personal opinion, I see this totally exploding
the next five years because it seems each year each
(08:32):
conference is growing and expanding.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So, Jesse, what are your hopes and dreams with this
moving forward? Since you're a senior at Morristown High.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
I hope that I can join some club teams.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I know you were saying that there aren't really any
in North Jersey, but there are some in Staten Island.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Definitely moving on to the college.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Level, I would love or like the elite level like
the Jets team and stuff like that. And yeah, I
just it's hard for seniors right now because it's growing
so much now that like it really will be so
big for like the freshmen right now, like there really
are going to be at the peak of it, I feel,
which is a little bit sucks.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
We get the bad end of it, but it's okay.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
You gotta be no pioneers.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, I know. And it's a good feeling too.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I really love that feeling of like like getting to
do all this stuff like coming to the Jets and
like stuff like that, and we do like practices at
their facility and floor and park two, like we'll do
scrimmages and stuff like that. They're like, it's so amazing
to be on like this come up of this sport.
I just love the feeling of it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
What has flag football done for you in terms of
your confidence?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
And it's amazing. It's all the girls on the team.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
We're such a close family, like we hang out so much,
like on the off season and stuff like that, just
like doing Sunday night football games now and stuff like that,
and just everything for the confidence really because I play
quarterback too, so you really have to be confident and
like a little bit aggressive to just like get that
out there and stuff like that. So that push of
(10:11):
just like starting the game being quarterback, like it's really
spilled into all aspects of my daily life of just
like taking the moment and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Thank you so much, Jesse and Mickey.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I want to introduce you now to the Jets Vice
president of Community Relations Jesse Linder.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Jesse who came up with this fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Idea of the New York Jets getting behind girls' high
school flag football.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Who was it?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
So it actually goes all the way back to about
twenty eleven. The Public schools Athletic League in New York
City had reached out to us and they were actually
trying to provide an additional sport to help reach Title
nine compliance for female participation. So we were with them
and we helped create a league that started I think
(11:03):
with like twenty teams in the first year, and now
they're up to sixty teams in New York City and
there's actually more teams playing girls flag football than boys
tackle football in New York City, which is interesting. However,
in the past few years, we decided that it was
time to expand throughout the rest of New York State
(11:23):
and New Jersey, so we worked with local high schools,
local athletic conferences at the high school level, and throughout
the entire NFL all thirty one clubs in addition to us,
you know, I mean really made this a priority to
bring this sport to girls who traditionally haven't had it
as an outlet for them to be athletic.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Did it come as any surprise to you how this
has blown up.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
What's not surprising is how the athletes have taken to it.
It's the way their parents, the schools, the commune around
them have really, i would say, rallied around them to
just grow the league, grow it in their school, grow
it when they compete against other schools. And with the
(12:12):
Olympics coming in twenty twenty eight, there is so much
excitement about this being an opportunity for females to play
blag football and represent their country.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So it will be part of the Olympics in twenty
twenty eight.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
Yep, So twenty twenty eight, it'll be an Olympic sport there,
along with men's flag football as well too. And we've
had an international team through USA Football, they're the governing
body for the United States Football. We've had a team
that's played in a bunch of international competitions, but for
the first time it will be a sport at the
(12:48):
twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You say that there are more girls flag football teams
than tackle football.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
What in the New York area.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
That's just New York City itself.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But do you think that's because of the fear of
you know, what can happen physically with the boys with
concussions and the like with you know, the physicality of
tackle football.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Is that part of the decline.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
No, it's not even a decline as it relates to tackle,
because we've been very supportive tackle teams in New York
City as well too. We actually years ago started funding
the Public Schools Athletic League to grow tackle to get
it back up to where it actually is now. I
think what's so attractive about flag football is that it's
(13:39):
a very low cost barrier of entry. Schools only need
to play for flag belts, footballs, coaching salary, transportation officials.
Where you look at tackle, you have helmets, you have
shoulder pads, you have the cost of reconditioning those to
make sure that they're so safe. So I really think
it's more the attractive of I mean, it doesn't take
(14:02):
a lot to be able to put a flag football
opportunity for girls at schools.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
And that's why it's really taken off.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Just out of curiosity.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Jesse, how long have you been vice president of Community
Relations with the Jets?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
I am going into my twenty third season with.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Oh my goodness, how did you get into that?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So?
Speaker 7 (14:25):
I grew up in upstate New York, New Paul's, New York.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
I went to the University of Delaware for health and
phys ed with a minor and coaching science. I actually
went back to New Faults and coached three sports, none
of which were football, and did and was a physical
education teacher. But after two years I decided I just
wanted to open some more doors up for myself. I
went to University of Massachusetts at Amherst to get my
(14:50):
master's in sport management, then did an internship with the
Miami Dolphins and community relations, and then a year later
was here with the Jets, and I've been here ever since.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, I am just so immensely just in awe of
what the Jets have done with girls flag football. The
Jets have been in the forefront of this sport from
the beginning, and you know, just kudos to you. I'm
so proud that Q one o four point three is
a partner of the New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
So thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Jesse Linder, vice President of Community Relations for the New
York Jets.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You've been listening to Sunseten sessions on iHeartRadio, a production
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