It all comes down to strength
As the saying goes,
”
It’s a man’s world.
”
And nowhere is this saying truer than in the world of
sports.
And I’m not talking about the couch potato who lays down on a
Saturday or Sunday afternoon with the clicker in one hand and a
beer in the other surfing the cable sports channels in order to
land on his favorite event.
It all comes down to strength
As the saying goes, “It’s a man’s world.” And nowhere is this saying truer than in the world of sports.
And I’m not talking about the couch potato who lays down on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon with the clicker in one hand and a beer in the other surfing the cable sports channels in order to land on his favorite event.
That happens all the time. What I’m talking about is the main reason why men’s sports are so much more successful than female sports. And there’s only one reason regardless of how barbaric it may seem. In fact, it’s so simple a caveman could figure it out. The caveman probably did figure it out at the first boulder toss event when he was able to throw the boulder further than his wife. I’m talking about strength – the one factor that drives the interest in male sports soaring past the same sports that females compete in. Strength is one of the things that separates the men from the boys, and the men from the women on the playing field.
Strength is the core reason why male athletes earn more money. Sure, it may seem unfair but it’s true.
Hollister’s world champion boxer Kel-C Jeffries fully understands this. In fact, I remember talking to her one time about the lack of money in women’s professional sports. Simply put, she said people don’t want to see women get hit and men hit harder. And that’s why more people want to watch men box than women. She pointed out that people want to see the big knockout punch, a rarity in women’s boxing.
I remember her saying that if she were a male athlete, with the same credentials, that she’d probably be on the cover of a Wheaties box by now, and earning upwards of a million a fight. Instead, she has to work part-time as a paid-call fire fighter in the city of Hollister to supplement her income.
Then this week I interviewed local Olympian Monica Abbott, who is arguably the greatest softball pitcher in the history of the NCAA. She also has the stats to back it up. Yet when I asked the hardest hurler in the land how fast she threw the ball, she said that she topped out at 74 mph. I’m not taking anything away from her accomplishments. It was an honor just to talk with her. But if a baseball pitcher threw 74 mph his playing days would have ended senior year in high school.
The bottom line is men punch harder, hit golf balls farther, hit baseballs farther, throw them faster, tackle harder, throw footballs farther and swim faster than women. Men run faster, jump higher and jump further all because of one reason: Strength.
It’s a simple fact of life. And until woman can be genetically altered with the male gene for strength that is the way that it will always be. Colleges and universities can have all the Title IX programs in place in the world but the playing field will never be level for this simple biological reason.
It may seem unfair but it’s a fact of life…
