Force Football
22 entries
- Chicago Force Wins the Eastern Conference Championship
Force fullback Bridget Fahrner holds her Offensive MVP award after the game.Assistant Coach John Konecki flashes a thumbs up for the cameraBoots wants us to post more pictures of himIt is clear to me that the two-point conversion is going...
# At July 12, 2008 10:53 PM | Tags: Albiona Zhubi championship Chicago Force Dallas Diamonds Detroit Demolition feminism football Jennifer Dulski Linda Bache Lisa Horton Melissa Smith Pam Schaffrath Patricia Harper Pittsburgh Passion Sam Grisafe sports Theresa Simon women - A Great Victory for Our Side
I now feel it is safe to predict that the Chicago Force won yesterday's game against the Detroit Demolition 8 to 7. I was not at the game myself (and my non-attendance has nothing to do with the fact that...
# At June 29, 2008 2:56 PM | Tags: Brandi Srda Bridget Fahrner Chicago Force Dawn Pederson Debbie Sanchez Detroit Demolition directions feminism football Holmgren Field Jennifer Dulski Linda Bache Marcie Myers Melissa Smith Pittsburgh Passion women - Preparing for the IWFL Championship
Force general manager Linda Bache poses with the Gremlin after a gameAt 3pm Central Time, June 28, 2008-- exactly 24 hours from now-- the first round of the IWFL playoffs will commence. The Chicago Force will be meeting their arch-enemies--...
# At June 27, 2008 3:00 PM | Tags: Brandi Srda Bridget Fahrner championship Chicago Force Detroit Demolition feminism football history Linda Bache Melissa Smith Pam Schaffrath philosophy Pittsburgh Passion Sam Grisafe women - My Predictions for the 2008 Chicago Force Regular Season
Regular readers know that I never predict the future, I just predict the past. So, the fact that I'm making predictions about the 2008 women's football regular season means the season is, in fact, over. Fortunately, the Chicago Force is...
# At June 15, 2008 1:20 PM | Tags: Angie Bandstra Bridget Fahrner Chicago Force feminism football humor IWFL Linda Bache McGee Steffes Patricia Harper Patricia Nelson Pittsburgh Passion predictions Sam Grisafe Wisconsin Wolves women - Shutting Out the Clarksville Foxes
Yesterday the Clarksville Fox came to Holmgren Field to play the Chicago Force. As regular readers know, the Chicago Force is our local women's tackle football team, and this year they are on track to make it into the playoffs...
# At June 1, 2008 9:20 AM | Tags: Albiona Zhubi Brandi Srda Bridget Fahrner Chicago Force Chicago Spirit Brigade Clarksville Fox Darcy Leslie feminism football Kimberly Marks Linda Bache Marcie Myers Melissa Smith Sam Grisafe Sofia Sianez Tricia Charbonneau umbrellas weather women - A Big Football Game in a Big Stadium
Yesterday Bruce and Nate drove to Iowa to see the Chicago Force play the Iowa Crush. The Crush are having a tough year, and the Force is having a great one, and the combination produced a lopsided win for the...
# At May 25, 2008 5:07 AM | Tags: Angie Bandstra Brandi Srda Bridget Fahrner Clarksville Fox Darcy Leslie feminism football Iowa Crush Sofia Sianez - A Complicated Weekend With Women's Tackle Football
The school year is coming to an end, and this means there are a lot of band concerts involving The Girl, who is a serious french horn player. One of them started an hour before the kickoff of last Saturday's...
# At May 20, 2008 1:34 PM | Tags: Brandi Srda Chicago Force Clarksville Fox driving family feminism football humor Iowa Iowa Crush Melissa Smith Peg-Eye Nate Sam Grisafe The Girl The Gremline Wisconsin Warriors women - Really Bad News About Peg-Eye Nate
It's been a rough couple of weeks for Chicago Force football fans. The game against the Columbus Phantoms was postponed, and there was no game last weekend, so it's been a while. The good news is that this Saturday will...
# At May 12, 2008 10:18 PM | Tags: Chicago Force Columbus Phantoms driving family feminism football humor Peg-Eye Nate satire Wisconsin Warriors - A Cold, Dark Place for a Football Game
Yesterday Bruce and Nate traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin to see the women of the Chicago Force take on the Wisconsin Warriors. Unlike their trip to Madison, Wisconsin two weeks ago, there was no April blizzard to greet them; however, it...
# At April 27, 2008 1:20 PM | Tags: Brandi Srda Chicago Force Columbus Phantoms family feminism football humor sports The Girl Wisconsin Wisconsin Warriors - Having a Really Good Time with Umbrellas at a Football Game
Last night was the home opener for the Chicago Force, and Bruce and Nate were there banging their umbrellas to cheer on the team. The opposing team was the Detroit Demolition. I have to admit that I felt a certain...
# At April 20, 2008 7:11 PM | Tags: Brandi Srda Bridget Fahrner Chicago Force Detroit Demolition encased meat feminism football Hot Doug humor Keesha Brooks Kimberly Marks Pam Schaffrath sports umbrellas women - Watching Women's Football During an April Blizzard
Yesterday Bruce and Nate drove up to Middleton, Wisconsin to see the Chicago Force play the Wisconsin Wolves in the Force's season opener. Although most maps place Wisconsin immediately north of Illinois, in fact it is located somewhere in the...
# At April 13, 2008 1:16 AM | Tags: baseball feminism football global warming humor mozzarella cheese satire weather Wisconsin - Getting Ready for the Women's Tackle Football Season
Yesterday Bruce and Nate drove to Holmgren Field to see a full-contact scrimmage by the Chicago Force. A scrimmage is essentially a football game where the team plays against itself. Because football strategy involves a heavy does of misdirection, a...
# At March 31, 2008 12:39 PM | Tags: Chicago Force feminism football sports women - Important Safety Tip While Driving on Highway 53 North of the I-90 Tollway
It turns out there is a junior league hockey team called The Chicago Force operating in the northwest suburbs. This organization has nothing to do with Bruce and Nate's favorite football team, the Chicago Force. I'm mentioning this in case...
# At September 19, 2007 8:52 PM | Tags: family football hockey humor panic parody women - Game Time Rap
As I have mentioned before, Chicago Force Running Back Esther Henigan is a vocalist. The audio clip below is the theme song she wrote for the team, which was played at half time during the final game of the season....
# At July 8, 2007 6:25 PM | Tags: Chicago Force Esther Henigan humor music satire The Girl - The Demolition Won, but the Party Afterward Was Still Fun
The Force's final game of the season was against their arch-rivals the Detroit Demolition, the only team that's been able to beat them this year. The Demolition's success rate really bugs Peg-Eye Nate, who says the their uniforms are a...
# At July 1, 2007 1:51 PM | Tags: beer Chicago Force Detroit Demolition Diane Didier Esther Henigan feminism football Hamburger Mary's humor Miller Lite sports women - Another Shutout Against the Predators, 69-0 for the Force
Today's game was against the Detroit Predators, essentially a rerun of the game two weeks ago, except on the Force's home turf. The Predators, however, were suffering from more than the Away Field Disadvantage. For some unknown reason, they chose...
# At June 23, 2007 11:59 PM | Tags: Chicago Force Dan Ryan Expressway Debbie Sanchez Detroit Demolition Detroit Predators Esther Henigan feminism football grizzly bears humor Jennifer Dulski sports The Gremlin - Chicago Tonight Does a Segment on the Force
The Chicago Force was the subject of a 6-minute segment on Chicago Tonight. Chicago Tonight is on public television, a medium I've never really trusted, but Bruce insisted we watch it anyway. The segment began with the usual Oh My...
# At June 21, 2007 11:59 PM | Tags: Angie Bandstra Chicago Force Chicago Tonight feminism football humor Jim Stahl Kimberly Marks Linda Bache sports WTTW - Detroit Demolition Clinches Division Title, Bruce Depressed
Saturday the Detroit Demolition defeated the Kansas City Storm, which means the Demolition has clinched the division championship. If the Chicago Force wins their next two games, they will finish with the same record as the Demolition, but they will...
# At June 18, 2007 8:41 PM | Tags: Chicago Force Detroit Demolition football Hamburger Mary's humor mozzarella cheese Sargento's sports T's Bar - Introducing the Conservative Cat Force Fan Brolly Bangers
- Shutout in Detroit
This weekend the Chicago Force played the Detroit Predators in the Predators' home stadium in Livonia Michigan. Bruce and Nate wanted to attend the game, but its a 4.5 hour drive each way. Now, some people may think that only...
# At June 10, 2007 3:37 AM | Tags: cats Chicago Force Detroit Predators environmentalism Esther Henigan family feminism football Jennifer Dulski Linda Bache mozzarella cheese Sargento's sports The Girl - Not Your Father's Football Team
For the past two Saturdays Bruce and Peg-Eye Nate have been traveling to Chicago's North Side to watch the Chicago Force play football. The Force play in a small, school-style stadium, where the fans sit close to the action and...
# At June 4, 2007 5:25 AM | Tags: Chicago Force conservative Erica Studley Ericka Bell-Coleman family feminism football Jennifer Dulski Kenshira Traylor Kristina Kucar Linda Bache Nicole Cromwell philosophy sports terrorism - The Chicago Force Football Team
The Chicago Force is beginning its fundraising campaign for the 2006 season. The Force is one of the top women's pro-tackle football teams in the country, and competes in the Independent Women's Football League. Bruce and I feel very strongly...
# At January 18, 2006 12:57 AM | Tags: Chicago Force feminism football humor lesbianism satire sports violence women
