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Heck, they could give us the change in their couch.". Take, for example, the way athletes are posed on the covers of magazines. The WFA gives everyday women with the financial means the opportunity to participate in full-contact tackle football. The WFA estimates that the annual cost per player—which accounts for field rental, equipment, uniforms, videography, web hosting, and some of the travel—is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,200 to $2,500. Both of the Kings are former football players; Jeff played in college until he was sidelined with a knee injury, while Lisa played with the Los Angeles Amazons for two years. While the NFL sides were deciding how to divvy up $9 billion, Women's Football Alliance players were running routes for the love of the game. Passionate about the sport, they created the WFA to create a more cohesive league for women—because, while women’s tackle-football teams and leagues have existed for decades, funding has always been an issue. “If you look at where we were 30 years ago, my mom didn’t get to play sports, and the women who did play sports were totally ostracized,” she says. The Women's Football Alliance (WFA) is a professional full-contact Women's American football league that began play in 2009. WFA games are tackle, completely padded gridiron football. WFA teams struggle to attract viewers in person in addition to on TV. The WFA has operated as the largest women’s tackle football league in the country since it was founded in 2007 by husband-and-wife team Jeff and Lisa King, of Exeter, California. This section needs to be updated. "One of our teammates told a New York Giants player she played in the WFA and didn't get paid. Women, on the other hand, are much more likely to be posed like sex symbols or models. Tolliver admits that she’s “injured all the time,” and has had multiple surgeries. call_ad_new('halfpage','tn_article','ad-halfpage-195020-0','rectangle_1',{"tn_author":"'hanna-b'","tn_articleid":195020,"tn_ptype":"article","tn_keyword":"'football', 'gender-equ', 'mainstream', 'media-bias', 'nfl', 'sexism'","tn_subject":"'culture', 'feminism', 'gender-and', 'society', 'sports'","tn_slp":""});

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