One of the things that the modern left loves to do is to spin and distort narratives in order to further their agenda or do some good old social engineering. Sometimes the stuff that they come up is just despicable and nauseating. Othertimes it's just outright hilarious.
Take, for example, the recent case of an alleged "first female college football player in a position that was not a kicker" story promulgated by, among others, The Today Show (a notoriously leftist TV show).
The narrative is that this brave woman is breaking molds and making history by being the first female player in college football, showing how women can be just as good at football, how she can play the game just like the guys, and how in this game she made an excellent tackle in a crucial key point in the game.
However, when you dig deeper, as eg. reported by Matt Walsh, it turns out that the story has been quite heavily spun and exaggerated to make it sound much more... inspiring than it really is.
For starters, this was just a Division 3 football match. Not exactly your highest-level most-watched football.
Secondly, unlike the narrative claims, she is not the first female to play in college football as a non-kicker. (In fact, whenever leftist say that someone is "the first" to do something, you can be almost certain that's not true.)
Thirdly, and most importantly, can you guess how long she played? An American football match is 60 minutes long. How long do you think she played in that match?
A whopping 5 seconds. That's it. One single 5-second play. Then she left. Not exactly a huge achievement. Not exactly your "women can play college football just like men" moment.
Fourthly, unlike the narrative would want us to believe, her actions during those 5 seconds were in no way some kind of decisive "crucial" key moment of the game. In actuality, at that moment her team was up 26-0. They ultimately won the game 48-7. There was nothing "crucial" about that particular moment in the game.
Fifthly, her play was actually against the rules of the game. She committed a very clear case of so-called "roughing the passer" infraction, which is to tackle the quarterback after he has already clearly thrown the ball, or the ball is in the possession of another player. Such an infraction ought to result in a penalty ranging from, at a minimum, a loss of 15 yards for the team, up to expulsion of the player from the game, depending on how egregious the tackle was.
No infraction was called. Either the referees were blind, or they didn't want to create a controversy by penalizing this "historic moment" of a female player needlessly tackling a quarterback unopposed, for no reason.
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