11-year-old will make history when she takes the field

[XNASA]

Girl quarterback will be first to play in Pop Warner championship

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsnews/091nd4.htm

--Early this morning, while most Chicagoans were still sleeping, the Harvey Colts junior pee-wee football team woke up, wiped their eyes and drove with their parents and coaches to Midway Airport and boarded a jet to Florida.

Among them was Jasmine Plummer, a modest, pretty and composed young girl.

She's also the Colts' quarterback.

Plummer, an 11-year-old, straight-A student at Maya Angelou Elementary School, will be the first girl ever to play quarterback in the Pop Warner championships since the tournament started 56 years ago.

Plummer said she hasn't noticed the boys on her team treating her any differently, although some opponents appear surprised when she takes off her helmet.--

Bravo to Jasmine and her teammates. Harvey Illinois is more infamous than famous around our area. In the 40's and 50's, Harvey was a flourishing community, but when the steel industry left South Chicago and Northwest Indiana, Harvey fell on hard times. Harvey is the hometown of Lou Boudreau, Tom Dreesen, The Dells, The Chi-Lites and is also the location where the shopping mall scene in the "Blues Brothers" was filmed.

My parents grew up in Harvey. It's making a comeback now.

Good luck to the Harvey Colts and to Jasmine.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Wow! Cool. Good for Jasmine and her team.

I love the Harvey Mall website - it's still standing, but in bad shape.

Nice to see areas like that make a comeback.

[XNASA]

3. I drove a Houston buddy to Midway on Sunday.....

...and pointed out "Dixie Square" (the name of the mall) to him on the way.

He was flabbergasted. He'd never seen anything like it.

Hey, didn't you see the part where the Colts first opponent was a team from Texas? That's awfully gracious of you. I know how big football is in the Lone Star State.

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

4. Yeah, Southeast Apaches...

...I'm wondering if that team is from San Antonio. There are some "Indian-themed" school on the southeast side of town. :shrug:

:hi:

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Yes, excellent news

Harvey and surrounding suburbs are having a rough time, it's true, what with an eroding tax base and all. Really glad to hear some good news.

[XNASA]

6. I took my friend for a tour of the South Burbs........

...on the way to Midway, as previously mentioned.

Harvey, Dixmoor, Markham, Robbins and the town that I grew up in, Posen.

He was quite surprised that all of Chicagoland isn't like Oak Park or the North Side, which were the only places he's really been to.

I hope that the airport gets built in Peotone. It would really give a boost to that area.

It's sad for me to see what's happened. When I was a kid, we would go shopping in downtown Harvey and it was still thriving. Now it's a ghost town.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Airport In Peotone

Yeah, i don't get those folks who live in our neck of the woods who oppose it. I understand Daley's objections and those of the folks around O'Hare. But, i don't know why anyone who lives south of I-80 would oppose an opportunity to breathe life into decaying communities.

I just don't get that.
The Professor

[XNASA]

8. Yep. It just makes too much sense, I guess.

Nobody is saying that another O'Hare should be built in Peotone.

In fact, the plan would be to build what more or less amounts to a cargo airport, with only a minimal number of passenger flights.

My cousin owns about 25 acres right in the middle of where the airport would be. She's not complaining. Quite the contrary, she and her husband planted Christmas trees so if the time comes when the are forced to sell, they can make a nice profit.

Building an airport in Peotone would be the best thing to happen to the South burbs in the last 50 years.

BTW, it was great seeing you and the Mrs. the other night. Thanks for stopping by. And your mustache never looked better. Simply fantastic.

:hi:

[ProfessorGAC]

10. My Saddam Mustache, I'll Have You Know

With that look, i have NEVER been stopped for special scrutiny at the airports. Even overseas on flights back to the U.S.

If anyone looks like a potential terrorist, i would think it would be me. But, no! Even i would double check someone who looked like me.

Thanks again for having us. Sorry we had to split so early. My wife and i are early to rise, early to bed types.

Maybe we're stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut, . . .
The Professor

[VelmaD]

5. Oh this makes me wish...

when I was little they still wouldn't let little girls play in Pop Warner. Wouldn't let us play on the elementary school team either. Bastards. I really really wanted to - I love football.

I woulda been a great linebacker. Hell, I'm about the same size as Dexter Coakley and I have a bad attitude. :evilgrin:

I hope that little girl and her team kick everyone else's teeth in. Even the team from Texas.

[underpants]

9. My cousin was the first girl to play in her WV town's little league

Mid-70's whoo boy did cause a ruckus. She was the starting SHORT STOP!

But playing for the national title is HUGE! good for her and good for the parties involved for not getting in the way.