Odder, yet more compelling, examples come via kids’ TV. |  Her close involvement with the production helps account for its verisimilitude — some lines of dialogue even came directly from things she told the writers. “Everyone acts like I’m from Mars, except the guys on the team,” Maida tells her mother at one point. “The coach treats me different because I’m not a boy, you treat me different because I play football, they treat me different because they don’t know what I am. She had been playing in Canada with no issue, but when Maida said she wanted to try out for the Pilomath High School team, all hell broke loose. Maida O’Meara, who was just 16 at the time, and her family served as consultants on the film. “How am I supposed to know what you’re like?” he asks her after a botched first date. The exception, perhaps surprisingly to viewers, tends to be in the locker room itself. “There’s always sort of two camps,” she says now. [3], Her story was the basis of the CBS movie Quarterback Princess, with Helen Hunt as Maida. “But everything takes time. I was just like, ‘What the heck?’”. She was also Hunt’s stunt double: most of the time you see Hunt actually throwing passes or taking snaps, that’s Maida O’Meara. “It’s kind of confusing, isn’t it,” is all he can muster. External Sites, When we got got word that Bleacher Report posted a "20 Hottest, Real Life Quarterback Princess Wins Football Game, Homecoming Crown in Same Night. Though Maida seemed to wind up having it all — on-field success and validation of her girlhood as a member of homecoming court — she’s acutely aware of what a tricky line it can still be to walk for young girls. “It is still the same language, the same story, the same questions,” she says.

“People would ask about their girls playing, and I’d always be very encouraging and say, ‘Yeah, come out and try,’” she says. “I actually took pride in being able to get smashed and bashed and stand up and say, ‘Let’s go, next play.’ I think that made a big difference in terms of how I was able to connect with my teammates.”. Derrick Henry’s punishing running style is fueling the Titans on their undefeated start. The high school sophomore quarterback has the game to live up to his famous name. The Warriors had been told that Tami Maida was about six feet tall and 180 pounds, not a bad size for a quarterback. Here's a true story: At age 14, Tami Maida earned a roster spot on her high school football team in Oregon. However, because she is a girl, everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor is against her. Maida O’Meara was hired as a motivational speaker for athletes of all stripes while she was still in high school, and says the lessons she learned playing football wound up shaping much of her life. The story was fairly current with the actual events.

“We hear about more girls playing,” she says. Lindsay Lohan also took a crack at the girl QB role in the profoundly strange Disney TV movie Life-Size (2000). Someone sent a picture of me saying I was an abnormal Amazon, and that there was something wrong with my head.