ABSTRACT
In the “Bart Star” (1997a) episode of The Simpsons, which first aired on November 9, 1997, eight-year-old Lisa Simpson appears at a youth football tryout prepared for one of her trademark confrontations by asking head coach Ned Flanders, “What position have you got for me?” Lisa continues, “That’s right. A girl wants to play football. How about that?” Lisa is dumbfounded when Flanders replies, “Well, that’s super-duper, Lisa. We’ve already got four girls on the team.” As it turns out, Lisa is about twenty-five years too late in her quest to become a trailblazer for women’s rights in sports. Had she made such a proclamation in the early 1970s, she might have been the first girl to play organized youth football.
