Tulsa has a professional women’s football team.
Traditionally speaking, most contact sports have been dominated by men. There are very few sports at the professional level as a whole, but with the exception of ice hockey, contact sports for women are few and far between.
Then you come across the Tulsa Threat, a professional women’s tackle football team. The squad is comprised of 28 ladies, thirteen of them veteran players, who play their home games at the football stadium on the Webster High School campus. The squad has been around for five years playing initially as the Tulsa Eagles in the Women’s Football Alliance and this season they debuted in the Independent Women’s Football League as the Tulsa Threat.
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John Fogerty used a reference to the new grass on the field in springtime describing the traditional national pastime and, since the Tulsa Roughnecks FC coincidentally plays their home games at ONEOK Field, the same could be said of soccer.