There's no crying in football!

If you want to engage in an exercise in futility, I suggest you attempt to be the coach of a girl's powderpuff football team. The M1/Medical Masters girls are playing the M2 girl in a powderpuff football game sometime in late September/early October. We had about 10-12 guys show up in an effort to coach 25-30 girls. I was the only guy who had any actual football experience, and most of the girls didn't understand basic fundamental concepts of football (i.e. a forward pass, who the quarterback is, what the line of scrimmage is, etc.).
Now, come on. I know you have to have seen at least a portion of a football game before. Surely your high school had a football team, you must have went to a game?
I did my best, but it was pretty similar to coaching 6 year olds amped up on sugar. Don't get me wrong, the girls were good sports about it, and I think we all had fun. But it wasn't exactly productive, and I really want to win this game.
I'm too competitive aren't I?

I'd like to comment on the Michael Vick situation while we're on the subject of disgraced footballers.

In case you have been living under a rock for the past 3 months, with your eyes closed tight, and your fingers in your ears -- you can look up the background to the situation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Newz_Kennels_dog_fighting_investigation

Okay, Vick is a scumbag, and this is a despicable thing. However -- Vick and his brother were both scumbags long before this broke. They're not good people, anyone with any judge of character should have known this for years.
On top of that -- this is dogs that are being killed/maimed/whatever. Now look, I like dogs, but people are taking this way, way too far. Killing dogs just for fun is wrong, but there are much, much worse things that a person could do. It's only because we have decided that we like dogs that anybody cares about them getting killed.
If you don't believe me, think about this: there are certain animals which, should I see them, I go out of my way to kill. So do you. We all kill cockroaches, spiders, ants, etc. with every chance we get. You could make the argument that a dog is a higher-order animal, and therefore has certain senses (pain, emotions, etc.) that these lower-order animals do not have. That's probably true, but:
a) does that entitle dogs, but not insects and arachnids to certain dignities? Why is that true? Isn't that a pretty arbitrary set of rules to play by?
b) we sanction the killing of animals at least as intelligent as dogs everyday with hunting licenses. Please - don't misunderstand this and think that I am against hunting. But hunting is the intentional killing of animals for fun.
We've just decided that because we like dogs, killing them makes a person inhumane and despicable.
Celebrities get away with much, much worse everyday (something that causes harm to human beings for example) with a much lower penalty. Take Ray Lewis, for example. An NFL player, of the same fame and skill level as Michael Vick. Ray Lewis was proven, in a court of law, to have lied to police who were investigating the murder of a person. Lewis did this in an attempt to protect a guilty friend. Ray Lewis was therefore an accessory to murder, and by definition a conspirator of murder.
Lewis served no jail time, and I don't believe he missed an NFL game.
Again, don't get me wrong, I like dogs. But where the hell have our priorities gone?