If flag football advocate Tom Brady had gotten involved with women’s tackle football seven years ago, the founder and CEO of the Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC) says it wouldn’t have mattered.
“The product wasn’t where it needed to be,” Odessa Jenkins told Front Office Sports in an interview this week.
But as the 16-team professional women’s tackle football league prepares for its championship game to air on ESPN2 on June 21 as part of a new, multi-year deal with the network, Jenkins says they’d welcome him now: “Shout out to Tom Brady. We’re ready for your support now.”
That confidence comes on the heels of what Jenkins describes as the strongest regular season yet for the WNFC, which began play in 2019.
“This sport is still in the awareness phase,” she said. “But we had a great year. Our attendance was up 25 percent. We had a new team come into the league and blow away some of our regular season attendance numbers. They had almost 3,000 people at each of their games.”
