LA Times · Jul 29, 2015
On the NFL: Jen Welter is a breakthrough performer
Jen Welter, right, speaks along side of Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians during a press conference where she was named an intern coach for the team on Tuesday. (Ralph Freso /)For Jen Welter, the most appealing part of joining the Arizona Cardinals' coaching staff is not that she's an NFL pioneer — the first female coach in league history — but that she's treated like an equal.
That hasn't always been the case.
When she made headlines by playing in a men's professional league for the Texas Revolution — a 5-foot-2, 130-pound running back brave enough to run into a wall of defenders — she was relegated to the dance-team locker room to suit up.