Having a female play-by-play announcer would add contrast to the broadcast of originally two male voices like seen on news channels where there are two anchors one male, one female. But that just isn’t seen in sports.  The problem is that society believes that women do not understand sports. At some point, this rhetoric becomes internalized and women choose not to get into sports creating a cycle of oppression and exclusion.

Media representations of women and their lack of knowledge in sports is ubiquitous and can be seen in romantic comedy movies like Fever Pitch. In the movie, Jimmy Fallon is unable to get in a long-term relationship with a woman because of his obsession with the Redsox. That kind of speaks to how controlling images illustrate that women will never understand sports and the relationship it has with men. To make matters worse, for the women who actually are interested in sports they are seen as threatening to men as we have seen with dominant female athletes. Sports are perceived to be for the entertainment of men and having a woman “intrude” on this freedom to watch sports makes a villain out of her because men have to “repress” their expressions of “masculinity” in the presence of the other sex.