Josh WeinfussJul 25, 2025, 06:00 AM ETCloseJosh Weinfuss is a staff writer who covers the Arizona Cardinals and the NFL at ESPN. Josh has covered the Cardinals since 2012, joining ESPN in 2013. He is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America and a graduate of Indiana University.Follow on X
Josh WeinfussJul 25, 2025, 06:00 AM ET
CloseJosh Weinfuss is a staff writer who covers the Arizona Cardinals and the NFL at ESPN.
Josh has covered the Cardinals since 2012, joining ESPN in 2013. He is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America and a graduate of Indiana University.Follow on X
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AMELIA WILSON LOVEDbasketball.
A decade ago, when she was 12, hoops was her thing. It wasn’t her first love, though.
That was always football.
Starting when she was 3, Wilson remembers sitting with her father, former Div. III player Lawyer Wilson, Jr., and watching his belovedPhiladelphia Eagles, who eventually became her beloved Eagles. They’d sit on the couch for a few hours on Sundays, and he’d teach her the game — the intricacies, the passion, the fandom.
It was a way for a father and daughter to bond.
But she didn’t settle on just being a fan. That passion for the game evolved into a history-making journey. Wilson is entering her second season as an assistant coach with theBuffalo Bills, working with the offensive line.
“There was just something about football when I first watched it, it was like, ‘Man, I want to be a part of that.
I want to play it. Anything I could do, I want to be in football,'” Wilson told ESPN.
Like with many childhood dreams, however, reality eventually interfered. As she got older, Wilson learned there weren’t many opportunities for women in football.
Things changed, however, on July 27, 2015.
That’s when Jen Welter was hired by formerArizona Cardinalscoach Bruce Arians as a training camp intern, becoming the first woman to coach in the NFL.
“It was larger than life, and yet so normal,” Welter said.
“The idea of it was bigger than I could have ever dreamed possible as a little girl who remembered somebody telling me, ‘Girls don’t do that.’ …
Source: Espnnfl
