Peggy was not a Graduate Assistant Coach because she was an undergrad. She did not have a football scholarship; D3 teams could not give football scholarships. She had not applied for academic funding because her Father, who was not identified any place in her academic portfolio (although in the check for the application fee, he had signed his name legibly), was not poor. Only Peggy and her Mother and a few close friends knew who her father was, what NFL team he played for, and why his relationship with her Mother was not public. "It was and is not precisely a mistake," her Mother had explained about the man who visited Peggy and her Mother at least every other week.

Peggy was 5'4" -- not large enough to play football, even if that was possible for a woman in 1989. What she wanted to do was learn how to coach because sometime in the future that might be possible. Her primary value to the team was backyard experience in how to protect the offense.

"It's about time that your mother married that huge, attractive, banker," Peggy's Grandmother was likely to say.

"Dad isn't a banker, he's an offensive lineman", Peggy more than once explained to her Grandmother.