Following Their Passion, Women Go Far to Play Flag Football

FREMONT, NEBRASKA - From a distance, it looks like college kids in sweat clothes tossing a football around on a campus green space. 

Draw closer, and it's apparent this is no sandlot game.   A coach is explaining routes he wants receivers to run on a play he calls "Bingo." Then he tells his quarterbacks to make quicker decisions. Next, he demonstrates how a receiver in motion sets up as a blocker next to the center and the running back takes a handoff and heads for a hole that should open on the left side.  The women Jaison Jones is coaching listen intently and ask lots of questions. More than half showed up at Midland University from faraway places to continue playing the growing sport of flag football at the 1,600-student school in a town of 26,000 nestled in the farmland of eastern Nebraska.