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Plenty of films have been made about Texas football, but so few from a woman’s perspective. I’m being deliberately obtuse. Women in Texas football movies barely exist at all, other than as girlfriends, wives, worried moms, or occasionally whipped-cream-covered cheerleaders. There are exceptions, like 1991’s Necessary Roughness, where supermodel Kathy Ireland joins a desperate Texas college team, a premise the film treats as slightly less outlandish than if she were a trained mule. And in what is probably the first Texas football movie ever made, 1936’s Pigskin Parade, Patsy Kelly plays a coach’s wife who knows the game better than her husband and who eventually steps up to lead the team to a national championship. But these films are comedies. The joke is that these…

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