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Diamonds — The No Strip Club
By: By Tom Archdeacon
Updated: 04/23/2009 at 11:02 AM
Dayton Daily News -
Diamonds — The No Strip Club
By Tom Archdeacon | Saturday, April 18, 2009, 05:28 PM When she was trying to come up with a name for her football team, Tanya Jackson said her line of thinking went like this: “I thought Dayton Diamonds was perfect because we’re all women and we all like diamonds. And this is The Gem City… I’m old school.” And, with that, the colorful owner of the Women’s Football Alliance team started to laugh: “The name got me some criticism, too. Some people said, “You know there’s a strip club in Dayton called Diamonds?’ I said, ‘Yeah, but that’s got nothing to do with us. We’re the Dayton Diamonds. We’re the gals who keep our clothes on.’” Over the years there have been a few brief attempts at women’s football in Dayton. Back in the 1970s, Jackson played for the Dayton Fillies and she was a defensive coach for the Dayton Rebellion when it was around a short while a few years ago. In their second year, the Diamonds — who are opening their season Saturday night, against the Indiana Speed in Indianapolis — have some 35 women who come from all walks of life. Among them are a barber, baker, horse trainer, nurse, school teacher, occupational and physical therapists, Sinclair fitness instructor, Air Force officer and a Washington Township attorney, Virginia “Jenny” Crews. In Sunday’s newspaper — and posted later some place on this web page — I’ll have a couple of other storties on the Diamionds. One is on Crews, the criminal defense attorney who last week had a full slate of drug and assault cases. Another story is on Pisce McCoy, Salem Avenue barber and self-described :”firecracker” who holds her on on the football field and in the male bastion of the barbershop. When she started playing, Crews, a linebacker and defensive end, said men would say ‘That’s nice. You play touch or flag?’ And I’d go, ‘No, real football. We wear pads and we tackle people.’ “And then most of the guys would get excited about it. They’d start telling me about the position they played, the injuries they had, all the high school stories. All of sudden I was like one of them. Kind of like they let me into their men’s club.” That would be the one, as Jackson said, where the gals keep their clothes on.
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