Krista Ford: Lingerie Football League player turned revolutionary

Krista Ford, niece of mayor Rob Ford and daughter of councillor Doug Ford, rocked the sports world yesterday with the news that she was leaving the Lingerie Football League. “It was one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make thus far, however, I had to stand up for what I felt was right,” she wrote on Facebook. The Toronto Star reports that Ford’s team, the Toronto Triumph, cut four players after losing their first game by a wide margin. Ford and others then quit in protest. But the Star leaves out one crucial detail regarding Ford’s retirement: her decision to use a quotation, often attributed to Malcolm X, in her Facebook post: “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” Oh, dear. Read the entire story [Toronto Star] »