July 27, 2015:

Every year for three days straight we hear these words over and over again:

With the next selection in the (insert year) NFL Draft, the (insert team) selects (insert player).

I'm sure most of us could hear Roger Goodell reciting this famous line as we just read it. While today's announcement came from the Arizona Cardinals' head coach, Bruce Arians and the entire Arizona Cardinals' coaching staff, Roger Goodell certainly should take advantage of and read a historic new line to the American public.

Today's line reads:

With the first female selection in history, the Arizona Cardinals' coaching staff select Jen Welter, intern inside linebacker coach.

Coach's Bio:

• Jen Welter, 37
• Rugby at Boston College
• 14+ years of football experience (mainly with the Women's Football Alliance's Dallas Diamonds)
• 2014: Played special teams and running back for the Indoor Football League's Texas Revolution
• 2015: Assistant coach for the Revolution
• FEMALE

Arizona Cardinals head coach, Bruce Arians said of Welter's gender in relation to her potential success as a coach: "I wanted to open that door. Coaching is nothing more than teaching. The one thing I've learned from players: All they want to know is 'How you going to make me better? If you can make me better, I don't (care) if you're the Green Hornet. I'll listen."

Although Welter has only been hired as an intern for the Cardinals' coaching staff this summer, she is hopeful that this will lead to further opportunities in the NFL, and with this announcement, the Arizona Cardinals will help Jen Welter break boundaries for women in sports across the country. Or will they?

It is no question that sports is a man's world, and women, whether they be athletes, coaches, writers, or announcers, are just here for a visit. If you argue otherwise, chances are that you are a man. I do not mean to discredit the advances men or women have made in the sports world. Both genders have had great successes in their own right, however I am here to focus on the boundaries in the sports world women must face everyday. Here are some who have overcome such boundaries:

• Jane Chastain is regarded as a pioneer for women's sports' casting when she began her career in the mid '60s. She was the first woman to work in such a position with a large network (CBS) and is considered the first woman to do play-by-play.

• Mo'ne Davis was the first girl to throw a shutout in the Little League World Series (2014) and the first Little Leaguer to appear on the cover of well-respected sports magazine, Sports Illustrated. Plus, she just won an ESPY for Breakout Athlete.

• Violet Palmer became the first female NBA referee in 1997.

• Becky Hammon became the first full-time paid female assistant coach on an NBA coaching staff with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014.

• Janet Guthrie (1970's) and Danica Patrick (present) both compete in NASCAR's Indy 500 and Daytona 500. The sport is dominated by male drivers.

• Shannon Eastin (2012) became the first woman to officiate a regular-season NFL game.

Of course, today, we can add Jen Welter to this list of accomplished women.

Although these women and several others have made incredible advances for fellow females in the sporting world, there remains a huge amount of ground to make-up if women hope to be viewed as equals on the playing field and in the broadcasting center with men. In this progressive year, gay marriage was legalized and healthcare was ruled as constitutional, and yet women like Jen Welter are slandered for EARNING their new position in a man's world by people who I could confidently assume did not know who she was until she 'stole' a man's job.

Moreover, countless people are taking to social media to express their disdain for the Cardinals' new coaching staff member, in a less than open-minded way I might add:

This whole women belong in the kitchen 'joke' is so outdated that it should be laughable. Unfortunately, it can't be because the fact is there are still people who wholeheartedly believe women should be confined to the home and to raising their children as a full-time job while their husbands rule the professional world and the sporting world. Women will never be able to truly make advances until everyone, both men AND women, recognize that women have the ability to possess the same talents and as Arians put it, "teaching" abilities as men possess.

One could only hope that the trend of more female pioneering athletes appearing in the last 10 years will continue steadily into the future.

There is some good news: women in sports and sports broadcasting is becoming much less an anomaly as it is more a normalcy. Hopefully, it is no coincidence that Jen Welter coached the Revolution prior to joining the Cardinals because that may be what she is continuing in sports for women: a revolution.