 Carly Lloyd you could be the first woman to play in the NFL now this thing all kicked off as all good things do in 2019 with a viral video it began at the Philadelphia Eagles training camp where Lloyd had gone for a casual visit She took some kicks and nailed one over the crossbar from 55 yards Now 55 yards is no joke It doesn't matter who you are and it doesn't matter how many steps you take to run up to the board And it was enough to pique the interest of several NFL teams within days Not only is the thing gone crazy on the internet, but a number of teams had reached out to Lloyd When I spoke to her trainer James Galanis on Monday the timing could not have been better Just a couple of hours earlier another NFL team had reached out to Lloyd and this time with a different and potentially Historic twist they'd offered her not only the chance to turn up at training camp But to actually join the roster suit up and kick in an official NFL pre-season game That's the kind of thing that history is made of folks think about this for a second in 2019 an NFL team reached out to a female athlete and said we want you with us in pre-season That's significant and that's history in itself Carly Lloyd now has the opportunity potentially to make a much bigger slice of history to actually take part in an NFL game She doesn't have certainty and what she does have are a whole bunch of challenges For a start she'll have to generate that same kind of 55-yard tower, but from fewer steps You don't get that much time when it's an NFL field goal It'll also be significant questions about what might happen if a field goal was blocked and suddenly Carly Lloyd would be having to Play defense in a real NFL game There's been questions about it from the likes of LA charges wide receiver Kenan Allen Who suggested that Lloyd might be steamroller if such a situation arose that something should have to be physically ready for Even though only a tiny number of NFL field goals are blocked each season But here's the kind of crazy thing about all this This isn't like some kicker coming in from a 10,000 seat college stadium and suddenly finding themselves in the NFL If and when Carly Lloyd plays in an NFL game, it wouldn't be the biggest moment of her entire sporting career Remember this is a player who scored two game-winning goals in Olympic gold medal games and scored a hat trick within the first 15 minutes of A World Cup final what's by hundreds of millions of people around the world This is someone who knows she has what it takes to perform on the biggest stage of all and when the stakes are the biggest of all And that's why when she emailed me on Monday night. She is actively considering this She has the full support of the people closest to her her husband Brian Hollins and her trainer James Galan It's both of whom know Carly and they know that this is right for her She'll have to conquer all the critics and conquer history just to get a chance It's not a certainty and it's not even close to it But believe me this is a possibility and that's a lot more than there was before