The first paycheck Jen Welter got from professional football was for $12 – and it was for a whole season, a dollar a game, including a championship.
Welter never bothered cashing that check, instead making it a keepsake and inspiration that she still carries around today, tucked into a purse that Tuesday was upstairs at the Cardinals’ Tempe facility while she talked to everyone about being the first female coach in the NFL.
Welter is one of seven interns Cardinals coach Bruce Arians has brought aboard, and her work with the inside linebackers will only last through the preseason.