 For example, a male sport such as football, which requires more money for gear and events, as well as produces more revenue, than a sport like girls volleyball, might suffer if their funding was significantly decreased.They firmly believed that this mandate would hurt the schools and that the federal government was overstepping its constitutional powers, and that the only “reasonable solution [was] to allow revenue producing sports to support themselves while making excess funds available to other sports for men and women”.Despite the rejection from the Senate, other senators who supported Tower’s proposal and joined forces, creating the Javits Amendment one month after the Tower Amendment’s rejection.