WHALER APPAREL NOW AVAILABLE! Whaler Football. Whaler Football on turf. Thanks to Cathy Parker, that's now a reality. Parker, a Florida mother of three sons who play high school football, watched an ESPN special with her 11-year-old daughter about a football team that practiced on gravel and rocks. It struck an emotional chord. Parker led the efforts to supply the nation's first Arctic high school football team with artificial turf.