Actually, the late Alan Dundes, a noted UC Berkeley
folklorist, made the connection in the 1980s in an academic
paperwhich somehow got noticed in TIME, etc. and was there
ever a row after that...
Best, MEH
> I also have to agree about the homoerotics of
football. One of the
> funniest bits I have ever run across on the Internet
is this
> observation by Noah Diamond:
>
> "Football and homosexuality - just something I like
to point out. I
> have no problem with football, and I have no problem
with
> homosexuality - I just have a problem with the fact
that the obvious
> link between these two things is so rarely
advertised. Football wears
> the cultural mantle of the ultimate heterosexual
machismo trip -
> something straight guys love, and something many
straight guys feel
> only a gay guy would dislike. But that's a lie. What
football actually
> represents, I think, is the acceptably mainstream
expression of the
> heterosexual male's closeted obsession with
homoeroticism. Say it with
> me. There is nothing gayer than football. You'll
never see a ballet,
> for example, more homoerotic than a football game.
Never! Go to a
> ballet, and men are dancing with women; go to a
football game, and men
> are patting each other on the ass. Which is the
least of it. Fuck,
> I'll bet most gay porn isn't as homoerotic as a
football game - that
> testosterone-dripping event in which a bunch of big,
strong guys line
> up, bend over, jump all over each other, and then go
take a shower
> together."
>
> Best regards,
> Mark Harris
>
>
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