From The Non-Fan's Guide to Super Bowl XXXVIII:
"It is an immutable physical law that at any Super Bowl party of sufficient size, some non-fan will offer the insight that football is, in fact, very, very gay. The wag will then point to terminology (tight ends, backfields in motion, etc.), customs (the center snap, ass-slapping, etc.), and off-field activity (hugging on the sidelines, teammates taking each other out to dinner and then having sex with each other, etc.) as evidence that football is a festival of latent homosexuality. Football fans will inevitably respond with anger, and a teasing melee will ensue. Do not get involved in this discussion. It never goes anywhere, and it's an unfair attack on football fans and their incredibly gay sport."
For further provocation, see yesterday's entry at Fanatical Apathy. (Note: those football fans who have not yet gotten the concept of 'satire' might want to avoid this particular entry.)
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A quiet, gray Sunday morning in la Plaza de Chueca.
rws 3:54 AM [+]