homos in football? shocking.
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You know, at this point I really do imagine crafting an actually response to this sort of person is a too much of a chore.
Perhaps we should just call him a cretin and move on?
And there are no gay metaphors in the game of American football today, right? Um, you do realize that every play begins with someone standing behind someone else, both of whom are crouched down and leaning forward, with the guy in back putting his hands between the legs of the guy in front so they can pass a phallus-shaped ball between them. And that's not even getting into the tights they have to wear.
"they’ve been pushing homo friendly subliminal advertisement in commercials during the games for a number of years."
No, your desire for gay sex is not because of "subliminal advertising" you closet case.
Okay, this is too easy. But still..
"Get all this gayness out of my football already. I'm trying to enjoy a game involving a bunch of sweaty, grunting men piling on top of each other."
"satisfy your football needs with the college games"
Where do you think NFL players come from? They're not hatched from pods, you know.
And much like the military, it's likely gay players have always been there, just not openly. Same with other sports.
@Raised by Horses
Not to mention slapping each others butts, and quarterbacks catching a ball that the center snapped from between his legs.
"satisfy your football needs with the college games."
But liberal dominated education means colleges are full of child raping homos!
What you need is elementary school football. All those pretty virgin 10 year olds just for you.
Because this totally doesn't look gay:
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Or this:
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Not to mention the end of each play when there's a bunch of sweaty guys piled on top of each other.
But gay-friendly subliminal advertisements during football games? I think you're just seeing things because you need to come out of the closet.
Uh, those gay NFL guys started out in college & both versions of the game look the same...a bunch of beefy guys in tight spandex & padding smashing into & piling on each other! How homoerotic!
Also, the cultures of both the NFL & College Football tend to have an aura of stinky, macho, sexist, hyper-masculine heterosexism. It's a good thing the gay players are coming out.
"satisfy your football needs with the college games."
Yes, your closeted football needs. After all, where did the NFL get their players from...?!
@Doubting Thomas
Q.E. and D.
A perfect example of Argument Annihilation, and so graphically , too. It fair does the heart of this 'ere Dogma Destroyer good to know I'm not the only one doing so. Keep it up.
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This makes sense.
Although televised college football has many of the same commercials, Sonic Drive-In is a heavy college football advertiser. Sonic was also a hedgehog. Hedgehogs burrow in holes in the ground. The ground is Mother Earth, so that's way hetero. Additionally, when teams wear alternate uniforms, they are usually either inspired by the look of armor or camo (hetero).
In the NFL, players occasionally wear pink. Supposedly, this is to save titties (hetero), but pink on men is gay. Also, during the Super Bowl this year, an ad ran with a dork kissing a hottie which was proven to turn 12% of all male viewers gay.
Oh, please. American football is almost as homoerotic as professional wrestling. (That is to say, VERY.)
Freepers need to get over themselves. As if the NFL would notice if a hundred or so insecure knuckledraggers stopped watching.
I wonder how the Freepers would react if it was pointed out that the MMA includes gay fighters as well... (Shad Smith, anyone?)
"satisfy your football needs with the college games."
Because every gay man in the NFL magically turned gay the day they were drafted, amirite?
Your football needs? You mean the need to watch muscular and sweaty men groping each other, chasing a ball?
Nah, there's nothing "gay" in that, no sireee!
if nfl goes fag
I find the naïve assumption that rough, physical manly man activity automatically excludes homosexuality extremely amusing.
The possibility that a number of the sports stars whom "sten" has admired all his life are gay lies somewhere around 100%. I wonder if he is aware of that.
Just to keep things in perspective:
Unless you're prepared to do a "Boys From Brazil": clone Timmy Tea-bowl, and raise such in similar Christian & 'hoemskuled' conditions, I'm afraid you won't completely eliminate teh ghey from American Football, pro or amateur.
...oh, and speaking of which, even if you have purely straight players [/snark ] how are said players going to make a moneymaking career out of their talent once they leave college, pray tell...?! [/snark II]
I demand that you tell said players not to go to the NFL. Either they'll point & laugh at you, or reduce you to a near-two dimensional state, just as the defence do to quarterbacks.
Good luck with that. Every second you're not , means your 'argument' FAILS in perpetuity. Capitalism can be such a bitch, can she not?!
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Football won't stop being homoerotic until it looks like this:
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I've come up against this "subliminal" idea quite a lot recently. I think it's a bit imprecise. Adverts DO use insidious and suggestive imagery, which are psychologically manipulative, and do set up certain associations. But it's a mistake to think of it as "subliminal", which implies that it's all happening at a level below our control. The messages are in fact not "hidden" or "subconscious", because if they were they wouldn't affect us, though they often are insidious, manipulative, and suggestive. But it all happens on the conscious level.
The usual message, sometimes more or less subtle, sometimes not, is "If you buy this product you will be cool". So, why would companies want to be inclusive of diversity, and portray homosexuals positively? Because they know that homosexuals, as much as anyone else, are a source of profit.
There are also gay gas station attendants, gay farmers, gay construction workers and gay musicians. Why not stop driving, eating or listening to music and just curl up in a ball in the woods somewhere?
If you slam into a gay guy so hard it rattles his fillings, passion may not be the first thing on his mind. Also the efficacy of subliminal advertising was discounted decades ago. In brief, it doesn't exist.
Gay football players exist, and that is a problem because...?
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... No answer. That's what I thought. Gay people can pursue any career they wish, and there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it.
Since your football needs are unsatisfied, try watching rugby. You'll be able to enjoy lots of sweaty men, but without all that homo body armour. Unfortunately, it is largely played in Godless Europe so some players are atheists. You can't win them all.
"... if nfl goes fag: "
Doubting Thomas: I'd argue that that last picture is "homoerotic," just not in the "traditional" way. :) (i.e., for females who like females.) Those are some very attractive (and competent, I'm sure) female football players. (I'm a female bisexual, by the way, so I'm sure I'm just "confused." ;)
Right, because the "nfl [going] fag" isn't something that's already happened; out of all the (American) football players, I'm sure none of them have been gay before now. *eyeroll*
What none of these homophobes seem to understand is that "support of our fellow players who are gay" does not equal "we are all now, every single one of us, so gay we spontaneously generate rainbows on the field." Even if we accept the generally accepted statistic that approximately 1/10 people are gay (not to mention the bisexuals), that would only make at most approximately 170 players (out of 1696 total ) gay.
they’ve been pushing homo friendly subliminal advertisement in commercials
Except that there was a scare about subliminal advertising in the late 1950s leading to its banning in many jurisdictions despite the fact that, although there has been a huge number of studies done on subliminal TV advertising, there is next to no evidence to suggest that it has any effect.
Enjoy your college football, sten.
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