BobL #fundie

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There are plenty of professions for gays (like interior design, fashion model, actor, hair stylist, flight attendant, etc.). Why can’t they leave one of the few areas where true men compete [the NFL] alone?

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old comment by shykid

Tell that to the now openly gay linebacker I dated in high school. He's still one of the most masculine men I know--gay, straight, or otherwise--and he'll give you a painful little lesson on who's the "true" man.

While he and I aren't dating anymore, we're still good friends, and I genuinely admire his courage to come out and be himself. He had much more pressure on him to stay closeted than I did, and he still came out a year before me. Unlike my other ex-boyfriend, he chose coming out over being a repressed, self-loathing closet case in order to have a "normal" and "successful" life. So, tell me, Bobby, which is manlier: ex #1's courage or #2's cowardice?

Oh, and American football is by far one of the most deliciously homoerotic things I have ever seen in my life precisely [i]because[/i] it's so over-the-top manly. Woof!

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old comment by Rat of Steel

(BobsOldSocks)
"Sorry, but from my perspective the players in the NFL look like a bunch of big girl's blouses what with the layers of padding and the 'I'm a delicate flower, don't hurt me' crash helmets."

There's nothing I have to say about BobL's inanity that hasn't already been said, so I'll say this instead:

I don't know where in the world you call home, BobsOldSocks, but it always amuses me that so many Europeans deride the sport of American football, making jokes about the padding and helmets, when it seems to be the norm in their style of "futbol" for a player to fall down and writhe around screaming "Foul! Foul! Card him, Ref!" when an opposing player so much as breathes on him.

old comment by BobsOldSocks

@Rat of Steel

"I don't know where in the world you call home, BobsOldSocks..."

Scotland, Rat of Steel.

"...but it always amuses me..."

It does? You must be one happy chappy.

"...that so many Europeans deride the sport of American football.."

Therein lies the problem, it's not football.

"...making jokes about the padding and helmets, when it seems to be the norm in their style of "futbol"..."

Never heard of it.

"...for a player to fall down and writhe around screaming "Foul! Foul! Card him, Ref!" when an opposing player so much as breathes on him."

Oh, you mean football. Yeah, football players can be a bunch of fannies. Did you have a point to make?

old comment by John

Homophobe "logic":

a) Homosexuals are attracted to men.

b) Therefore, they must be like women in every way.

c) If they're like women, they can't like "manly" stuff like football.

d) Therefore, homosexuals can't play football.

Of course, the errors are in the false premises (b) and (c). Just because a man is attracted to other men doesn't mean he is female in every other respect. And just because a woman is unlikely to qualify for professional football doesn't mean a homosexual male couldn't. A homosexual male is still a male with the same male size, skeleton and muscle structure as other males. A gay man is as likely to be 6' 6", weigh 280 and kick your ass as any straight man.

old comment by aussie lad

NFL? NFL? are you serious? manly? pftt you know "real men" play rugby league they might not all be straight but at the very least they dont have padding and helmets like wussies they crash full on and its considered a badge of honor if you have a scar or you get seriously injured they even have full out brawls on occasion (althought they try to limit it so their stars can play next week) compared to league NFL is a GIRL game!! even the womens leauge are more tough than the NFL guys (btw i am in no way saying women are not as tough as men indeed i pity the guy who's dumb enough to disrespect the girls i know.... even if god were real he wouldn't be able to help the guy!)

old comment by Anon-e-moose

@Quantum Mechanic

"Football is a stupid waste of time engaged in by morons for the entertainment of idiots."

I'm surprised no-one's said it yet, so in b4 (emphasis added)...:

Rugby/American Football: (a) game(s) played by men with oddly shaped balls.

[/Finbarr Saunders]

BobsOldSocks, Rat of Steel, I'm looking at you. ~_^

To throw a spanner into the discussion works: Ireland's & Scotland's (respectively) Hurling & Shinty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling

'Forbes magazine described the media attention and population multiplication of Thurles town ahead of one of the game's annual provincial hurling finals as being "the rough equivalent of 30 million Americans watching a regional lacrosse game." In 1931, Time magazine suggested the sport of golf was "a form of hurling modified by a more cautious race". American soldiers have also expressed their love of the game's warrior ethos.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinty

'Billy Connolly suggested in September 2009 that shinty should become Scotland's national sport because the Scotland football team's performances had been so bad'

If you thought hockey (the non-ice kind) was lethal (even played by men, never mind women), these sports are like World War IV. The only ball sport deadlier is Jai-Alai.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_alai

'The sport can be dangerous, as the ball travels at high velocities. It has led to injuries that caused players to retire and fatalities have been recorded in some cases'

Consider yourselves lucky this is 21st Century USA/Europe/Australia/New Zealand/etc, and not, say, centuries ago, in Central America. The participants in the ancient Mayan Ball Game literally played for their lives - the losing team was sacrificed. The ball itself was made of latex - covering a human head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame

@Philbert McAdamia

"I, myself, am also a lover, a fighter, and a wild horse rider, O.V., pleezdameetcha.
Join me in a quiche?"

A bit of egg & bacon pie? Don't mind if I do! Any tea going? Two sugars for me, please.

(See, fundies? A straight man like me can eat quiche, and not get teh ghey!)

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