We find it's surprising that somebody would look at the game of football, with its helmet hits and torn ligaments, and say that the orientation of players poses a threat to anybody. For the typical person who's more a fan of civil rights than the game of football, it's much more disturbing to watch men pile on top of a quarterback, or to see a player's unconscious body being hauled off the gridiron on a stretcher.
And, frankly, the game is just chock-full of simmering homoeroticism. When you see two guys double-teaming a tight end during a deep penetration, or a split end suffering through a painful elimination, or just all that dogging putting the defense in positions they don't usually find themselves in, it makes an old-fashioned butt-pat look demure.
