I heard him speak while I was an undergrad at Penn State about his football as a homoerotic rite theory (having read the paper in my sociology class). In the audience were many members of the Penn State football team, many of whom had blood in their eyes as Dundes went on equating football slang with gay sex. The article in Time resulted in Dundes getting death threats. Dundes quotes Dave Kopay (the first openly gay NFL player), who wrote this in his book, " The David Kopay Story." Dundes' paper is a rollicking look at how closely football and its language and goals mirrors sex. The whole language of football is involved in sexual allusions. We were told to go out and "fuck those guys" to take that ball and stick it up their asses"or "down their throats."The coaches would yell,"knock their dicks off," or more often than that,"knock their jocks off." They'd say,"Go out there and give it all you've got,a hundred and ten percent, shoot your wad.
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