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The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV
Hugh Pickens writes "As sports nerds settle in today after Thanksgiving dinner for NFL and college football Reed Albergotti writes that there is some footage you will never see as he argues that the most-watched game in the US is probably the least understood. During every NFL game there are cameras hovering over the field, lashed to the goalposts and pointed at the coaches, but you will never see a shot of the entire field and what all 22 players do on every play which is considered proprietary information available only to teams and coaches. For decades, NFL TV broadcasts have relied most heavily on one view: the shot from a sideline camera that follows the progress of the ball. Anyone who wants to analyze the game, however, prefers to see the pulled-back camera angle known as the "All 22." While this shot makes the players look like stick figures, it allows students of the game to see things that are invisible to TV watchers: like what routes the receivers ran, how the defense aligned itself and who made blocks past the line of scrimmage and gives fans a 'bird's eye view' of the game to dissect team strategies, performances, and keys to success. Without the expanded frame, fans often have no idea why many plays turn out the way they do, or if the TV analysts are giving them correct information."
Most American football fans don't watch for the "sport" itself. It's mostly a cover, or a deception. Many of these fans are closeted homosexuals, but are conflicted because they often grew up in extremely religious and homophobic households. Football is touted as the "manliest" of sports, so they play it and worship it in some twisted attempt to crush and obscure the raging penis lust that consumes them.
However, anyone who has watched the game knows that it's blatantly homosexual. Much of it involves men in tight pants kneeling in front of one another, asses in the air. Then they run directly into each other, touching all the way. A small number of the players will be ball handlers (the football perhaps representing a scrotum), and a small number of players on the opposing team will try to grab them and pull them to the ground. The rest are just fat men who run into one another and proceed to grope and touch their opponent.
That's just what happens on the field. Before and after the game they get naked in the locker room, and shower with one another. Who knows what sort of shenanigans might go on during this time! There is a whole lot of penis, and no pussy, so it's hard to consider it a "straight" activity.
(I'm a woman, by the way. The football jocks never picked on me, so I really have nothing against them. I just think they should come out of the closet and be open about their true sexual preference.)