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That (original post) picture is too good to be true.

― Hemoglobin Hummingbird (HemoHum), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

http://paulkatcher.com/images/bill_parcells.jpg

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

You know, sports seems to be the only field where "tough" men can exhibit physical signs of affection towards each other without being labeled gay, so do you have to ruin that too? Two guys hugging does not a gay make.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link

SMELLS LIKE FISH

http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~hiroshin/pictures/japan/kamogawa_sea_world/kamogawa_sea_world10.jpg

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Two guys hugging does not a gay make.

It might an unintentionally homoerotic picture make, though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 06:25 (eighteen years ago) link

And anyway, that first picture has THREE guys hugging.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Is a pic of two guys hugging necessarily homoerotic? Is physical warmth between guys always erotic, thogh maybe only unintentionally? I'd like to think not.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not the hugging: it's the O faces.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, not all of the guys on this thread are showing that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Besides, if you'd just scored a goal or something, you'd be showing those kinda faces too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, but that's the point: when seen out of context (i.e. if you forget that this is merely same-gender goal-related celebratory huggery) these images look amusing.

Now stop reading "unintentionally homoerotic imagery" as "pictures of homosexuals" because that's not the point.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Joking, Tuomas, joking. Serious answer: the humour lies in the cognitive dissonance between the traditionally macho (homophobic) attitudes of professional athletes and the unintentionally sexualised content of the pictures. Also: arse-grabbing.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Man, I sound angry. I'm not, you know. I'm just sayin' that there's no need to turn this into an issue that isn't one or be offended by something that isn't there.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:45 (eighteen years ago) link

The football one up there is like a giant Katamari!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, but that's the point: when seen out of context (i.e. if you forget that this is merely same-gender goal-related celebratory huggery) these images look amusing.

Well, no one said anything about "out of context". It's quite clear from almost all these pics what the context is.

I'm only being half-serious here, obviously this is a fun thread and I don't want to spoil it. But I do think it's worth giving a thought why guys can't show affection towards each other, even as a part of a sports game, without it being "unintentionally homoerotic".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

What is needed here is the distinction between the homosocial and the homosexual- Eve kosofsky Sedgwick defined the homosocial as the "affective glue" that bonds together contexts of same-sex intimacy which are understood to be non-sexual . . . it's a useful notion and helps explain locker rooms, golf clubs, sports bro behaviour in relation to the simultaneously homophobic party line *and* homoerotic charge that is often going on in such contexts.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Would you believe I can't find this picture without the handbags anymore?

http://www.sfsra.org/images/gallery_argentina.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Tuomas, any male/male (or female/female) intimacy can of course be viewed as homoerotic if the viewer wants to view it that way (and even full-on buttfuckery can be seen as "simply homosocial" if the viewer is in complete denial). But you're describing this as if we're ruining something by declaring it homoerotic -- "why can't they do this without this terrible label being thrust upon them".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I love that last one. What is going on there, really? Is someone taking a penalty kick from extremely close? Even so...

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/spo/med/2005/10/ipt/1129565100.jpg

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/Rooney-Scores.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20051210/capt.cxa11212100435.lakers_bulls_cxa112.jpg

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG RONALDO. HAHAHAHAHA

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

this is the best thread on ilx

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i love how epic disappointment writ in the bodies of the players is some kind of staple of futbol on every narrow miss. baseball and basketball and u.s. football guys are more demonstrative than they used to be, but disappointment is weathered either with passive stoicism or by throwing a chair across the dugout.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

it has not been so long, in the evolution of american sports, since so much was made of joe dimaggio, late in a world series game his team was losing, kicking at the dirt in disappointment as he followed a george stirnweiss walk and a yogi berra single with what seemed a sure extra-base hit that was snatched out of the sky by, google tells me, dodgers reserve outfielder al gionfriddo (who had been put in expressly to handle whatever dimaggio could hit at him)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.powerplaysportscards.com/photos/gionb.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

http://tinypic.com/ih387l.jpg

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/upload/whitesox-thumb.jpg

― IN UR BASE KILLING ALL UR DUDES (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41132000/jpg/_41132246_utdceleb270.jpg

― Ranking Rupert (Ranking Rupert), Saturday, 17 December 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.tennnis.com/pix_mauresmo/oncourt_2003/FedCup_Final_2003/t,i48.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 17 December 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

the soccer rimjob one is hi-larious

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 18 December 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link

The Ronaldo one looks photoshopped.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 18 December 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/1/d/1d5664be18675f9f34e89605a5ac1db9.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 December 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Now you mention it, the Ronaldo one is obviously photoshopped.

― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 December 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Now you mention it, the Ronaldo one is obviously photoshopped.

Huh. So it is.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 18 December 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Dom wins.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 18 December 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

i think someone gave me a "good game" last night at the kid 606 show

― howell huser (chaki), Sunday, 18 December 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

The photoshopped one is what made me realize how much of the funny here is in how the camera angles and the exact second of photography wind up making it all look like something else, like way beyond what's actually going on; probably if you watched the stuff in real time, from different angles, it would seem totally normal. (And probably if you photographed the hell out of some other activity you'd get some of the same stuff.)

That wrestling pic is still gold, though. And I have to say, a lot of those baseball players are giving one another some super-intense looks, like the kind of deep intimate looks that in normal life really usually are followed by making out.

― nabiscothingy, Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://espn.go.com/media/nba/2006/0125/photo/a_james_395.jpg

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

since it's not showing up on this thread anymore...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/images/headlines/031105/031105mickelson_512.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Viz's Up The Arse Corner to thread.

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.gregorymancuso.com/portfolioimages/editorial/Peyton%20Manning%20Eli%20Manning%20Archie%20Manning%20nfl%20football-500.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Suddenly I really wish there were summer olympics replays for volleyball. THose were golden days.

― Mr. Latham Green (hanle y 3000), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

http://espn-att.starwave.com/photo/2006/0505/nba_a_lebron_412.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, sports seems to be the only field where "tough" men can exhibit physical signs of affection towards each other without being labeled gay, so do you have to ruin that too? Two guys hugging does not a gay make.

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), June 29th, 2005 12:31 AM. (Tuomas)

Tuomas'"humorless european" shtick has been going on for this long? WHY DOES FINLAND HAVE A INTERNET, THEY OBVIOUSLY SUCK AT IT.

― Unlimited Toothpicker (eman), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Here I was thinking that Tuomas "Milkshake" represented the proof of my theory that Europeans are only about "being comfortable with their bodies."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/fifa/gen/xp/20060615/i/3525593856.jpg

― bijoux (bijoux), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/fifa/gen/xp/20060615/i/3074070158.jpg

― bijoux (bijoux), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.salemhs.vbschools.com/images/wrestling.jpg

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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