Rugby players from Wales are gay!

[Josquius]

The way it is with other Euro sports is, like American sports, they tend to be very localised and not spread much beyond one nation (or a handfull of them).
e.g. the Dutch are about the only people in the universe who love hockey, the Swedes and their neighbours to a lesser extent have bandy, the Austrians handball (IIRC).
Football though is the world unifier.
Rugby is a bit of a inbetweener.

[Brazen]

I'm trolling for Brazen's reaction.

Welshie said yesterday it was well known among Welsh rugby fans, who've all seen him regularly visiting Cardiff's gay clubs!

Rugby is very tolerant of homosexuals - after all, it's played in all the public schools and top Universities.

[Brazen]

Also, who's going to gay-bash a

6ft 3in, 16-stone rugby star

and his pals?

[Josquius]

I'm trolling for Brazen's reaction.

Welshie said yesterday it was well known among Welsh rugby fans, who've all seen him regularly visiting Cardiff's gay clubs!

Rugby is very tolerant of homosexuals - after all, it's played in all the public schools and top Universities.

And it involves a lot of handling other men's equipment anyway.

[Valmy]

And it involves a lot of handling other men's equipment anyway.

Yeah and dancing involves rubbing up against women yet supposedly gay men like doing that and straight men like grabbing each others junk playing sports.  It simply makes no sense.

[merithyn]

I've done the cockdipping thing, but it was strictly dip own privates in own beer which is then poured in own mouth.

As if this is somehow better?

[Sheilbh]

Yeah and dancing involves rubbing up against women yet supposedly gay men like doing that and straight men like grabbing each others junk playing sports.  It simply makes no sense.

In the case of rugby, not just while playing sports.

I agree with B though.  Rugby's a relatively homo-friendly sport.

[Viking]

I've done the cockdipping thing, but it was strictly dip own privates in own beer which is then poured in own mouth.

As if this is somehow better?

Yes, given the choice of your own balls or somebody else's? It's not really a hard choice for the average straight man.

[Viking]

And it involves a lot of handling other men's equipment anyway.

Yeah and dancing involves rubbing up against women yet supposedly gay men like doing that and straight men like grabbing each others junk playing sports.  It simply makes no sense.

This is not the same thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt9MuKZGOiA

look at where they put their hands and head, not to mention how inviting their rear ends might look to martinus and his ilk.

and technique wise, look at how level their bodies are when you get the side on view, this gives the greatest possible power.

[Valmy]

In the case of rugby, not just while playing sports.

I agree with B though.  Rugby's a relatively homo-friendly sport.

I was just saying that you cannot judge what people are going to be interested in simply based on the opportunity to have contact with their preferred sex.  'Oh well of course straight guys want to be fashion designers they get to hang out with female models all the time.'  It just doesn't work out that way.

If it is Homo friendly that probably has more to do with the culture of the sport than the opportunity to get off while playing.

[Sheilbh]

If it is Homo friendly that probably has more to do with the culture of the sport than the opportunity to get off while playing.

I wouldn't necessarily separate the two.  It did start in English public schools after all

[Valmy]

look at where they put their hands and head, not to mention how inviting their rear ends might look to martinus and his ilk.

Meh TES told me he loves football but gets mocked for it by other gay men as gay men are supposed to hate american football...despite the fact the Quarterback puts his hands right on the center's ass and everybody wears tight pants.

This logic is simply fail.  It strikes me as more about hetero fears of gay dudes feeling them up playing sports than anything to do with reality.

[Valmy]

I wouldn't necessarily separate the two.  It did start in English public schools after all

Dang well maybe English gays are simply cooler.  Getting my gay friends to play. or go to games, or even discuss sports seems to genuinely annoy them.  Even the women love sports more than they do.

I mean there is a reason Marty calls the Oscars the 'Gay Super Bowl' because, you know, gays are not supposed to like the Super Bowl.

[The Larch]

Having trained and sparred with the women's team of our rugby club back when I was an U-18, I must say that, in the heat of the moment, sexuality simply isn't much of an issue, even if you're tackling and being tackled by people with which you could be potentially sexually attracted.

[Admiral Yi]

I've played some pickup hoops with girls but I can't recall any that liked to mix it up in the paint, where you get your serious dry humping opportunities.