The Playboy Forum
May, 1979
Erotic RitualAs a 215-pound former college linebacker, I was relieved to read that someone has finally blown the proverbial whistle on us husky, bruising footballers and exposed us as the sissy fanny patters that we really are. Anthropologist Alan Dundes of the University of California at Berkeley revealed in his recent study that "the unequivocal sexual symbolism of the game" makes it obvious that football is the greatest homosexual ceremony since Oscar Wilde invented the circle jerk....