The college football season kicked off this weekend. Personally I’ve always been surprised Prince isn’t more of a college football fan. Sweaty, muscular young men bending over, running around, wrestling each other to the ground, and then patting each other on the ass seem just like his kind of thing. Okay, I’ll grant you that they wear so much padding and equipment that really the only part of their bodies that remains discernible is their ass.... Yeah, I still don’t see why Prince isn’t more into it.Maybe it’s the lack of Asian-American players. Of the roughly 15,000 college football players, a quick Googling revealed just two Asians. Both of them play for the Virginia Tech Hokies: Ed Wang and his brother David. But who could forget the great Timmy Chang (pictured), former record setting quarterback for the University of Hawaii? Sure, U of H’s head coach got in trouble recently for using the word “faggot” in an interview, but a team that played with a giant pride rainbow on their helmets until 1999 would have to be appeal to Prince on some level.
Certainly it’s not the lack of gay players. ESPN the Magazine conducted a poll of college football players this summer and just under 50% said they had at least one gay teammate. In fact 70% of PAC-10 players said they had a gay teammate. The PAC-10 would be the teams out here on the west coast, so if Prince went to see a game at his new employer, USC, he just might meet a strapping young gay athlete eager to put on a Trojan uniform and play ball.
[Alan Goy also blogs at Experiment Farm.]
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