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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Boys and Their Balls - Part 25

 Football

Today's subject is American professional football players.

We'll start with the vintage photo above, taken in the Green Bay Packers locker room in 1962 by LIFE photographer George Silk.  The player is probably Ron Kramer.  Players didn't worry about photographers in the locker room, because there was a gentleman's agreement that frontal nudity would not be published.  Of course, they didn't know that the LIFE photo archive, including those unpublished photos, would someday become available on the Internet.

Jim Brown played for the Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965 and is considered one of the greatest running backs of all time.  He got naked for this Cosmopolitan centerfold in February, 1974.

Apparently he liked the publicity, because he then posed frontally nude for Playgirl in September, 1974.

Speaking of the Cleveland Browns, in January of this year, Browns player Malik McDowell showed up walking around stark naked outside a preschool center in Deerfield Beach, Florida (above).  Police were called.  McDowell body-slammed a policeman, ran off, and was captured and arrested.  His lawyer said somebody must have slipped him some drug.  When his contract came up in March, the Cleveland Browns did not renew it, and he is now a free agent.

Of course the ESPN Body Issue has featured many football players, though never frontally exposed.  Here are the offensive linemen of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2019.

During that ESPN photo shoot, they provided some food for the players.  Here's Jason Kelce discarding his towel and grabbing a snack.  Hey, big guys gotta eat!

This is Chicago Bears player Jay Cutler on vacation in a photo posted by his wife in 2017.

And here's his teammate Connor Barth.

Here's another Chicago Bears player, Kyle Long.  He was in the background of a locker room interview of another player.  Someone cropped the original video to zoom in on Kyle, so it's not the highest quality, but that's him.

We'll end today with another locker room video clip showing something in the background.  This is the Dallas Cowboys locker room.  Well, if you do interviews in a men's locker room, you've got to expect there are going to be naked men there.

I have more football photos and video clips, so stay tuned.

7 comments:

Big Dude said...

Why the fuck are women allowed into men's locker rooms? Men are not allowed into women's.

SickoRicko said...

That last video was great!

Anonymous said...

It's an old convention. We allow them in the men's room because we're done more quickly and we have less reason to fear them (Statistically, men are far more likely to be violent criminals, and the only paraphilia, i.e. a sexual disorder which by its very nature requires the sex be non-consenting to satisfy the patient, the only paraphilia associated with women is masochism.), so it just became women are allowed everywhere men are naked but not the other way around.

Anonymous said...

Looks as though Ron Kramer is able to supply his own (magnificent) balls.

Unashamed Male said...

In the "good old days," all sports reporters were men, and they were allowed in men's locker rooms but not women's. In the 1970s, after a lawsuit, a court ruled that women reporters had to be given equal rights (i.e. the right to interview players in the locker room). There were two ways to comply with this ruling. Men's teams, which had always allowed reporters in the locker room, now allowed women reporters. Women's teams, which had never allowed reporters in the locker room, continued to not allow either male or female reporters. Both solutions are perfectly legal. However, the result is certainly a double standard.

I wrote a whole post on this subject, which you can see here: https://unashamedmale.blogspot.com/2021/10/blog-post_28.html

Gerald said...

That last video was really good. I loved seeing that penis flopping around in the background.

Anonymous said...

I love locker room experience so unashamed men
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