How to Save the NBA
I saw this feature on MSN this morning:
Wanna fix the NBA playoffs? Here's how to do it in three simple words: tight tops, short shorts.
Show us some skin, boys. What's good for the goose, right? I mean, these days you might as well be playing in bloomers and petticoats.
Remember how it used to be:
What happened in the last sixty years to make men more modest? Why so demure these days?
Look, I don't even like basketball. I'm into low-scoring sports nowadays. But I would give a week—no, two weeks' pay to see Kobe Bryant bouncing around in something like that.
Old school beats new school hands down here:
That was then. This is now:
I mean, is it even a question?
I'm with you on this one. And I don't like basketball either.
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My bf Ken and I were talking about this the other day, actually. Guys of previous generations didn't really consider the possibility that their male teammates and fans might be attracted to them, so what they wore had more to do with aerodynamics then with immodesty.
A few generations and a gay movement or two later, sports franchises are way more conservative about sexualizing their product. Its kind of a male burka to keep gay men watching swim meets for any kind of flesh. Though after many years of intense study watching TV for any sports with bulges, I've noticed close-up shots are quickly cropped from the waist up. You can imagine the memo from standards reading 'keep it un-gay'. Puritans.
P.S. Love the blog and thanks for the props on your subsequent post, though that letter was co-written by Ken. He's just kinda shy.
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