Trans icon and RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15 winner Sasha Colby is not one to be trifled with. She doesn’t suffer fools, and she calls it like she sees it. And the way she sees it, football is pretty darn gay.
We had an earlier encounter with a similar TikTok sound some time ago that first put us on to this important intel. While football is often considered extremely straight and hetero, it’s hard to square that with Colby’s recent TikTok, in which she reacts to football announcers talking about men coming all over each others’ faces. At least, that seems to be what they’re talking about.
Starting to come, pulling out, guys coming right in your face and just sitting there and delivering it…that’s football, alright! To the ininitiated, it might seem like these announcers are talking about…something else. Another arguable sport involving balls, sweaty men, and loads being given.
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Many a gay has had to put up with the sound of football making up the backing vocals of an otherwise lovely Thanksgiving. But this year, the discussion of men coming in each others’ faces had a much more ironic undertone. How is this country—a country that voted to elect horrible straight men to office to strip queer people of our rights—the same one that loves to celebrate cowboys who needed two thrusts to get it in? I don’t know. It’s a mystery!
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And suddenly we’re sports fans
In the comments, fans were just as baffled and amused as Colby. “My husband is an entire athlete and I still barely know what’s going on,” one user wrote, “but I do look up when I see halftime performances and stuff like this lol.”
“Perioddddd,” another poster wrote. “I might watch sports now too.”
Perhaps we should all be watching more sports? But maybe that’s an overcorrection. After all, what is Drag Race if not the gay version of football? Albeit with less loads and coming in peoples’ faces.
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