As if I needed another reason to love football...

Via Dean Barnett at Townhall, this Daily Kos diary:

Searching for masculine bliss incarnate?

Look no further than NFL football and its myriad machismo delights....

Fierce armor-clad gladiators applying wicked hits, battering each other relentlessly, engaging in bone-jarring collisions, and performing feats of near super-human athleticism....

Provocatively undressed cheerleaders manifesting our culture’s ideal of feminine perfection.....

Rivers of ice cold beer gushing forth to satiate our desire to numb the mind and lower inhibitions....

And lest we forget, the NFL provides us with "Man Law" to shield us from our long repressed anima, which is constantly poised to assail our grossly exaggerated masculinity ....

And he says all that like it's a bad thing.

Proving, however, that football is universal, the comments are full of dissent. For example, this comment, by Lightningman:

Or, for our international friends, "American Rules" football. It is the greatest sport yet invented. It combines deep strategy, enormous athleticism, lots of action, and complicated rules and statistics.

It is America's pastime--not baseball. Please, diarist, can't we have something that we don't have to feel guilty about? I mean, c'mon, give me a break, already.

A lot of plugging for people's favorite teams, too.