Nothing to organize protests over, but still showing of what so many straight guys think of gays. The Gay Bowl is an annual event held every Columbus Day Weekend and features 20 gay flag football teams from across the country. The Gay Bowl is also, apparently, an annual football game held every Thanksgiving in Eureka, Calif., between teams of straight guys dressed in pink and yellow. From their Facebook group:
This Thanksgiving break will be the third anual [sic] gay bowl. The bowl game is a dangerous battle of homosexual outfits and skin tight clothing. Team pink will try to avenge themselvs [sic] for the heartbreaking loss they suffered to team Yellow is [sic] last years [sic] battle. Little and tight clothing is highly encouraged and be prepared to pretty much just goof off and have fun. LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Ha ha! Isn’t that funny? ‘Straight’ guys dressing up in gay colors and playing football? Wearing “little and tight clothing?” OMG, Lol! What a great sense of humor these guys have, and how original!
Why straight guys feel the need to toss around the term “gay” all the time is beyond my understanding of human psychology.
on Apr 13th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
So, when young straight men want to have fun, they go gay? Okay by me. I think these are the guys who come out or are allies by the time they hit 35.
SW
on Apr 14th, 2009 at 4:41 am
The irony is, you couldn’t swing a dead cat through Outsports without hitting several dozen gay guys who could out-bench-press these smarmy little preppies by at least a hundred pounds.
Let these fratboys be stupid; the relevance of their whole character type is fading FAST.
on Apr 17th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
This is pathetic.
Next thing you know they’ll be having sex with each other and saying, “It’s okay! It’s part of the gay bowl. Good thing we’re straight.”
Dumb asses!
on Oct 10th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5162183&l=a038e3d712&id=824805715
^^ Team Pink in action
on Oct 10th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I find it interesting that it’s okay for you to use the term gay and not allow others to use it. You’re promoting the Gay Bowl and yet pick out these guys for doing something similar. It doesn’t make them justified but it kind of makes you look rather hypocritical.
Do as I say not as I do.
on Oct 10th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
My name is Jesse and I too am an original member of the aforementioned “gay bowl”. I find this article to be poorly written due to the fact that the writer obtained all their information from facebook and myspace. Not only is it unfair to judge someone based completely on a publicly accessed internet site, but you cannot possibly get a clear picture of someone, or in this case, something without doing proper research. How is it fair to write these kinds of things without having any idea of how or why this event was organized. Why don’t you fight a real cause? I know I can speak for everyone involved when I say that none of us did this with the intention of offending anyone. If you want to make a difference, why don’t you stop wasting your time degrading Christians, and find people who actually are trying to hurt people. This article just shows how naive you are to the fight for equality.
on Oct 11th, 2009 at 2:31 am
What is Publication of Private Facts (California)?
Elements of a Private Facts Claim
In California, the elements of a publications of private facts claim are: (1) public disclosure; (2) of a private fact; (3) which would be offensive and objectionable to the reasonable person; and (4) which is not of legitimate public concern.
What is Libel?
Libel and slander are legal claims for false statements of fact about a person that are printed, broadcast, spoken or otherwise communicated to others. Libel generally refers to statements or visual depictions in written or other permanent form, while slander refers to verbal statements and gestures. The term defamation is often used to encompass both libel and slander.
For your own behalf, I would be careful what you decide to post on the internet. Look up the rest of the article’s to inform yourself…so you don’t make the same mistake twice.
http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/publication-private-facts-california
http://www.medialaw.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Public_Resources/Libel_FAQs/Libel_FAQs.htm#What%20is%20Libel?
on Oct 11th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I would also like to point out that if you click on the Eureka, Calif. hyperlink in the article it takes you to the website for Eureka High in Montana, NOT Eureka High in California where these guys are from.
Nothing like good old fashion investigative journalism…
on Oct 12th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Here we go again. Thank you Cyd4Prez as you make my point even louder as you fail to make your point without the use of insults. As you can see I have used no insult in order to make my point about the article while you have to use insult in order to make yourself feel better (this is just speculation just my best guess as to why you must call us non-athletic cheerleaders). I was never a cheerleader I’m sorry if that disappoints you. You may be right about the non-athletic thing tho. But I try my best. I love competition tho and have never been one to back down from a challenge. You know when and where we play we would love to have you. You might find us better people than you think.
on Oct 12th, 2009 at 4:25 am
Here’s my veiw. I won’t explain why my opinion matters because …well it won’t matter. I am a “non-athletic cheerleader” type . I have never and probably never will play in the Gay bowl. I do however, have many very close friends who do. I have had the pleasure of watching several of these games and ones similar to it. I enjoy them. All the points here are very valid. But, let’s be honest, the gay bowl is not a game of gays vs. straights. There are no intentions of challenging or questioning the athleticism of homosexuals. So stop acting like this a custom made personal attack on you! It is not and never has been about being gay or not, and sure as hell has nothing to do with anyone who wasn’t friends with this particular group of folks. I have no qualms with homosexuals. Elton John?…love him. Ryan Seacrest too. They give me piece of mind daily. And I have to agree with Counter Culture on bringing up the “ad-hominem.” In any verbal altercation is it really necessary to go beyond the debate and attack your opponent personally? Keeping in mind that I do not have any issues with gays and lesbians, I will say that if this were my first immersion into this topic, I would not be feeling very sympathetic towards gay people simply due to the fact that they cannot seem to engage in a debate without attacking people and insulting their choice of lifestyle(very hypocritical I think). The funny thing is that this is a result of some hyper-sensitivity on the part of the instigator. It has already been mentioned every other post, that this is not and was never intended to offend anyone, and furthermore is not anyone’s fucking business. It is a very personal local, home-grown sporting event involving 30 or so long time high-school friends. Some guys like vag, some like Dick…most like football. And (while we’re being honest as I’m sure we all are) I think you guys should try an organized football game called ” the straight bowl”… wow no wonder we didn’t call it that. it sounds re-fucking-diculous. Still, if you did, I doubt anyone would stop you, or start a whiny, bleeding heart blog about hurt feelings, nor would we(specifically this group of friends) mock your lifestyle and make you feel outlandish for believing what you do. I’m sorry that not everyone can say that. I understand that in the past present and probably in the future there has and will be tension all along this subject. I am sorry for the pain that has been laid on you simply because you feel differently about men and women than most people do. I do not think it’s okay by any means, which is why I think it’s a very counter-productive move to attack people for something they have made clear, was not intended as any kind of hurt or insult. Maybe during the wee hours of this night we all could grow up, accept each others differences(which means acknowledging that to some, we are the ones who are different) and move along with our lives. I prefer the touch of a woman myself(seldom as that happens) but I would not ever turn down a good game of beach football because of someones sexual orientation…it would be because I would be crushed due to my altogether flimsy physique! I would not refuse a homosexual a hand shake or a good talk or a cup of coffee either. SO having said all that, I’m finished!…now what am I going to do?….I’m going to Disneyland
! peace and love all!
on Oct 12th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Hey Cyd4Prez, that “stick” is him eating a french fry you overly-sensitive douche. Gay or not you need to be able to laugh at yourself a little bit. These guys know how to do that and I suggest you try and learn the same. Sorry you feel outcasted, really that is not fair. However, the only person making you feel bad is yourself. How about you spend your time improving your own quality of life rather than wasting your insecure energy making enemies. Stop snooping around the internet for pictures you can get offended by and try smiling once in a while.
PS- You’re an annoying douch
on Oct 12th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
All of you who suddenly have come crawling out of the woodwork SIX MONTHS after this was originally posted: you’re all full of shit. Go away. No one’s buying what you’re selling.
on Oct 12th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I do not speak for all heterosexuals, nor do I claim to, but maybe I can help explain some things to you about the elusive heterosexual mind. In regards to your statement “Why straight guys feel the need to toss around the term “gay” all the time is beyond my understanding of human psychology.” This is a very honest statement and probably accurate. This is probably because your understanding of human psychology is based in the homosexual mind, a mind that that less than 7% of the population possesses. You can’t know ‘why’ unless you are privy to the heterosexual mind or someone has explained it to you.
First of all heterosexual males, all 93% of us, find humor in some universal things. These are: Anything related to
A)farts/stool/body parts and B)homosexuals is automatically funny. Why? I can’t explain A) but B)is completely logical. If A) is funny and B) is made up of all the funniest parts of A (body parts, stool, etc.) then it follows that B) is also funny. Could a homosexual be offended by this? Obviously. But so could anyone with a vagina when heterosexuals (and maybe homosexuals?) call eachother vaginas.
This takes me to my second important point-Heterosexual males call eachother names all of the time. This is seen as a term of endearment. Here are some examples: douche bag, butthole, ass lick, dingleberry, slapdick, fart knocker, queef, etc. This is what FRIENDS call eachother on a daily basis. Taken out of context millions of douche bags could be offended daily, not to mention 5 billion buttholes across the globe.
Obviously these are not funny to you but then again they weren’t meant for you. If they had been meant for you they would have been sent to you, mailed to you, or placed on a billboard for you to see. If you are looking for ways to be offended then you are living on the wrong planet. If men dressing up in pink offends you or seems to be stereotypical, go to the Gay Rights parade in San Francisco and let every person who walks by in stereotypical homosexual garb know that you are offended by their dress, actions, flamboyancy, whatever.
There are too many problems in this world to go searching for them on the internet. Don’t look for problems, let them find you on their own. I promise they will. Toughen up, grow an extra layer of skin, relax. It’s going to be ok. Really.
on Oct 12th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
joe, just to let you know a little bit of why we all of a sudden showed up on this website. well to make it easy to understand, none of us knew there was an article written about us. also none of us thought there would be an article written about us. i’m sorry if it offends you that we found this article six months later. i can’t speak for the others but this is the first time i’ve heard of outsports, so sorry that i hadn’t been around here before. that is fine if you don’t believe any of us, because truthfully i really don’t care if you do or don’t believe us. i’m not trying to be rude, but to me this isn’t even an issue and that’s really why i don’t care about your opinion on it. i would love for you to try sometime to not believe everything you see on the internet or in other types of media. sometimes the shit out there is crazy. just about every week when i go to the local grocery store i see a magazine that says something about someone seeing an alien or something about lindsay lohan possibly being pregnant or something such as that. it is crazy that people believe everything they see. i usually try to believe the things that i actually have facts about. i have facts about the game and how none of us are trying to offend anyone. other than that i feel like i have wasted too much time of my day to reply to your closed minded comment. i apologize to anyone who is hurt by our “gay bowl.” have a wonderful day.
one last thing for cyd4prez, none of us really care who wins the game. it isn’t a game where it is like wow we are better than the other team or anything, it is more of just us having fun and being able to hang out with the friends that we don’t always see all the time.
once again, sorry to anyone who was offended by any of this, but holy shit don’t believe everything you see.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 12:43 am
This is from the Facebook page:
“The bowl game is a dangerous battle of homosexual outfits and skin tight clothing.”
Nah, these guys aren’t making fun of gay people.
I have an idea — let’s play the Ghetto Bowl and we all can wear Afros and gold chains and eat fried chicken and watermelon, but not in a racist way.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Hey Joe Guckin, you wrote “Go away. No one’s buying what you’re selling.” Let me fill you in on somthing bud, we did not try to seel anything. This Cyd guy searched the internet and found information on us and posted it without any of our permission. We did not create it for you, it was a private group that Cyd felt he needed to investigate. He found us, if he’s going to call people out he has never met and never had the permission to call out, you can bet there is going to be backlash. If I created a blog with pictures of your friend personal information I am sure you wouldn’t be too happy either would you?
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 1:08 am
In response to “dear joe guckin”
You said:
“one last thing for cyd4prez, none of us really care who wins the game. it isn’t a game where it is like wow we are better than the other team or anything, it is more of just us having fun and being able to hang out with the friends that we don’t always see all the time.”
That is not really true… If team pink doesn’t win this year I will be devastated.
And @ Jim Buzinski. I think your Ghetto Bowl idea might actually have something to it. I’m going to start planning one for the first weekend in February (Black History Month)
Bring your Grits and Cornbread!
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 1:18 am
If anyone would like to write a column on why the event is called Gay Bowl and how it’s not intended to be homophobic, we will happily run it unedited.
And thanks for the correction about the link.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I would like to write a column on freedom of speech and why heterophobic, militant homosexuals should mind their own business, search their own websites, and read their own articles if they can’t handle someone who is not of their orientation using the word ‘Gay’. Grow a pair. “Boohoo some straight guys are making fun of our sexual orientation and how we dress when we are in parades. I’m going to plaster their name all over the internet and get all my friends to read about how dumb they are. And then I’ll go tell my Mommy on them.”
Homophobic? Unless my internal dictionary serves me incorrectly Homophobia is fear of homosexuals. Again I speak only for myself here, but I don’t fear homosexuals. I just think they are funny, period. It’s fun to dress up like things you think are funny. Go to West Hollywood and see how many people dress up on Halloween. Heck, you dress up like heterosexuals sometimes and you don’t hear us crying about it. Is your Gay Bowl homophobic? A bunch of men playing football and it’s called the GAY Bowl. Do homosexuals have a patent on the word ‘Gay’? Ok fine, then we get the word weiner. Are you heterophobic? Are you afraid of men who like women? Do dark blue shirts and poor decorating skills scare you? Do you fear men who don’t know what color mauve is? Or is it just that heterosexuals are different then you and maybe you find that funny too? Hmm. Well Cyd, I’m not pickin up what you are putting down.
Oh, and if you are ever confronted for meddling in someone elses business, cyber stalking if you will, it won’t be because you are homosexual, it will be because you chose to mess with a member of my family. And that my friend is indefensible.
Good day to you.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Thanks, Sam, spoken like a true bigot. You should join Fred Phelps’ group.
As for the ridiculous claim that we violated this group’s privacy: This information was found through a simply Internet search and was available to any of the 6 billion residents of Earth with a web browser.
There is zero claim to privacy and we did not need anyone’s “permission” to run it. The same holds true for anything ever published on Outsports or any other website, so you all need to quit whining and stop trying to act like you’re the victim.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
As you may have realized yesterday was in fact Columbus day, but did we play our game?…no. I refused. Ive been so appalled with the finger pointing and name calling here. Children making their names “Cyd4Prez is an idiot” and such. Thinking matters such as this are comedic relief from their 9 to 5 jobs flipping burgers at McDonalds, and as for Mr. Buzinski, well, you speak as a supporter, however putting down African Americans such as myself to make your point? Really? If I know one thing, two wrongs do not make a right, making someone lower than yourself rather than standing tall…? need I say more…?
But might I point out that I myself tossed the term “gay” around in my younger years, I too had girlfriends, to block myself from the fact that some day I would ‘come out’ and learn to accept myself. Maybe some day these guys will build the courage and do the same. Not attacking, but maybe something more serious lies under the surface.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
“Mr. Buzinski, well, you speak as a supporter, however putting down African Americans such as myself to make your point? Really? If I know one thing, two wrongs do not make a right, making someone lower than yourself rather than standing tall…? need I say more…?”
I was being sarcastic, linking what the Gay Bowl people were doing with someone trying to do the same thing to mock African Americans (or Latinos or Jews etc.). I was not literally suggesting I was going to hold a Ghetto Bowl.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Something tells me that these sweet and compassionate,wholesome and innocent Christian Boys
would really get upset if started a different kind of Local-Tradition Football Game.
We can also make two teams.
One team will dress up in Flowing Gowns with Big Funny Hats and Big Crosses and Sandals (Priests or Ministers) vs. Christian Little Alter Boys with their clothes half off on the other side!
Don’t worry, we only will invite our friends to watch ’since it was our own little way of keeping in touch with each other’???
Would that also be OK with all of you??
It’s not making fun of the Mentally Retarded who think Jesus is going to come back or the World will End on May 21, 2011.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I’d much rather see the comments on here be more constructive and have less name-calling. I didn’t call anyone names in the original post. I don’t know what’s in the heart of the people who organize the game. I wrote what I saw and my reaction to what I saw and that’s it. It sucks that many of the straight guys on here think gay=pink; at the real Gay Bowl this past weekend there were 300 gay guys smashing the hell out of each other, making elite-level football plays…but no pink.
So if you want to comment on here about the issue, please do. But please leave the namecalling and the childishness out of it. How straight men perceive gay men, and how gay men perceive straight men, is a great conversation that gets undermined by pettiness.
Of course, we could settle this all on the field. The NoCal straight guys vs. the SoCal gay guys. And we all go out and get beers and martinis after. That’d be more like it!!
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Don’t be so sensitive. This isn’t saying “gay” as in “wrong” or “bad”, but “gay” as in showing off their bodies to other men who will be touching them. It seems like they want to dress like Richard Simmons and play football. If that’s their idea of fun, that’s fine with me.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Much ado about nothing….seriously…..give it rest everybody….it’s a bunch of guys playing a silly football game. Wheeee…..
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
On this topic, I would like to congratulate the LA Motion on the Gay Bowl 9 championship. The championship game was the most exciting game I have ever seen in this tournament which I have been associated with since number 3 in Boston. The level of player we now have and the combination of gay, straight, male and female have made this tournament a true success. I look forward each year to not only the games, but also renewing friendships and experiencing new places.
I can see most points of view on this but in the end we must all live our lives in understanding and true respect of each other. That must be true in the spoken and written word.
on Oct 13th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I remember in 1987going out to a redneck suburb with a brave and foolish bunch of gay football buffs calling ourselves the LARagers to play a local team of former high school jocksin a local league. We had no offense,although our derense held. The refs were local and not our friends. I got viciously clipped three plays in a row, and I am no wuss.They shook our hands and made tolerant noisesafterwards, but we knew we ranked in the lower orders of humanity. Thank god we did not beat them!!
on Oct 14th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Just out of curiosity, aren’t there people who actually hate gays? People who actually take time out of their day to make sure homosexuals know that they are beneath everybody else on the face of the earth? Maybe these guys who play this game are the last people you should be attacking in battle. They don’t seem to hate you, they actually seem to have no problem with gays. Why don’t you take your oversensitive selves out of your shade drawn room where you have been crying yourself to sleep every night on this article, and go out and fight for you equality. You can sit here and bitch as much as you want but these guys will still play their game and you will still be offended.
on Oct 14th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
“Just out of curiosity, aren’t there people who actually hate gays?”
Yes, and some of them started replying on this post in the last couple of days.
Again, you are wasting your time. No one’s buying your excuses. No one’s buying your lies about not being homophobic. No one is buying it. Nothing you can say or do will make anyone with a working brain believe you.
on Oct 14th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Joseph, you and Jimbo need to stop using rhetorical quotes to make your unreasonable points. I actually sought out the guys who this article is about and we discussed what was actually going on. They were some young handsome men that seemed to be pretty good guys. We had a good talk and they explained to me how they actually stood on the situation, and we had a real connection.
And is anyone actually selling anything? I dont know what you arnt buying. If you want to buy something, try ebay, or overstock.com im sure theres some good deals around now.
on Oct 15th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Cyd4Prez you didn’t connect with anyone…you criticized us and made remarks we couldn’t believe. You made assumptions and you came up with your own conclusions in your head. You have a much different view of “real connection” and “good talk”. Last I knew about you were making false assumptions about the pictures and claiming we appauled you so much you couldn’t play in this years game. Forgive me if I’m missing somthing but that doesn’t add up.
on Oct 16th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
OMG, straight guys making fun of gay guys, I better blog about it. A little sensitive, aren’t we, Cyd? Find some other way to further your cause than to drag some upstanding, fun-loving young man you’ve never met through the mud in this public forum. If that’s the only way you can get people to listen to you, sensible people who can think for themselves will see right through it and pay no attention to you. Thanks for wasting everyone’s time on this. I can’t believe I wasted two minutes of my life reading your blog and writing this comment.
on Oct 17th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Hello Cyd, great to hear what you have been spending your free time doing….Bashing a very important man of mine that YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT besides a picture and started running your mouth again and again about his shirts and the way he holds a french fry. You must feel great about yourself when you go to sleep at night. I know I would