Alert reader David points out the brief nudity that appears in the first 10 seconds of the clip in the lower left. He also guesses at who the player is and pegs either Ben Howell or Jeremy Pruitt. Check it out before ESPN yanks or edits the video:

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ESPN’s BCS title game Monday drew a 13.8 overnight rating — the lowest rating in the BCS system’s 14-year history.

Alabama beat LSU, 21-0, and can claim the BCS title but can’t call themselves the undisputed national champs. Not when you have other one-loss teams like LSU, Oklahoma State, Boise State and Houston. Bama got a pass into the game — it didn’t play in its conference title game — and last night’s win simply means they split the season series with LSU. The game was a joke, as is the BCS, and the fact that it was a ratings dud compared to other past games might be one of the things that moves us closer to a true playoff.

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The readers obviously did that. In response, site owner Chris Ivey immediately removed the site, explained he didn’t mean to be homophobic, and apologized. He wrote on Unicorn Booty’s site:

I came across your website about the shirts. I must admit that I did not think of the fact that these shirts could offend homosexuals. Rather, they were aimed towards LSU fans as a joke leading up to the big game. Seeing now the reaction has opened my eyes to the hurtful nature that this shirt presents towards certain people, and because of this I have taken the site down. I have members of my family who are gay, and in no way do I view homosexual in a negative light as someone’s personal opinion is their own. This was a misguided joke and the site will cease to exist.

I now see the negativity these shirts produced towards homosexuals, and not a joke towards LSU fans. My sincere apologies are to anyone who was offended.

How did the readers respond when he removed the site like they asked, discontinued the T-shirt and apologized sincerely? They attacked him, of course. Why are so many gay people so unforgiving? The guy couldn’t have done more to express his regret. Man, we gotta grow up.

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One reason to watch -- Bama kicker Cade Foster

The college football season reaches its anti-climatic climax Monday night when LSU plays Alabama in the BCS title game. I won’t call it the “national championship game” because that would give it more weight than it deserves. It’s basically the SEC championship game a month later.

Major college football has the lamest and most absurd postseason of any sport. Even if Bama wins Monday, all they will have done is split the season series with LSU. The Tide could not even make its conference championship game and yet it gets voted into the most lucrative game of the season. Had these two teams gotten here via a legitimate playoff, then the winner could claim they’re the champs. But in a system as phony as the BCS, a one-loss Bama team is no better than a one-loss LSU or Oklahoma State. Only a LSU win would feel right.

Bama got here the phony way — by winning enough votes in the coaches’ poll to pass Oklahoma State, which came ahead of the Tide in the computer rankings. Bama coach Nick Saban had a vote, and he put Oklahoma State No. 4, thereby hurting its chances.  As ESPN noted: “Saban was the only one of the six SEC coaches on the panel who didn’t vote Oklahoma State No. 3.” Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy did not have a vote this season. That tells you all you need to know about what a joke this system and game is — a coach with a direct interest gets to vote and help decide which teams get to play. Sounds like an election in the old Soviet Union, where the president would win 99.9% of the vote.

This system always pisses me off since college football is such a great sport to watch. Imagine if this year’s Oklahoma State-Stanford Fiesta Bowl or Oregon-Wisconsin Rose Bowl were quarterfinal playoff games instead of meaningless exhibitions; we’d be dissecting them days later instead of watching and then moving on. I still don’t know why Division II and III can have playoffs and not the BCS schools.

I doubt whether ESPN will discuss Honey Badger’s nude photos or what a rockin’ body Bama kicked Cade Foster has. But, for me, those are more interesting than the blather Musberger and Herbstreit will dispense.

Part of me wants LSU to win, to shut up the insufferable Alabama fans who act like their team’s inclusion in this game is obvious to anyone. Another part of me wants an ugly Bama win and then AP voters keeping LSU No. 1 and having a split championship. Anything to show what a fraud the BCS is.

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His most recent work, according to Models.com, was a spread for Antidote magazine called “Boys, Boys, Boy: The Boys of Dolce Gabbana” (photo below). He got a rave from the website The Conway:

Justin Halley Had A HUGE Runway Transformation This Season…

He Walked Dolce & Gabbana, D&G, & Dsquared2 In Milano.

THEN Walked Givenchy With Bleached Hair & Eyebrows!

Models Gotta WORK! Congrats On A Great Season Justin!

More of Halley here.

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With 40% of the vote, Sandusky received more than double the votes of second-place-finisher Tim Tebow, who racked up 17% of the vote. Anti-gay-marriage activist Damian Goddard tied with Jocks who blow off their ‘fag’ comments with 12% of the vote. Anti-lesbian Nigerian soccer coach Eucharia Uche got 11% and former New York Giant David Tyree received 9% of the vote.

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Every year we crown our annual ‘Jerk of the Year,’ honoring those in sports who were, well, jerks. Last year’s ‘Jerk of the Year’ was the Belmont University administration, who fired soccer coach Lisa Howe after she came out of the closet.

This year we have many worthy candidates from football, basketball, hockey and soccer; Nigeria, Canada and the U.S.; athletes, coaches, and sportscaster. Our ‘Jerk of the Year’ will be announced Jan. 4 so get your vote in now! And thanks to everyone who offered their nominees!

Damian Goddard. When sports agent Todd Reynolds Tweeted his opposition to same-sex marriage last spring, Goddard Tweeted his support for Reynolds’ bigoted position. Goddard was later fired. He’s found recent employment with anti-gay Maggie Gallagher’s new anti-gay organization, the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance, whose sole purpose is to fight against marriage equality. While others have made their anti-gay voices heard, Goddard is the rare (former) sports figure whose job it is now to fight against equality.

David Tyree. The former New York Giants wideout, best known for his miracle catch in the Super Bowl, used his 15 minutes of fame this year to fight against marriage equality in New York. Tyree, who just 40 years ago would not have been able to marry the woman of his choice in many states, recorded a PSA for the National Organization for Marriage (which is actually against marriage), an anti-gay-rights organization. In the PSA he said gay marriage leads to anarchy.

Eucharia Uche. While other sportspeople talked about their homophobia, Nigerian national soccer coach Uche did something about it. Last summer she said lesbians livea “dirty life” and she wouldn’t tolerate it. She also said there were lesbians on her Super Falcons team when she took over in 2009, but she kicked them all off the team. With so much homophobia literally and figuratively strangling gay people in Africa, Uche was sports’ symbol of the terrible struggle there.

Jerry Sandusky. The former defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team was charged with various counts of sexual assault against young boys. To make matters worse, many of them were allegedly part of Sandusky’s football camps and other football programs. The entire Penn State athletic program was shamed by the allegations, which ended the historic tenure of head football coach Joe Paterno.

Jocks who blow off their ‘fag’ comment. We make a distinction here for the athletes who uttered anti-gay slurs this year and tried to defend it. The most prominent was Kobe Bryant, who essentially told everyone to take a chill pill after he was caught calling a referee a “faggot” on national TV. He justified his actions for 48 hours before apologizing. Others included two of Joe In Philly’s favorites: DeSean Jackson and Wayne Simmonds.

Tim Tebow. Because.

Honorable mentions: Sports agent Todd Reynolds, who created the Tweet that Goddard replied to; USC quarterback Matt Barkley, who Tweeted his opposition to same-sex marriage rights; Croatian soccer president Vlatko Markovic said gays are not allowed on the country’s national team.

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Cadet Elijah shows his abs

Two weeks ago, we reported on a fun and cool video of Air Force Academy cadets doing a shirtless lip-synch in their underwear to the song “I’m Sexy and I Know It.” The song was their entry for a “spirit” video prior to the Nov. 5 college football game against Army, but was banned by academy as being “inappropriate.” Now, the video has been removed from the site that posted it after it got widespread links from gay websites.

Outsports was the catalyst for the heavy linking. In the days after we first posted it, the video was mentioned on numerous gay website. Sites with heavy traffic like Towleroad and Dan Savage also picked up the video and they caused the view count on the YouTube page to leap in a day. Then reader Warren C. E. Austin noticed something last week:

This video has apparently been taken “private” and therefore out-of-bounds; nor, are Six Star Productions continuing to host it; nor, are they making any mention of it on their channel at YouTube; censorship apparently having done its’ job.

He’s right. The video is marked “private” and there is no way of knowing exactly how many views it has gotten. It might just be coincidental that the video disappeared just when it was getting wide play on gay websites (all of which loved it). But just days prior to Outsports linking to it, smaller gay sites had linked to the same video posted on another YouTube account that is still active.

In November, four of the cadets went on a show hosted by Gayle Bass of RightThisMinute.com, where they talked about why the video was made and where Bass asked them “who has better abs, the Air Force or the Army?” These guys seemed to love the attention, especially the tight-bodied Elijah who is the star of the video.

It’s not clear who ordered the video yanked. The cadets clearly enjoyed doing it and talking about it to the mainstream media. But someone noticed the gays were also enjoying it and that weirded that someone out. But never fear. Another YouTube user (apparently from Russia or somewhere they they use the Cyrillic alphabet) has saved it for your viewing pleasure and I doubt anyone from the Air Force can get this one yanked:

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Leave it to Brian Boitano to come up with this — he had a TV special with hunky guests like Ryan Bradley and Michael Weiss. In one skit, he gets all the guys dressed in football uniforms for the Notre Dame fighting Irish. Have to say, Bradley and Weiss looked incredible in those tight football pants.

There is one part where one skater completes a pass to another, looking better than most Notre Dame QBs have in a while:

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This video was made by “Six Star Productions” for the upcoming Army game. Well done gentlemen.  Deemed by wing staff as “too inappropriate to play for the cadet wing” this video will live on in our hearts, and as a tribute to banned spirit videos everywhere….

Go AF Beat ARMY!!

Not sure why seeing athletic cadets cavorting in their underwear would be “inappropriate” for people who could be called to a war zone, but that’s bureaucracy. I, for one, quite enjoyed supporting our troops in this one. Air Force beat Army this year, 24-14.

Hat tip to Brent for sending this along.

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