Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (February 06, 2009)

Two of the ten were watching Puppy Bowl V on Animal Planet, but I was disappointed with it this year. It was only two hours long instead of the usual three, and the kitty half-time show seemed like it only lasted five minutes. Plus it seemed fairly obvious that a few of the puppies (I'm not naming names) were on the juice.

Woof!

The remaining four actually did watch the game, so in my estimation, 40 percent of all gay men were watching the Superbowl this year. Were you one of them? Take our poll and let us know!

Tennis, anyone?

The Super Bowl wasn't the only major sports event last weekend, but the other one has left me an empty, broken shell of a man.

Where is the justice?

Above you can see my beloved Roger Federer as he breaks down while accepting the runner-up trophy after Sunday's Australian Open final. He lost to the obviously bionic Spaniard Rafael Nadal in another of their classic matches. Many people were taken aback by Roger's show of emotion (he cried on Nadal's shoulder), but my favorite response came from the tennis forum at Outsports.com:

I found Roger crying to be one of the hottest things I have seen in sports in a while. It was like he had been fighting against it for so long, but now realized his destiny. The whole time Nadal was looking on kind of hard faced. Like Fed finally kind of accepted that Raffa has at last gained dominance -- tamed him. I would have liked Nadal to come over with a collar and leash, give him an affectionate deep kiss, brush his tears away and whisper hotly "Good, See my pet? You can stop fighting me. Now you understand, I own you" and lead him off by the leash. It really seemed like a cool SM subtext going on to me.

Now that's a fan!

Interestingly, most of my gay male friends, even the ones who would rather gouge their eyes out than watch football, are tennis fans. In fact, of all major sports, I'd be willing to bet that tennis is one of, if not the most popular for gay spectators. The question is, why do some sports seem to appeal to gay men more than others?

Subtle...

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