American football is just a wimpy version of Rugby after all.
All sports are bone-dead boring, football's just the most blatantly homoerotic one of the litter.
Really, I've never gotten the appeal. If I want to watch grown adults slam into one another, I'll watch Braveheart or something...and if it HAS to be some kind of sport, I'll stick to wrestling or something. At least the characters there are halfway interesting, and its STILL less gay than football.