CHEERLEADERS? NO WAY, SAYS THIS OBSERVER, THEY'RE CHEERPROVIDERS
Frank Deford
December 04, 1978
The New Year's Eve we did the town,The day we tore the goalposts down—We will have these moments to remember....*—FIRST IN A SERIES OF AMERICAN ROMANTIC MEMORIES
Of course, given its throbbing, forced intimacy, basketball can be kind of sexy, but only in a sweaty, drive-in-theater sort of way. Hockey is not at all sexy, and is probably asexual. Baseball is merely fond and affectionate. If football is courtship, baseball is marriage. In fact, if you'll notice, while the TV networks always zero in on pretty spectators at football games, they only show shots of wives at baseball games.
Football is always sexy. Football is extremely sexy. In fact, between the mayhem and the tedium that is football today, football needs to be even sexier. Make love, not field goals.
*Lyrics from Moments to Remember