Is U.S. football that distinctive as a focus for masculinity obsession? Soccer seems to have extreme masculine associations in every country where it's the predominant sport, to the point that women's soccer is treated as a joke (not that this is all that different from women's sports everywhere).
It may not be distinctively so compared to all sports in all countries, but it feels pretty distinctive in the US with respect to many other American sports. Although as an additional data point—most sports have a women’s league, even if it is overlooked and underfunded. Women’s American football teams are so rare as to be functionally nonexistent. That’s pretty weird! There’s women’s soccer, women’s baseball, even women’s hockey—but (as far as I know) basically no women’s football.
For the first time in 27 years, the university of Michigan is playing for a national championship tonight!
And unlike 1997, this is an actual title game!
Here we go!
Dusk at the Rose Bowl – a significant reason why it’s considered the premier stadium in all of football. Not just college football; Football, period. Photo courtesy of twitter.com
ONCE AGAIN, THE ROSE BOWL PROVIDED AN EPIC GAME FOR THE AGES…
Which considering that the two teams that played there, Michigan and Alabama, were vying for a spot in the College Football Playoff National Championship…