@Ticomaya,
What's abnormal about pretending? The bare, forked beast of prey with a prehensile grip is a bit much for most people.
Your avatar proves that. And the idea in your profile that the country is growing up is ridiculous. We seem to be slithering back into short pants to me.
NFL is a business enterprise in case you don't know. It's about extracting money from the public. And it ain't about anything else.
I'm all for dancing girls. I have lost count of the number of times a flying tackle taking the receiver into the out-of-bounds a yard short of the endzone has been re-run in slow-mo and I'm gawping at the Cheer Leader in the background whose little wrists are twirling the tinsel ticklers reflexively. There was one on Sunday whose very short shorts were pulled up as tight as tight gets without causing a grimace. It was obvious she was not wearing a protector.
Why are there no buxom matrons in the Cheer Leaders? The buxom matrons I have come across can twirl tinsel ticklers better than any of those clean-cut American virgins.
We are not very edifying creatures when we cease pretending.