"Both the NFL and gospel music, then, might be said to have long relied on flamboyantly fraught caricatures of gender and sexuality..."
“Both the NFL and gospel music, then, might be said to have long relied on flamboyantly fraught caricatures of gender and sexuality, and both football and gospel are as often assumed to be keepers of traditional values surrounding masculinity and piety as they are deeply indebted to decidedly homoerotic and queer energies.”
Douglas Harrison, from his excellent article “Faith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL“


