QT QBs

For some ungodly reason, I watched a lot of football over the past week or so.  Responsible for this odd phenomenon was a virtually non-existent backlog on TiVo and that there seemed to be a football game on every other frickin' channel!

But before you think I got all hetero on your ass, I spent a good deal of time making the predictable jokes about "tight ends" and gigglin' like a school girl each time a commentator used any form of the word "penetrate."

However, the majority of my energy was pondering whether quarterbacks were required to pass some kind of male beauty pageant before earning their... umm... position.

Let's look at some of what caught my eye by category...

History in the Making Edition: Two favorites on the gay blogosphere are Tom Brady and Brett Favre.  As mentioned, I don't follow football all that much... and while I could obviously see the reasons why he would be "popular" I didn't get the spontaneous orgasm appeal of Brady...  but okay,  I saw much of the history making Patriots-Giants perfect season game... and I get it.

And while I knew Favre was a hottie back in the day... but lately I've thought he's been looking old and scruffy... and not necessarily in the good way... more like, any minute now he'll be doing commercials for penis-centric health-related/drug commercials or arthritis medication (granted he's already pitching the prescription heartburn med Prilosec) kind of way.... but now I find out he's two years younger than me... so okay, he's hot... and I couldn't find a bad picture to prove my original point anyhow!

Hometown Arizona Cardinals Edition:  I never got on the Matt Leinart (right) bandwagon.  He came off as sort of a prima donna when he was miffed that worse teams than the AZ Cardinals (which is saying something) skipped over him at draft time... and while being BFF with Nick Lachey during his USC days earned him some point in my book, he lost them immediately thanks to "friendships" with a pair of hotel heiress sisters.  The "golden boy" (another strike against him) has spawned with someone else and had a season-ending injury in the first game (or one of the first games) of this past season.  But that's okay... since I have grown to appreciate Kurt Warner (left).  While I can understand the boy-ish charm of Leinart, Warner is definitely "all man"... and in the very best way.

All Manning Edition:  While there's certainly nothing wrong with Peyton (left)... after watching that above mentioned Patriots-Giants game, I have to say younger brother Eli is my pick in the eye-candy department. In researching this topic, I have learned that attractiveness is not directly correlated with ability and skill as a quarterback.  But is it really such a bad thing that Eli is the easier brother to sack?

Collegiate Edition:  When did college quarterbacks come with "ready to go" porno names?  Even in my wildest brainstorming sessions, I don't think I could have come up with John David Booty of USC (left) and Colt Brennan of Hawai'i (right).   These two were on opposite ends of Bowl routs yesterday.  Booty victorious in the Rose Bowl, while I think it would be "take a number" for those of us wishing to console Brennan after his first loss of the season at the Sugar Bowl.