This Is Pure Bull ****
The word is out. The same thing in the U.S. Military. Keep your mouth shut, don't make waves, and you can continue to collect a paycheck. The "powers at be" have decided to make the "gay way" the "OK way." Don't believe it for a second.
Football and ALL ORGANIZED SPORTS are based on what is called the "military model."
Look it up in any "Sociology 101" book. From the top down there has to be a coherent and unifying principal that the group of people form around and makes them different from the rest of the human race. (for example, the NFL does not take a list of 1,696 players and randomly chose 32 groups of 53 to play each other on Sunday) Think of each group of players as a Society, or a Club, or a Unit, A TEAM ! Once we have this concept, we can move on to the next.
If you have ever experienced being on a high school football team. Or the wonderful pleasure a military "boot camp." Or at the other end of the spectrum, if you have ever been a inmate (wearing a orange jumpsuit) in the County Jail. You my friend, have experienced what is called the "US vs. THEM" mental condition. (It is what makes the world go around)
But within our "us vs. them" group, we are not all equal. We have what is called 'LEADERS.' In the military, they are called Sergeants. In sports we call them Coach.' You experience it every day of your working life. YOU CALL this Person your BOSS.
OK lets jump to the Chase. All these relationships are based on what is called RESPECT.
Now when you are in the "trenches" of life. And you have that "leader" of men, yelling at you to pull that rope, or PUSH for ONE MORE YARD. And you DO IT (you did not think you could)
That is because of that "respect" thing you had for that dude called "leader."
But once you find out that "sergeant" is taking it up the *******. Or your powerful and fearless leader, likes to sleep with young boys. It kind of kills the whole ILLUSION.
I am trying to condense a whole Sociological theory here. But I think you get the idea.