Brett Favre, Tim Tebow. Two football studs well known for donning a black jock, even in their game whites. Which begs the question... Do these guys, and any footballer who wears black gear under their white gamepants WANT us all to see what they're sportin? Jesus, I mean, they can't NOT know how obvious they're being? I don't know about you, but I think these dudes are definitely sending a signal to the rest of us.. What do you think?? Leave a comment below! Oh, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Black jocks seem to be more popular with those guys who can find them. Some say they are softer and more comfortable, any fabric dyeing process includes a softener so this would make sense. My little brother recently ask me to help find them for him and some of his teammates. They had actually found a couple in the lockerroom while at an away game (and had swiped them i guess). Some guys who wouldn't normally wear one will wear a black one, go figure. Others who shower in their jock like them because they don't become transparent when wet. They also don't look as "used" as the season takes it's toll on all their gear.
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Tim Tebow actually was not wearing a black jock, its was dark grey and appears black when wet or sweaty. Go to McDavidUSA website and search site for product 3350. The following is an article when the prodcut came out last year.
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What began with a University of Florida football player’s request of his girlfriend to modify his uniform undershorts has turned into a product that both Florida and Georgia players will wear on the field today.
Professional and college players have worn the shorts or girdles, embedded with pads protecting their hips, tailbones and thighs for years. One of the manufacturers making these girdles is Woodridge, Ill.-based McDavid Inc., which embeds its proprietary HexPads in its “Thudd Shorts” girdles.
But last year, McDavid Director of Marketing Rey Corpuz said, an unnamed Florida player decided the girdles, which replaced the former “five-pocket” girdle about five years ago, were too confining and wanted to keep the padding, but wear less.
“One of the players cut off his girdle and had the pads sewn to his jock strap,” he said.
Jason Baisden, Florida’s equipment manager, determined that the modified garment met the NCAA’s requirements for padding, so he sent pictures of the modified garment to McDavid. The manufacturer delivered prototypes soon after, Corpuz said. Players have dubbed the new product the “elephant jock.”
“It’s as protective as the previous product,” Corpuz said. “It’s the same product. There just isn’t as much product. These guys want to go lighter and lighter.”
To be sure, there’s not much left. The new padding garment is an athletic supporter with tailbone and hip HexPads hanging off. Players can opt to insert thigh pads into their uniform pants separately, he said.
According to the NCAA, pads are required to protect hips, tailbone and thighs. The NCAA’s “Football 2009-10 Rules and Interpretations” book notes the requirement, but does not specifically indicate how the padding should be done.
Since McDavid has added the new “HexPro Performance Mesh Supporter with HexPad” to its product mix, other teams, such as Oklahoma and Texas, are picking it up, he said. But until today, two teams equipped with elephant jocks hadn’t yet gone head to head, he said.
So in at least one way, the 88th Florida-Georgia game will mark a first.
That's awesome man! Thanks for the info! You have def done your research. Love that you know so much about Tebow's jockstraps... Please continue to contribute to the conversation!
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I think they know very well what they are doing lets face it there are gay guys in the NFL collage and high school football
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure they're aware. How could they not be. Women who wear a low cut blouse are aware they are revealing cleavage and know what is seen when they wear something tight and semi transparent. No different for men. I think this is why many players switched to compression shorts, especially those on teams with white pants. Same for the guys that wear their gear pants a size or two smaller. Even more revealing and they have to know it.I'm certainly not complaining or mocking those that wear the obvious jock, I salute them. Makes watching football even better.
ReplyDeleteDo these guys *consciouly* want us all to see that they're wearing black jockstraps? Consciously in the sense of thinking about it more than a fleeting moment, probably not. Not, at least, most of them. But are they somehow aware of the effect that visible jockstrap lines have on men or women? I would argue that yes, definitively.
ReplyDeleteLet me draw a comparison. Does every young guy every time they need to wear shorts thinks "I need to look macho; shorter shorts are for fags", and picks longer, baggy shorts? Probably not. But there is no doubt in my mind that there is a connection between the increased social visibility of gay men and the need that most men seem to experience to hide the most conspicuous features of the male anatomy. As if thinking "I don't want to appear sexually attractive to other men; they might think that I'm attracted to them, too". Even if that makes them slightly less attractive to women (who as a group, incidentally, are way less visual than the average guy).
Otherwise, I agree with another Anonymous: black athletes (not only football players) should wear white jocks and white athletes should wear black jockstraps. And everyone should wear white or clear color pants!
And Mother Nature should give us a light rain and heat during every sports game. That way those pants would be translucent with water and sweat...