More Naked Ruggers ... Sigh

Keywords: Austrian, Rugby, Strip, Lithuania (Source)

What happens when the Austrian national rugby team loses a match against the Lithuanian team? Why they strip and sing, of course!

Note to self: watch more rugby. Too bad the video isn't in high-def. (The leader of the pack is pretty cute - from what I can see of him.)

View the entire nude sing-a-long here. (NSFW)

Ruggers Gone Wild

Sandbach Rugby Boys Bonding

Here's an extended version of the Sandbach Rugby Team gone drunk and wild (same team I posted about before). There's lots of pints being hand (330 total!) - lots of "straight" boys going "gay" - and obviously a lot of NSFW moments. Be forewarned ... this is so classic, I love it.

La La La Eye-Candy Du Jour

Rugby Spramps Advertisement (Source: Towleroad)
It's been awhile here since we've gotten some really good eye-candy. I have an on-going fascination with the homoeroticism of rugby (I mean, who doesn't, really?), which I've posted about in "Spramps in the Most (Un)expected Places." Leave it to the fantastic Towleroad blog to keep my salivary glands, well, salivating. What we have then is a fantastic new ad campaign by the French tourism site C'est so Paris to attract, apparently, Londoners to Paris for the Rugby World Cup. I'm sure the ad will attract more than just Londoners, don't you think? I mean, I'd book a flight directly to Paris for this event, and I'm hardly a Rugby-type. I'd definitely go if I got to see more of this type of body contact!

Enjoy enjoy the eye-candy, folks! Nummy!

Click on image for the wallpaper version (1280 x 768):


See also: "Paris Rugby" from Jockohomo.com

Eye Candy is Addictive

The Double-Take Edition

Statue at Stadio dei Marmi (Source: Google Image Search)

I’ve been thinking about those queerly straight rugby players that I wrote about a few days ago, which got me to do a little Web-searchin' to see if I could find anything more on those buggers, I mean ruggers. And remarkably, or not, we’ve seem to hit a blogger’s impasse; with that I mean, these Sandbach ruggers have fallen into a hole (no pun).

I searched and found a blog entry called “Why Gay Rugby” Is Redundant,” from the blog Hot Jock of the Day (HJOTD). While the post had nothing new to say about the ruggers, I was more intrigued by the blog, itself. Could this hold a treasure-trove of eye-candy, I wondered? Indeed, if your fancy are “hot jocks,” you’re in for a treat. The site owner is considerate enough to label things “SFW” (Safe for Work – for all those looky-loos at work), “SSFW” (Sort-of-Safe for Work), and our fave “NSFW” (no explanation needed). Most of the jocks, at least the ones I gazed at on the site, are clothed but there’s still a lot of hotness there. But isn’t half the fun undressing them in your mind? (I’m just sayin’).

• Hot Jock of the Day (http://hotjocks.wordpress.com)
• The site did provide a link to the YouTube vid of the Sandbach debauchery (NSFW). For those of you sticklers (no pun) for size (no pun), the vid on YouTube is a tad larger than what you see on the Ethan Says blog.
  

Web surfing is like free-associating. Blogrolls are free-associators’ best friends. Inquiring minds always want to know more (or in my case, see more), so I paid Wet Boxers Guy, the blog on HJOTD's site that is, a visit. Be forewarned or rather be very tempted, HJOTD has kindly labeled it a NSFW site, and kids, it is exactly that. While most images are not of guys wearing wet boxers, but rather a large number of guys in their undies. Although I imagine that at some point something’s gonna to get wet. It’s actually not really that smutty, and for good reason—I mean, again, part of the fun is that thing in photographs that pricks you, the punctum in Roland Barthes’ lingo (blame the pun on him!), which in these photographs is that which is hidden underneath the tighty-whiteys. I'd hold off looking at the site until I was at home. Asides from that: the pop up ads are pretty annoying and might actually kill the mood.

Wet Boxers Guy (http://wetboxersguy.blogspot.com/)

So still free-associating and thinking that perhaps my eye-candy compulsion is over, I remembered something I read in the outTravler that my friend Dr. Paul gave to me. All these images of hunky mens reminded of fantastic sculptures at Stadio de Marmi in northern Rome at the Foro Italico sports complex. The sculptures are absolutely stunning and amazingly homoerotic!?! According to the short blurb about the statues (which I’ve attached below), many (gay and straight) travel guides overlook this sight. I’m making a mental note to myself to go the next time I’m in Italy, that’s for sure!

“In northern Rome, surrounding a discreet soccer field, 60 erotic--both naked and adorned--white marble Olympic athletes tower above, preening themselves or staring seductively at each other across the stadium. The incredible Stadio dei Marmi, in the large Foro Italico sports complex, was a centerpiece of Mussolini's fascist Italy in the 1930s. Perhaps that is why the Stadio, with its statues, field, and running track, is absent from most travel books, gay or straight, and is known and used mostly by locals. The formidable 12-foot size of the Stadio dei Marmi statues is surreal, made more interesting by time: Over the last 75 years, bronze fig leaves have been added to cover some of the chiseled penises, creating an embarrassed modesty; but luckily, many of the athletes still stand proud in all their naked glory.”—Christopher Lucas, via e-mail
(Source: “Snapshots,” OUTTraveler, Summer 2007 Issue)

• For more images of the statues: Google Image Search.

Oy...I think I'm wiped out from all this eye-candy! At least it broke-up the monotony of my day. Still lots to do and it seems like very little time. Hey, it's the mid-week hump! My fave day. Nighty, nighty!

jcb
Seattle Has the Best Eye-Candy!

Spramps in the Most (Un)expected Places

All a Sudden I'm in the Mood for a Shower Edition
We here at Spramp appreciate the head-scratchin’, double-take doin’, can’t-stop-lookin’, hyper-testosterone queer lovin’ ways that often get played out in the most (un)expected spaces. I was just telling my friend Craig the other night at Bal/Mar that P.E. (Phys. Ed.) was the most horrible class that I was required to take. After junior high, in fact, I found ways never to take it even though we needed at least a year (or two) of it to graduate (geesh, can you imagine not being able to graduate because of P.E? Cringe!). I think for a lot of us Spramps the locker-room was one of Dante’s “circle of hell.” I know it wasn’t fun for me, the little that I do remember (repressed memories?). Oh how things have changed! Indeed, we here at Spramp now consciously seek out those queer moments that get played daily right before our eyes, it seems, with folks who just make us wonder if socially constructed boundaries of gender and sexuality are just a waste of time. Or perhaps men are just inherently horny…you tell me. I originally scoped what follows out on the fantastic blog Towleroad (“A Site with Homosexual Tendencies”) and posted it onto the Spramp Shares sidebar (on the right-hand side). The British rugby players have taken “male-bonding” to an extreme and apparently have no qualms about certain…hmmm….queer actions performed—thank god for the beer, eh?!? The video clip, which you can get to via the Ethan Says Homorific blog, is a MUST to view. And be forewarned, the vid clip is very NSFW!

In a commissioned series by September Films for the UK's ITV 2, "Generation Xcess" looks at the lives of 20-somethings and how they entertain themselves on a "typical" Saturday night. Included in the film, which portrays these 20-somethings as a "culture of excess" and out of control, we find the Sandbach rugby team involved in a bit of male bonding which, after the equivalent of 240 pints of beer have been downed, involves stripping and more than a bit of "snogging and wanking" of other teammates.
(Source: Ethan Says Homorific)

From the link that I followed, the rugby team featured, Sandback RUFC, is quite legit. Unfortch, I’m not going to post the video clip here, but have opted rather to titillate with some screen captures.

Sanbach RUFC at Their Finest ... (Source Screen Captures: Ethan Says Homorific - Click on any of the pictures to be led to the video clip.)

Doesn't that just make you want to join a rugby team? The Chairman of the Sandbach rugby team posted a letter on the team's Web site and did not sound all that pleased, chalking the "excess" (as the title of the video project would seem to indicate, "Generation Xcess") to things other than, well, desire. Here's an excerpt:

As the title would suggest, the object of the programme was solely to display excessive behaviour in young people,­ an objective in which the producers were ultimately successful. While it is clear that some team members were ‘playing-up' to the camera, I have been led to believe that certain individuals had also been offered inducements to behave outrageously and ‘play-up' even more.
(Source: "Message From the Chairman," Sandbach RUFC Web site)

Whatever it is, it certainly makes for an "interesting" viewing experience.

Yes, indeed, shower time!

jcb
c c c a a a t t t l l l, WAWA