This graphic is on the front page of ESPN.com and illustrates a story on “the world of hard-core hockey fight fans, the Cult of the Goon.” There are even goon fantasy leagues! As a reader, Alexander, e-mailed me: “Fight club homoeroticism shamelessly flaunted at ESPN website.” It’s an accurate description, as one devotee explains to writer Patrick Hruby:
Dropping the gloves is the ultimate commitment.
Two men going to war is a unique, intimate situation.
Of course, the article never directly addresses the homoerotic aspects; that would be getting too intimate, even for these guys, whose motto would be, “make war, not love.” —Jim Buzinski
This graphic is on the front page of ESPN.com and illustrates a story on “the world of hard-core hockey fight fans, the Cult of the Goon.” There are even goon fantasy leagues! As a reader, Alexander, e-mailed me: “Fight club homoeroticism shamelessly flaunted at ESPN website.” It’s an accurate description, as one devotee explains to writer Patrick Hruby:
Dropping the gloves is the ultimate commitment.
Two men going to war is a unique, intimate situation.
Of course, the article never directly addresses the homoerotic aspects; that would be getting too intimate, even for these guys, whose motto would be, “make war, not love.” —Jim Buzinski
