I am not sure this article falls into any specific sport, but it does relate to every sport, in that no one wants to admit that "Gay" men exist in football, baseball, basketball, or any other mainstream sport.  In fact, the opposite is pushed.  When is the last time you saw a beer commercial with two "sexy" men pawing all over each other?  Beer commercials understand what Hollywood hasn't learned;  men like women and sex sells.

Brokeback Mountain is a movie about a relationship between two gay cowboys.  Now I think Hollywood can make movies about any subject they want.  The question is will it make them money.  This one clearly is losing money, but check out the numbers to see if I am misinformed.

I am also amazed at how the Hollywood pundits try to spin a movie like Brokeback Mountain and tell us how successful it is and will be.  Here is what Reuters has to say, "Bokeback Mountain is doing well at the Box office-even though it is only showing in 69 theaters,(doesn't that alone tell you it isn't popular), it was last week's 8^th highest grossing movie."  Let me put this in perspective for those who haven't had time to check out the actual numbers.  King Kong is showing on 3568 screens and is number one this weekend at the Box Office grossing over 66 million dollars in its first week.  Number two at the box office this weekend in its second week is the Chronicles of Narnia grossing over 113 million on 3680 screens.  Harry Potter has made over 252 million after being out for 5 weeks and is still playing on 3185 screens. 

Spin it anyway you want Hollywood, but Brokeback Mountain is not going to be a popular movie and the fact that a movie called "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" starring Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr. is starring in 81 screens, a movie I have never heard of, has grossed more than four million and Brokeback Mountain has grossed just over 3 million, should be a sign that it is a huge failure. 

Most men I know who are into sports don't want to go watch a movie about gay cowboys, and women want to watch men who are, well, sexy, and into women.  No one goes to watch Colin Farrell or Tom Cruise get lucky with another man.  They would rather watch a woman get lucky with an Ape than watch Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaall hook up.  Long live King Kong!