08/20/2008
Are Rafael Nadal's Butt Muscles Just Too Big?
Outsports notes that New York Magazine asks the pressing fashion questions about U.S. Open top seed and Olympic champ Rafael Nadal:
"His has been called a 'pirate' look, but the interesting thing about Nadal’s style is that it’s so feminine—a thinner, less physical player could not pull off those clothes. Maybe that’s why he’s been greeted with the kind of moral outrage—'Abominable!' 'Infernal!'—usually reserved for the latest female player to show too much skin. Debate over the pants in particular, and Nadal’s habit of reaching back to loosen them between points, has trespassed on the familiar terrain of comfort versus sex appeal. Are they too tight? Is it one of his many elaborate on-court rituals (Nadal’s own explanation)? Or are his butt muscles just too big?"
Previously
Nadal Dethrones Five-Time Wimbledon Champ Federer [tr]
It's Hot in Melbourne [tr]
Sportrait: Rafael Nadal [tr]
Posted 9:58 AM EST by Andy Towle in Fashion Men, New York, News, Olympics, Rafael Nadal, Tennis | Permalink
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If they are indeed too big (I think they're just perfect) he could start wearing fashions from Serena Williams' Eneres line.
Posted by: Dan B | Aug 20, 2008 10:12:26 AM
There's no photographic evidence! We need a side-on. There is a guy at the gym who has the best butt I have ever seen. *daze*
Posted by: daymee | Aug 20, 2008 10:28:13 AM
No such thing!
Posted by: GM | Aug 20, 2008 10:46:30 AM
perhaps we could get him to model some of the diver speedos so we could make a better determination?
Posted by: TA | Aug 20, 2008 11:02:47 AM
"Does this gold medal make my butt look fat?"
Posted by: Gianpiero | Aug 20, 2008 11:04:18 AM
How do you say "junk in the trunk" in Spanish?
Posted by: David | Aug 20, 2008 11:19:06 AM
there is nothing too big about that boy. he's perfect. vamos rafa!
Posted by: nic | Aug 20, 2008 11:24:47 AM
Hmmm no comments yet from the readers who no doubt are Adonises about how ugly he is. I am surprised.
May we never see the day when all of us look the same and "perfect".
Posted by: SJ | Aug 20, 2008 12:06:32 PM
soccer bod is the new black.
Posted by: gregg | Aug 20, 2008 12:11:03 PM
Actually, SJ, I find his face to be rather unattractive. But different strokes and all that right? ;)
Posted by: Jason | Aug 20, 2008 12:19:22 PM
perhaps they just ride up and give him a wedge all the time. i'd be yankin' back there too if my flimsy sport shorts rode up in my crack all the time.
then again, i've been told for years that i don't have a butt so much as just a meeting of the legs.
Posted by: alguien | Aug 20, 2008 12:30:37 PM
maybe he just doesn't wipe well enough... skanky butt will do that do you...
Posted by: the queen | Aug 20, 2008 12:43:34 PM
david, i think it's "caca en los chonis"
Posted by: the queen | Aug 20, 2008 12:53:11 PM
*laughing too loud for work @ The Queens' comment*
I don't think his face is very attractive either, but it does have an eye-catching quality.
Posted by: JP | Aug 20, 2008 1:11:17 PM
His butt muscles are perfect. His shorts fit perfectly. I don't see a problem here.
Posted by: bobbo | Aug 20, 2008 2:23:13 PM
Get some bigger shorts sweetie...
Posted by: atheist | Aug 20, 2008 3:38:50 PM
who wouldathunk the queen was a prissy shit. i volunteer to pull this guy's "pope'" out with my teeth, each and every time. hell's yeah!
Posted by: nic | Aug 20, 2008 3:49:27 PM