By: Tommyhawk1
I was with a classmate in the front yard of the frat house, the two of us doing one of our practice exercises. Our footballs (soccer balls that is) were stationary between our feet, and he and I were hopping, alternating our feet on the top of the football, and trying not to move it in the process. It's a very necessary practice in controlling the ball, but of course, Cody and his buddies thought it was hilarious when they came running out of the house tossing their American football back and forth.
Cody was big, blond-haired, and was wearing some of his old high-school American football clothes, the jersey and pants without padding, perfect for a friendly game of football with the guys. Not that he needed the padding; he had muscles enough to fill out that jersey all by himself.
"Hey, Perry!" he called out. "What is this shit?"
"Just practicing football," I said. I was used to Cody.
"You look like a couple of marionettes dancing on strings," he chortled. His buddies laughed.
"You think it's easy, you come try it," I challenged.
"Nah, my sport is football," he said.
"This is football," I pointed out.
We weren't talking at cross-purposes here; it was more like a running gag. His sport was American football, and I played what was called "football" everywhere in the world except North America. I was born in the USA, but had grown up with my mother's family in Italy, so a football - okay, I'll call it "soccer" from here on out - had been under my feet almost from the day I was born. When I had first met Cody and he asked me, naturally enough, what my sport was - it was a sports fraternity after all - I had absent-mindedly said, "Football."
"Great, me too!" he said. "What position do you play?"
"I'm a halfback," I said, still not spotting my error in terminology.
"Me, too!" he said. "Left or right?"
"Left or right what?" I asked.
"Halfback!" he said. "Do you usually play left or right?"
"Center, usually," I said, mystified.
"Center?" Now he was puzzled.
I'll spare you the rest, but it gradually dawned on me. "Oh!" I said when I realized. "You're talking about American football! I was talking about regular football!" I think you can see how saying this to an American football player was a mistake. A bit of his all-American pride got injured, though you can see I was innocent of intending to offend him.
"I play regular football!" he declared.
"You play American-style football," I pointed out. "I play what you call soccer, but the rest of the world calls it football."
"Well, you're in America, so you'll have to call it soccer!" he announced.
I don't want you to think we were becoming blood enemies with all of this, we were actually laughing and having fun at this point; we liked each other right off.
"I don't have to do any such thing!" I said. "I grew up calling it football. I'll just call what you do American football."
"And I'll call what you play shit!" he said.
"It's pronounced soccer," I mock-clarified. "Can't you even get that right?"
"Shit soccer!" he declared. "A sissy game... real men play football."
"That they do!" I affirmed. "I'm just glad that you can admit it."
This went on for quite a long time more, both of us scoring pretty good points in the conversation and becoming friends in the process, and it had continued more-or-less right through to the present day.
When in our sophomore year, the seniors of the frat house had graduated and moved out and it was time to upgrade our accommodations. Cody and I ended up sharing one of the newly-available bigger rooms, which was only natural; we were pals by then. Except for this little mock disagreement on what the game of "football" was!
"Hey, Perry, can we play here?" one of the other guys asked.
"Sure!" I said. "We'll go around to the side." It was a reasonable request; the front yard was big and flat, the side yard was only some ten feet wide, but plenty big enough for our practice.
"Ah, just stay where you are," Cody declared. "You two can be one of our goalposts."
I have to admit, we were situated for it, right near one side of the yard as we were. "Alright," I said. "I can give you all a good look at how to play football."
The guys just laughed; our mock-feud was well-known by all.
I should have realized I had set myself up when he didn't respond, for my friend and I continued our exercises, me feeling that the background noise would help us work on our concentration when Cody came chasing a friend of his my way and timed it so that when he tackled him, he rammed the guy right into me. I was off-balance (of course) and went over with an "oof!"
"You bastard!" I said, getting up and dusting at my shorts. I had landed on my ass, only my pride was injured.
"Hey, watch our goalposts!" Cody said to his friend. "The score is now six to nothing, our favor."
"We'd better go around to the side," my teammate said.
"I think you're right!" I said, glaring at Cody. I wasn't really mad, but I was pretending to be. Well, maybe I was a little mad, at that.
"Aw, come on," Cody said. "I'm sorry. You guys go ahead. We'll be more careful."
"You fouled me," I said. "You can't tackle in football, you know!"
"Says you. Okay, so what's the penalty in that sissy sport of yours?" he said, standing there arrogant and proud-looking.
"I get a free kick at the goal," I said.
He looked surprised and then laughed. "Okay, I'll be the goal for you. You go downfield and we'll see how good you are!"
I went across the yard ("downfield") with my soccer ball and turned, and Cody was standing there with his arms up, making a goal... American-football-style goal, of course.
"Okay, let's see you put it between the bars," he said. "Only way to score a goal in football."
Now, in soccer, the goal is down on the ground, but I had done enough high kicks to figure I could make this "goal" at such a short-range, especially with no goalie trying to block my kick. So I just sized him up, made a run, and kicked the ball, but I wasn't used to trying for altitude, not with a ball on the ground, anyway. So I muffed it, and instead of it going between his arms, I got him right where it hurts. Unintentionally, honest!
"Hey, you got your goal!" my teammate said. "Right down the middle!"
But Cody was dropped to the ground and yowling.
"Damn, man, I'm sorry!" I said as I ran up. "Did you get hit that hard?"
"Yeah! Ow!" he groaned. "Help me back up to the room, okay?"
I took his arm around my shoulders, smelling the powerful raunch of his body and clothes. He kept his body clean, but he'd been sweating today and he smelled pretty rich. He limped back up the front stairs into the house. We lived on the third floor, but there was an elevator mostly used for hauling big stuff or by jocks injured in play, and we took that.
I got him back to the room and he said, "Man, it feels like I'm bleeding."
"Bleeding?" I was surprised. A soccer ball isn't that hard, but I didn't see any reason to disbelieve Cody.
"Yeah, man," he groaned. "Can you check it out and see if I'm bleeding anywhere?"
"Check you out?" I asked.
"Come on, man!" he begged. "I can't put a mirror on the floor and squat over it. Take a look and see if I'm broken open anywhere."
Only a roommate you'd had for a while could be asked to do that. "Well, okay," I said. "But you tell the guys and I'll give you a real sock-er in the balls."
"I'm not going to tell them anything," he said. "Come on, man, take a look, quick."
"Unfasten yourself," I said.
I watched him fight the tie he had at the fly, a ridiculous amount of lacing up the front of those pants, and he was wincing. "Ah fuck," he groaned as he winced some more, "can you do it?"
I nodded and reached my hand for the laces. He stood a little straighter, holding onto the desktop with one hand, while I fumbled the laces open, pulling at the strings to get them loose.
"Don't you wear a cup with these things?"
"On the field, yeah," he said. "Ow! Not for a friendly game."
"Well, you'll remember it next time," I said. I had the fly unlaced. "Now what, do I yank them down?"
"Please," he said. "Every move I make hurts."
Boy, I thought, I had messed him up! I grasped his pants around the waist and tugged them down. No underwear. He didn't have even a jock on, just the pants down and suddenly he was wagging free.
"Damn!" I said. "I don't see any blood. Maybe you felt some sweat dripping."
"Lift it up," he said. "I think it's underneath."
I didn't really think about it. Although no one knew, I was gay, so touching his cock didn't bother me in the least. Plus, his prick was so long that it did obscure his balls entirely. I grabbed it and lifted his balls up and free of his body.
"Ow, ow!" he said as they moved.
I knelt down, leaned under, and peered at the scrotum, the balls were large nuts dangling down, but the scrotum itself began to tighten up as I looked at it.
"I don't see any blood. Nor any bruises," I said, shifting my hand on his cock to get a better grip. It was moving on me, too.
I was concentrating on looking for injuries, so this went pretty far before I realized what was happening. I looked up and found that I had a hold of my roommate's rampant erection, standing fully out from his body, seven uncut inches of hard cock, and I had a hold of it.