They say the internet remembers forever. And it truly does. You never know what you’re going to find out there on the world wide web. Today, for instance, we discovered a video someone uploaded of a group of sweaty guys playing handball in their jockstraps in the roaring 1920s. Fun!
The 15-minute, vaguely NSFW clip appears on The Internet Archive, a non-profit dedicated to building a digital library of cultural artifacts ranging from outdated computer software programs to old school radio recordings to archival footage of ripped dudes in their skivvies from 100 years ago.
The footage raises a number of questions for us. Who are these men? What is their relationship to one another? Why are they playing handball in their jockstraps? Who’s filming them, and why? Who won the match? And what did they do afterwards?
Unfortunately, the answers to these questions have been lost to time. But the footage remains.
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bachy
This was beautiful. It isn’t often these days to see male nudity on display outside of pornographic media.
SDR94103
who hid their asses? ridiculous.
SUPREME
if they hadn’t hid their asses, you’d have something to bitch and moan about that too, so what’s the point?
WendellE
I think it’s silly that they need to be hidden here, but if you click on the link to the video at the end of the article, you can see them unhidden.
Vera Delmar
Go to the link and see the silent film of these young men in their jocks playing handball. Just so delicious watching them. I can only imagine what their jocks would have smelled like.