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11 Awkward Sexual Advances In Sports

Since the dawn of human interaction, the awkward sexual advance has been a time-honored tradition, right up there with the prolonged job interview fart in the pagoda of painful person-on-person faux pas. But did you know that, in addition to being a mainstay outside your local construction site and just-off-campus keg party, the uncalled-for sexual overture has a proud history in sport?

It’s true! Like any social train wreck worth its salt, misplaced romantic proposals — from men and women — play out on the grandest sports-related stages, from the sidelines at Sunday Night Football games to the studios of ESPN, for all of the balls-and-bats-loving public to bear witness. We saw one just this week, in fact, when respected L.A. Times columnist/untamed love machine Bill Plaschke told fellow veteran scribe Jackie MacMullan just how hot she was looking on the set of Around the Horn, in the most stilted and awkward of manners. It. Was. Hawt.

In honor of that tender moment, we’re bringing you the most notable and out-of-left-field overtures in sports. So sit back, dim the lights, and relax. Because it’s about to get freaky. And inappropriate.

Emphasis on inappropriate.

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