There are many ways to be macho on a football field. In “NFL Confidential: True Confessions From the Gutter of Football,” a player writing under the pen name Johnny Anonymous relates a method of expressing masculinity that fans might not have considered.
“For some guys, linemen especially,” he writes, urinating in your pants while on the field “is actually a thing, a sign that you’re so into the game, so much of a fighter” that you won’t pause to use the toilet. “You’d rather let it spill out all over your legs.”
This is demented. The upside, I suppose, is that you have marked your territory.