That was the joke though, that this entire team of football players have opinions on romcoms.
And I think it's much better than just having one person. It portrays having interests outside of "manly" stuff as surprisingly common and normal, even among football players. Whereas if it were just one of them, it would basically just be "that one weirdo".
Or to put it another way: with one person it's jokes on him for being different, with everyone it's jokes on you for having narrow expectations.
Idk I think in a ton of cases these jokes are still just reinforcing those expectations by driving things into absurdity.
Like instead of a few guys having these interests and it being fine and normal, its the whole team being into stuff entirely opposite of the usual expectation and the joke is how absurd and unbelievable it is.
That was the joke though, that this entire team of football players have opinions on romcoms.
And I think it's much better than just having one person. It portrays having interests outside of "manly" stuff as surprisingly common and normal, even among football players. Whereas if it were just one of them, it would basically just be "that one weirdo".
Or to put it another way: with one person it's jokes on him for being different, with everyone it's jokes on you for having narrow expectations.
Idk I think in a ton of cases these jokes are still just reinforcing those expectations by driving things into absurdity.
Like instead of a few guys having these interests and it being fine and normal, its the whole team being into stuff entirely opposite of the usual expectation and the joke is how absurd and unbelievable it is.