Over the weekend, Joachim Loew's hand took an exciting journey through his trousers and then up to his nose and because he chose to do this during a soccer match broadcasted to millions across the world, we were all party to the wild ride. It was, to use a technical term, gross. But dudes are generally gross, so was this specific instance of a dude being gross egregious, or just the perfect storm of grossness and high-definition technology? According to the Germany manager's winger, Lukas Podolski, it's the latter."About 80 percent of you here have at some point scratched your balls," Podolski told reporters on Tuesday, amid loud laughter and applause. "It is not an issue in the team."Part of me wants to agree with Podolski here; if you have balls, you have scratched them. That's indisputable. You have probably also scratched your ass. But Podolski is ignoring a key step in the process, which is the slow, deliberate trek from balls/ass to nose. That is tougher to defend. To be fair, lots of guys have probably done that too, but lots of people also eat at Golden Corral, so, you know, ubiquity is not all it's cracked up to be.I bet there have even been a fair number of people who have scratched their balls and sniffed their fingers while watching a soccer match, but they save these revolting moments for the privacy of their own home, not sitting on the bench during Euro 2016. So, Podolski has a point, but the confluence of events in this specific case make it difficult to come to any conclusion other than this impeccably fashionable man is also impeccably disgusting.