the blizzard morning: showered, semiformal, and checked like livestock
players are required to appear showered and semiformal and available for social intercourse with patrons. Some of them all but check our teeth.
Context
The Fundraiser gala shows the athletic body's other market: at the patrons' dance the players are "required to appear showered and semiformal and available for social intercourse with patrons," who "all but check our teeth." The image is livestock at auction — the developed junior body put on display for the alumni and donors whose money runs the place, inspected mouth and all. The body that gets drilled in private is also merchandise to be viewed, and the gala is where the two functions meet.