There Can Be Only One (757 hits)
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Submitted by Awko (View user info) at 2005-05-09 11:10:26 EDT
As many of us may very well know, here on our giant blue/green globe, most people will follow a sport commonly known as "football". And many a man regularly makes the trek to a sporting venue or to a nearby couch to partake in an event known as "watching the footy".
Watching the footy is a revered tradition that is passed down from generation to generation. It can be done by people of all ages, genders, races and religions. It can be done as part of a social event or on one's lonesome. It can be done at a small local club with maybe 50 other people watching or at a huge-arse stadium with tens of thousands of people.
But what has embedded this sub-concious desire to watch a bunch of grown men running around in the cold in shorts while chasing a leather/synthetic ball around?
Perhaps it goes back to the days when communities were known as tribes, and each tribe had to prove its worth by pitting a chosen few tribe members in tests of manliness with members of other tribes, and that would be their entertainment for the day. And maybe each of these tribes lived in different reigons, and each of these regions had its own set of rules and regulations to how the manliness should be tested. And newcomers to each reigons chosen contests would be confused to all these differences.
I can just imagine some of the thoughts pondered by these newcomers...
"How come these guys get armour in their game?"
"Wheres the net?"
"Haha, they have funny shaped balls"
And, "You know what? I could go me some overpriced junk food right about now."
These questions, and many more are still being pondered to this very day, only now we sit on moulded plastic seats instead of tree stumps, we eat buckets of hot chips instead of rocks and drink beer instead of downing the blood of the losing team.
Anyhoo, this kinda in a roundabout, non-direct, philosophical manner brings me to my question.. What is your preferred code of football? And give me some reasons why.
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2005-05-09 12:52:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This looks more like smear the queer than football.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-05-09 12:42:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
highlander = auto +2
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-05-09 12:40:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Very true.
I'm relying on the inertia of history though. They have to make a fifth final.
Submitted by Awko (user info) at 2005-05-09 12:20:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm not sure if the lions will make it this year. The season has been way too unpredictable so far.
Submitted by Awko (user info) at 2005-05-09 12:12:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Yeah, I'm kinda torn between union and Aussie rules, with my Mum being from South Africa and my Dads side of the family all growing up and around North Melbourne.
I used to play rugby but had to stop after ruining my knee so bad I couldn't last more than 10 minutes on field without having to be helped off after getting tackled or having a scrum collapse awkwardly.
I miss it so much.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-05-09 11:55:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Rugby Union, but anyway - the Lions are going to a fifth grand final this year.
Submitted by hobbs (user info) at 2005-05-09 11:24:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No football is good football.