Michael E. Generalijust not footy
June 21st 2007 01:44
Well the kids ate it and more than 75% went into their mouths and not onto the floor. So as promised I will talk about foot ball. My team in the afl is saint Kilda and I have supported them since 1998. most people go for a team because of family tradition or because they grew up in that suburb. I only started watching football when I came to canberra and one of the first people I met here was a gothic Uruguayan Carlton supporter named Gonzalez (Gony) every Sunday we would take over his lounge room for the matches ( NRL and AFL ) and for the first while I was happy to get caught up in his enthusiasm and drink the afternoon away with no attachment to any team as the weeks went by I realised that in the presence of such a Carlton fan not having a team was a severe disadvantage. With no family team to follow, and no real local team either, I simply had to find one for any reason. During that year and especially on game day they were saturating the breaks with Tony Lockets advanced hair studios ad, he epitomised everything wrong with the image of that company for me ( but I am certainly not baldist I just think its unfortunate that the ads seemed to cheapen the idea of regaining hair down to a great way to meet the chicks and make yourself look good on a jet ski) so the first time I saw his team (Sydney swans for those who aren’t sure) play they faced up to the perpetual underdogs saint Kilda. I barracked for them of course and the game turned into blood bath with the swans going down by more than 100 points. Apart from that I think the saints appealed to me their big names Everett and gering looked like they would be just as comfortable threatening violence in a river side bar as inflicting damage to the hoity seeming egos of the clean cut swans. that year the saints reached the lofty heights of no. 2 on the ladder by mid season, only to finish in a convincing middle of the bottom eight. And they have recently pretty much continued to show hope and come short often but I still support them and will be forever grateful to Tony “ plugger (hair plugs)” locket for helping pick my team.
I have the night off tonight and with the weather so crap it is almost definitely soup weather but I am also waiting to hear back from a mate to see if he wants to go to dinner 2 nite or Friday either way I am going to a place called “a bite to eat” so my next post will be a review for what has become a dining institution in the unlikely suburb of Chifley. Post ya soon, Dave
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