Tag Archives: afl

Football Really Can Be A Pain In The Ass

Football really can be a pain in the ass, apparently: I suspect they meant “annus” and not “anus”, don’t you think? It has been corrected in the article, but many lulz were had, especially when the photo looks like he might have been having some pain in that area! Special thanks to @trmash for the [...]

Bomber Chapters Of My Life

Having pulled off a series of inspirational wins in 2011, Essendon supporters have definitely gotten value for their money this year – and none was better than the gutsy defeat of the previously unbeaten Geelong several weeks ago, as shown below: Sitting in my usual seat, it came after a couple of difficult weeks in [...]

Live From A Little Earlier, Again!

Checking the Yahoo!7 TV Guide over the weekend, I came across a strange classification for an AFL match shown on Channel Ten: Could someone explain to me what a “Live Repeat” is? I’m not sure. Ironically, this game broadcast was neither “live” – after all, free-to-air channels refuse to show them live – and nor [...]

Collingwood Focused Pole Dancing

Whilst browsing through my regular news sources this morning, I stumbled on the following article in my hometown Ballarat Courier: Up the Poles for Charity Couldn’t help but notice the dancer at the bottom of the middle pole, wearing a Collingwood guernsey: Seems to be focussing on a really niche market, I would have thought? [...]

More AFL Mathematics Fail

Hot on the heels of this piece of fail from the AFL website, comes the latest: Melbourne – 12-10-73? Surely they mean 12-10-82? Brisbane – 11-4-57? I’m sure that’s actually 11-4-70? Geelong – 7-12-47? Got a feeling that’s 7-12-54! Port Adelaide – 2-6-17? Might be 2-6-18 perhaps? Also, the scores aren’t “live”, they are quite [...]

Footy Is Back – Maths Ability Is Not

Great to see that football is back for 2011, though some at the AFL have clearly started the new season without their mathematical abilities in tact: Surely Collingwood’s score of 12 goals and 2 behinds totals 74 points, and not 37? And surely Port Adelaide’s score of 3 goals and 5 behinds equals 23 points, [...]

The Mayor of Essendon Returns

In a fairly corny piece put together by Seven Nightly News in 1993, Mark Thompson was named “the new Mayor of Essendon” for a day, after captaining the Essendon Football Club to the 1993 AFL premiership. With the return of Thompson to Windy Hill in December as the senior assistant to new head coach James [...]

Gold Coast Wiggle Racing?

Are newly appointed Gold Coast assistant coach Andy Lovell, the blue Wiggle Anthony Field, and Mark Webber related, or the same person? You be the judge – our lines are open!