[Glenn Epic]

For anyone who's not Australian, State of Origin is a rugby game in which Queensland and NSW battle it out in a 3 round duel.

National Rugy League (NRL) is a simple game. Firstly a player procures the ball, runs and falls down. Simple? No, there's more. If a player is to fall down in an allocated area its a try a.k.a. goal.

What's even better than the game, however, is the fans. In lieu of such extraordinary gents I shall begin my list of Origin observations. One such observation came in the early minutes of the game. A hairy NSW fan caught my eye as he danced around, fingers quick as a whip, strumming out a tune on his air-guitar. What made this odd is that it was not, in fact, his team that had scored the try. Apparently air-guitar takes no sides.

I also noted a particularly odd ritual. When a team scores a goal it's necessary, if arms length permits, to hit nearby walls. It's also necessary to revert to Neanderthal mentality. The latter doesn't merely apply to when a try is scored, it kicks in the second you call yourself an NRL fan.

I could go on but for lack of motivation I shall sum up by way of comparison.

First, I'll take your standard game... say soccer. Soccer is simple: A goal is scored, supporters cheer.

Second, NRL. A try is scored, supporters boo, later on supporters realise they scored, supporters cheer. Watching an NRL match is kind of like watching a movie with bad lip sync.

Oh! I didn't just say that!

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Originally Posted by Glennsie

A hairy NSW fan caught my eye as he danced around, fingers quick as a whip, strumming out a tune on his air-guitar.

But I thought you liked girls? Well, whatever rocks your boat, mate.

[Squinky]

I could never imagine liking or disliking an entire gender.

[Catbert]

Originally Posted by Squinky

I could never imagine liking or disliking an entire gender.

If you say you do it with women I'll go crazy

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

Originally Posted by Catbert

If you say you do it with women I'll go crazy

She's not doing it with either at the moment.

(Or would 'any' be may appropriate than 'either? Yes, we can accept that there are more than two shades of 'gender'.)

We now return you to the sports thread, which is already in progress.

[Catbert]

Please, tell us more.

[Trader]

Originally Posted by Glenn Epic

For anyone who's not Australian, State of Origin is a rugby game in which Queensland and NSW battle it out in a 3 round duel.

National Rugy League (NRL) is a simple game. Firstly a player procures the ball, runs and falls down. Simple? No, there's more. If a player is to fall down in an allocated area its a try a.k.a. goal.

What's even better than the game, however, is the fans. In lieu of such extraordinary gents I shall begin my list of Origin observations. One such observation came in the early minutes of the game. A hairy NSW fan caught my eye as he danced around, fingers quick as a whip, strumming out a tune on his air-guitar. What made this odd is that it was not, in fact, his team that had scored the try. Apparently air-guitar takes no sides.

I also noted a particularly odd ritual. When a team scores a goal it's necessary, if arms length permits, to hit nearby walls. It's also necessary to revert to Neanderthal mentality. The latter doesn't merely apply to when a try is scored, it kicks in the second you call yourself an NRL fan.

I could go on but for lack of motivation I shall sum up by way of comparison.

First, I'll take your standard game... say soccer. Soccer is simple: A goal is scored, supporters cheer.

Second, NRL. A try is scored, supporters boo, later on supporters realise they scored, supporters cheer. Watching an NRL match is kind of like watching a movie with bad lip sync.

Oh! I didn't just say that!

I agree, but I must say I do enjoy watching the stupidity on and off the field, I also enjoy watching the Glory play [well I use to unti I had to start working weekends], and those boys in the SHED got upto allsorts of mishief...but again I enjoyed watching.