Friday Night Football
On Friday night I decided to take in a game of CFL, yeah I know it's supposed to be a joke.....and it kind of was but I still had a great time. OK and it's not the football that I found a joke it was just well pretty much everything else.
So it was kind of weird from the start, kick off was at 7pm and the gates opened at 5pm which even though everyone had set seats I assumed people would turn up at around 5. So anyway by the time I get my act together I got there by six and there was only like 50 people in the whole stadium!! So yeah I though it was kind of strange that the majority of people didn't turn up until 15 minutes before the game started. Secondly when the players come on, two thirds of the team come on and then the starting line up run on one at a time and are announced sepratly, and if your lucky enough to be on the home team you get to run through shooting sparkly firework things and they do the boxing calls like the BC LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIONS!!!
Oh yeah anouther weird thing was the fans, o.k so I got an uber good seats on the 50 yards line 11 rows back on the home team side in the drinking zone. Right so you would expect to be sitting next to like hard core drunk abusive guys with there faces painted and yelling abuse at the umpire!! Nope pentioners, in fact the whole crowed was super tame in fact the only time they started booing was when they had a catch the ball comp and the ball machine broke down. Which brings me to the final weird football thing. What is with all the extra entertainment crap. No wonder people have a short attention span, heaven forbid we would have to sit there for three minutes while an injurned player was being attended to or the umpires where confering over a decision oh no not at the CFL. So anytime the game stopped for more than 30 seconds they would have entertainmen which involved things like fans dressing up as coffee cups and running an obsitical course or racing to make giant plastic subway sandwiches (this one actually held the game up, it was so funny watching the players standing there while the officials tried to round up the giant onions and capsicum) and finally the one thing I would be ashamed partake at any australian sporting even, oh yes put your hands together for a verse or two of "If your happy and you know it"!! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!!
Still as I said the football was great to watch, probably not up to the yanks standard but there was some great plays and a couple of huge runs, plus most of the touch downs where pretty good, ones of the long passes that just look so good. Oh and the stadium is something else all I oculd think of was how kick arse it would be to play hockey in there, the pitch is about the right size to. I'm sure people would come see us if we had fireworks and obsitcal courses. :P
So it was kind of weird from the start, kick off was at 7pm and the gates opened at 5pm which even though everyone had set seats I assumed people would turn up at around 5. So anyway by the time I get my act together I got there by six and there was only like 50 people in the whole stadium!! So yeah I though it was kind of strange that the majority of people didn't turn up until 15 minutes before the game started. Secondly when the players come on, two thirds of the team come on and then the starting line up run on one at a time and are announced sepratly, and if your lucky enough to be on the home team you get to run through shooting sparkly firework things and they do the boxing calls like the BC LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIONS!!!
Oh yeah anouther weird thing was the fans, o.k so I got an uber good seats on the 50 yards line 11 rows back on the home team side in the drinking zone. Right so you would expect to be sitting next to like hard core drunk abusive guys with there faces painted and yelling abuse at the umpire!! Nope pentioners, in fact the whole crowed was super tame in fact the only time they started booing was when they had a catch the ball comp and the ball machine broke down. Which brings me to the final weird football thing. What is with all the extra entertainment crap. No wonder people have a short attention span, heaven forbid we would have to sit there for three minutes while an injurned player was being attended to or the umpires where confering over a decision oh no not at the CFL. So anytime the game stopped for more than 30 seconds they would have entertainmen which involved things like fans dressing up as coffee cups and running an obsitical course or racing to make giant plastic subway sandwiches (this one actually held the game up, it was so funny watching the players standing there while the officials tried to round up the giant onions and capsicum) and finally the one thing I would be ashamed partake at any australian sporting even, oh yes put your hands together for a verse or two of "If your happy and you know it"!! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!!
Still as I said the football was great to watch, probably not up to the yanks standard but there was some great plays and a couple of huge runs, plus most of the touch downs where pretty good, ones of the long passes that just look so good. Oh and the stadium is something else all I oculd think of was how kick arse it would be to play hockey in there, the pitch is about the right size to. I'm sure people would come see us if we had fireworks and obsitcal courses. :P
posted by Kate at
1:23 PM
1 Comments:
Wow... what a performance! That is totally different to AFL and probably totally different to any sporting event you would ever experience in Australia. I want to go to Canada now just to go to a game! Although I guess the US would be pretty similiar - perhaps more hyped up (if possible). And Pensioners??? That is not what you would expect! Maybe we're just used to Australian yobbos and they're the people who keep the pensioners away!
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