I'm a fan of the ole, "chewy on ya boot" just prior to the opposition kick.
If we're not doing well on one television, I go into another room and watch the game on another TV.
Hmmm .... Essendon on TV.
Ten observations on my viewing habits:
- I get "Essendon hair" from running my hands through / pulling at my hair, especially when we lose.
- My son likes to imitate me watching the footy ... it's like someone with Tourette's.
- When the opposition have a shot at goal I leave the room / go for a walk around the house.
- Sometimes I throw the remote on the ground then pick it up, then change channel, then change it straight back again. For some years now this has been known as the "Henneman manoeuvre"
- I commentate in fits and starts (see 2)
- Ritual for Essendon goal: fist pump, loud applause, victory walk around the living room
- Ritual for opposition goal: deep breath, sip of beer, followed occasionally by the Henneman manoeuvre (see 4, above)
- I drink beer (Melbourne, in cans)
- If we're playing like crap I go outside and have a cigarette and refuse to watch .... except that I can't help it and end up watching it through the window
- I try to post on Blitz but generally can't keep up
Normally about 15 bundys and a packet of winfield gold
Usually when we are on TV, its interstate and the game is over by half way through the 2nd quarter. I'm normally at the Rose Tavern.
As Mzungu or some such spud puts through a romping, nail in the coffin goal at the 22nd minute mark of the second quarter, I usually slam the rest of my pint and walk out.
I then check my phone for the first 10 minutes after half time to see if there has been some kind of a comeback, which there never is. I walk the block a few times to take out my anger, tell myself that its just footy and that there is more to life and then I go home.
I just switch off and watch the 2001 comeback game instead…
Just the usual few stubbies, fist pumps, yelling at umps and commentators.
I don't think that's unusual, probably the standard for most.
Hmmm .... Essendon on TV.
Ten observations on my viewing habits:
10. I try to post on Blitz but generally can't keep up
Nup. Spoils a win or compounds the frustration if we are losing.
Anyhow, post ends up being 3 pages out of context by the time it hits the screen.
I always try and jinx the opposition player going for goal. Usually goes along the lines of,
"Gunston, watch him slot it. He never misses"
This was something I used to do younger. When we were winning a game, I tried not to move from my sitting position until the end of the quarter. I tried holding off from toilet breaks until breaks in play.
Hand shandys when JOE DAN is having a blinder
Hand shandys when JOE DAN is having a blinder
You're missing the point of the thread - it's listing things that are unusual
Great thread.
I don't ever think I am any different to any other time, but obviously I am .
My dog who is like my shadow, does not want to know me when I am watching us play on TV.
She runs to the walk in robe, lays down with her paws near her ears and will not come out til it's over, not at quarter time, half time or 3/4 time and she goes there ten minutes before the start of play.
Normally do anything I can to be at the game to avoid watching on TV, absolutely hate it.
If we're getting flogged on TV though I'll normally just sit on the couch in a form of paralysis exerting little emotion as we get 10 straight kicked on us, don't bat an eyelid, don't move a muscle, just stare and wonder why bad things happen to good people.
Ever tried to give the ciggies away during footy season.impossible.Normally about 15 bundys and a packet of winfield gold
I can’t stand watching essendon on TV. I think its coz you dont get that full ground perspective that you feel completely out of control, not that i can do much sat the ground. But at least you can see ahead and have some idea of how the play is going to unfold. Close games have me mentally drained by the end.
Hand shandys when JOE DAN is having a blinder
You're missing the point of the thread - it's listing things that are unusual
LOL. Well played
always watch the replays when we win it's a tradition we sit their like we don't know what happened and get excited all over again
when watching games live when the team is playing interstate my brother goes full retard ,, I'm usually the quiet one.. I was at all interstate matches this year so i didn't get to see him go full retard but I'm sure he still does.
Throw up if the game is close.
I'm not even joking.
It's only happened at a game once.
For a while I have been turning the sound off when we are taking a set shot. I also try to look away until the ball is in the air. Weird but we need some sort of voodoo to get rid of the damn kicking yips.
Refuse to look at my computer or phone when the game's on, only use them during the breaks. Can't let my lack of concentration affect the team, obviously.