by therisingblues » Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:37 pm
Voice wrote:Would love to go and see this one but I've got a 3 month ban from AAMI because I swore at the Elimination Final. No wonder the SANFL is dying

with Weslo and the Police handing out these stupid bans for petty things. I tried to show them how many others from the crowd were swearing but I guess they recognised me as a former cheer squad member even though I was 100m away from the cheersquad

That reminds me. In the 1985 Elimination Final, Merv Keane's first final with Sturt. Our intrepid Cheer Squad leader, one of the most well-presented, responsible, well-organised blokes to have ever gone through the S.C.S and one of the nicest blokes you'd ever want to meet, expressed a bit of frustration at the Cheer Squad at just the wrong time. After a half-hearted "Double Blues, cha, cha, cha" that went for just three rounds, the Cheer Squad Leader (here nameless) says, not aggressively, almost conversationally but just a bit too loud, "Cheer! **** yas!"
Two coppers were patrolling the boundary line at the time, one of them game him the big wrigging-worm-finger, the coppers' universal gesture for "Come here". Bang, out he went, one of the most well-behaved SCS leaders ever gets kicked out of his last game for saying "**** yas!"
In response, everyone in the SCS (possibly about 150 people) got out a 20 cent piece and scratched across the grooves of the old aluminum seats at Footy Park, creating a huge racket, when that failed to get results (red coats and coppers just watched the scene from the walkway) they did a "Get ******" chant, but the coppers and red-coats had decided that one person getting kicked out for swearing was enough by that stage.
I'm gonna sit back, crack the top off a Pale Ale, and watch the Double Blues prevail
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