Footy on Good Friday

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Guys we've done the religious debate before in the GD forum. If you want to discuss it further bump that topic otherwise leave this one for discussion about footy please. Any further religious debates on this topic will be removed.
Does anyone know how other sports such as the NRL get around catering issues?

God bless you infidel pig.

[Psyber]

Disagree Pseudo with your justification, but I'll let it go.
I'd actually prefer no footy on Easter Sunday than Good Friday. Family commitments sees me never to attend a footy game on Easter Sunday ever again.
This got me thinking.
Hypothetically, if football season was over summer, would everyone's attitude be the same for footy on Christmas Day?

I think more people may believe in Father Christmas - certainly all the important people do, like the retailers and importers..
[I almost displayed my vintage by mentioning "manufacturers", but remembered we probably don't have any of them anymore.]

[Psyber]

I've never quite seen the sense of the prohibition about eating red meat on Fridays, even Good Friday. I know, vaguely, that it had some historical rationale.

For somebody who believes that a piece of wafer biscuit magically becomes the actual flesh and blood of a bloke who was his own father and walked the earth three days after dying, I'm sure that a ban on beef products on one specific day of the year makes perfect sense.

Oops, I started something by accident here, just like I did when I mentioned the meat visible in his Friday pastie to my friend at University...

[Gingernuts]

It doesn't really bother me, but I can't see why we can't have a day without footy.

Given that the reason we have the holiday is due to it's religious significance, I think that has some weight over what the day is used for.

After all, if the day no longer holds any significance to the wider population as everyone keeps posting, then why should it be a public holiday at all??

[Thiele]

Well West wants good Friday Football http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl ... 5850643124

[Adelaide Hawk]

It doesn't really bother me, but I can't see why we can't have a day without footy.

You and me both. I really have to wonder about people who can't have a day off and find something else to do besides going to the football.

[Turbo]

Good friday football should happen and will happen sooner rather than later I would expect. Time to get over it move on. Those than want to the footy can and those that don't won't. Pretty easy really

[HeartBeatsTrue]

Good friday football should happen and will happen sooner rather than later I would expect. Time to get over it move on. Those than want to the footy can and those that don't won't. Pretty easy really

It will happen. Its inevitable. Especially at AFL level. However if the SANFL decide to play games on Good Friday, the AFL will also take it up by then so there wont be any advantage compared to having games any other day on the weekend.

Question I have is why were there no games on Sat night, Sun night or Monday last weekend?

[JK]

It doesn't really bother me, but I can't see why we can't have a day without footy.

You and me both. I really have to wonder about people who can't have a day off and find something else to do besides going to the football.

It's because the pubs are shut

[Turbo]

Good friday football should happen and will happen sooner rather than later I would expect. Time to get over it move on. Those than want to the footy can and those that don't won't. Pretty easy really

It will happen. Its inevitable. Especially at AFL level. However if the SANFL decide to play games on Good Friday, the AFL will also take it up by then so there wont be any advantage compared to having games any other day on the weekend.

Question I have is why were there no games on Sat night, Sun night or Monday last weekend?

Good point