Why is everyone here so against a national sport made right here on our very soil? How very proud of our nations history are we?. Oh its so very terrible to see so much footy on the television is it? why don’t you turn it off and go for a walk!? better yet! kick a footy around?. But why kick a footy around? Maybe because it brings thousands of people together, away from their stressful lives, and they can realx and enjoy watching their favourite team kick a goal. In comparison with say england and spain whose soccer players are treated as mere immortals, i believe we aren’t half as bad with our views on sport as they are. So lets try something different for 2009, get off to a great start eh? Lets enjoy the joys of footy and have a laugh. We are all on this world for a very short time, so lets enojoy what helps make Australia so unique to the rest of the world.
Adam you’re probably one of those knobs walking around in a pink shirt with a popped collar. I’m also willing to bet you have a faux-hawk and own a pair of those white pointy toed shoes. You think Ben Cousins is a ‘legend’ and your girlfriend is a brittle piece of peroxide with fake nails. Shut up.
Bring on the meeting of like minds with the anti football league. God the season is only a few weeks old and I have had enough already. The Herald Sun must pray for the season to start so that they have something to print on the front pages.
Flashback:
Brett, in comment 104 said:
How ironic that your acronym mirrors that of the Australian Football League.
Now, I’m Fijian and don’t know much about this game but…
The Australian Football League changed its name from the VFL in the 90’s. The AntiFootballLeague has it’s origins in 1967 and has kept its original name. Hmmm…
If Brett was such a fan of the game maybe he would like to research it a bit before making a fool of himself?
About time that someone recognises that AFL is simply a tool to deliver advertising to the masses. AFL is a product now just like any, and those obsessed are simply brainwashed consumers. Who gives a rats ass who wins or now. What difference will it make to your day or your life. You have been taken for fools, and you are if you cannot see what is going on.
I’m so sick of football coverage on the TV. I find it astounding that so much air time is dedicated to football when so many of the players are such outstandlingly poor social role models. I look forward to the day when news bulletins feature brilliant artists, intellects and scientists instead of mindless footballers.
Although I and my partner do not follow football, recently my partner’s 10 year old child came home declaring that she now follows carlton because her friend and her friend’s dad are fanatical carlton supporters. I am very angry that this man has brainwashed the child into following afl. I try to tell her that this is not right, but she receives so many ‘mixed messages’ from TV combined with her attempt to make friends to ‘fit in’, that it’s become an impossible situation. I am so upset that she has started to ‘worship’ such poor role models such as that public urinating Frevola (sp?). No matter how much I try to protect her from such discgusting role models, it’s impossible when their friends parents insist on football brainwashing – instilling fear that she will not be able to make friends if she does’nt. I think that this situation is outrageous, and the ‘footy religion’ has has a lot to answer for.
Thank God you’re back! I’ve been a faithful member for 40 years! Fully paid up when possible and continuing to sport the badge and ear-rings on inappropriate occasions. I think I still have the pattern for the AFL scarf.
I hold all organized Religions in contempt!! Australian Rules is just one more and its adherents, the media being the worst are hell bent on ramming this game down everyones throat.
I find it very insulting when world breaking news is discarded from the front news pages when some bimbo wife of a pig skin kicker spawns an offspring!!! By the way more people play netball than footy!!
Some years ago I had what felt like the 20th guy walk into my office in a row with the only conversation point being the game the previous Saturday… or the one the next Saturday.
At that point I finally gave up: I looked him in the eye and said ‘Sorry mate, couldn’t give a rat’s rissole about footy.’
He was completely stuffed regarding anything else to talk about; I had the best ever sense of relief at abandoning the pretence that I actually care about footy for once.
And that is something the Footynazies infiltrating this forum will never understand.
Thank God I’ve found this site. The cheque is in the mail.
Just heard on the radio that the state government has assigned 30 Million dollars to upgrade the holy MCG yet again. I must admit I have often pondered how much of my taxes have now gone into this infernal building. Like it or not fellow anti-football fans, we do contribute to this futile, vacuous and ridiculous GAME whether we like it or not. Yet another indication of how far this insidious disease has spread.
But make no mistake, this is not an acknowledgement of the dreaded game by the Government, it’s intended to capture (very expensive) votes from individuals that are incapable of thinking outside of the football fug in which they reside. Then again there is a state election coming up – is there a connection here?
clearly you guys are using your time well trying to bring down a 500 million dollar organization which provides happiness to thousands of Australians through community programs and charity sponsorships good work i say
You’re referring to a group whose members have spent $10 (some of which also goes to charity) on a lapel pin of a square football… and it’s a threat to a half-billion-dollar industry????
The “500 million dollar organization” merely keeps the masses distracted, after all, we are a little short on lions these days.
It is just a business which I choose to ignore as much as possible.
It doesn’t take much to understand that the Australian Football League remains a large corporation, with the clandestine intent of making and generating income. The “game” is purely a side issue and the product, with which it generates its income. Many large corporations support charity whilst hiding the true motive – to appear to be benefactors whilst at the same time directly promoting their product, all with the aim of generating more income. If one looks beneath the veneer, one will see how much manipulation is taking place. The amount of income being generated just goes to show how effective this manipulation works on the unsuspecting masses.
OK, my big rap about this is: How come so many millions go into the football industry each year and almost nothing goes into the arts. Look at the VCA! All we need is $6m a year, and the government aren’t prepared to fork it out. IT’S POO CHANGE. As if the government is cool to throw $30m at the money-hungry stupid arse MCG but not give a bit to the VCA when it’s clear that the city of Melbourne, in fact, the nation, isn’t happy with it!
You people sit there and wine about how much you hate football, leave the room, turn your tv off, go for a walk, skip the sports section in the newspaper. Nothing is making you read about it or watch it. The game makes heaps of people happy, and for you small group of people who dislike it, go do something else, rather than ruin other people fun.
Elle, you appear to have completely missed the point darling. Noone would care if AFL commanded a few pages in the sports section of the papers or a Sunday afternoon TV time-slot. The issue here is that this silly game has infriltrated every known media space – whether it be the front page, lead news article or radio topic. It’s incessant, grating and impossible to avoid.
For the rest of you true Anti-Football Zealots, be at the North Fitzroy Star Hotel this Saturday for the next planning meeting, to work out how we’re going to disrupt and DESTROY football over the next year, and cause untold misery for football supporters everywhere!!!
This is the official unofficial Anti-Football lunch, from midday onwards, same location as the official AF League event last year, but no need to buy tickets.
Would be handy to know how many are coming, contact Greg Keogh on 9584 4829 or greg@mira.net
I have long discovered that escaping the dreaded game is just not that simple. It’s basically impossible to watch television without being reminded of the dreaded game. It is continually promoted on the radio. The newspaper’s front pages are often plastered with it, people continually want to talk about it, it is often used in reference to totally disconnected issues, no it’s practically impossible to avoid.
If the same amount of promotion was employed on some other product, and rammed down your throat at every turn, then we would most likely see a revolt right across the country until it stopped. Propaganda, and mass hysteria is what I call it. Be careful now, the last infamous person to utilize propaganda and mass hysteria finished up starting World War II.
Elle,
I think it’s YOU who ’sit’ there, watching, watching and watching.
TV? wouldn’t it be great to switch the channel – but hey! There is sport on every station.
Sports ’section’? Ha! what a laugh! It makes the front page even though it is clearly NOT news!
We are NOT a small group, we are the MAJORITY.
The statistics speak for themselves.
Do your own research: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/39433889d406eeb9ca2570610019e9a5/0a11bab1c3b902cbca2574520010a53a!OpenDocument
We have ZERO chance of changing the minds of you lot! All we want is some sensible balance.
You have the misapprehension that it’s possible for the disinterested to avoid what is flogged ad nauseum on every TV news every night, as well as midweek football shows (not to mention the ads in between).
There’s also every newspaper where any actual news content is secondary to the crap in the back.
Then there’s radio (same as TV). And let’s not forget posters, billboards, coasters, stubby coolers, schoolbags, ties, clothes, towels, key rings, quilt covers, brew mugs, stickers, fridge magnets, school stationery…. need I continue?
In all cases some moron’s groin strain, drug / booze problem, or glassing / punchup is apparently at least as important as world events that actually matter.
Or it’s some coach sacking, or tribunal outcome, or some other football thing about which I could not care less.
Rather than leave what is MY room I want to stay and let football leave. I’d also like to read or walk in a football-free manner without having to go to Heard Island to achieve it.
Why is it that some stupid organisation is trying to ruin the happiness of so much Australians who enjoy watching/playing Football.
You guys should honestly get a life and stop bagging footy, because more and more people are liking it as each day goes, and you can’t do anything about it
It seems totally sacrilegious to say it, but I am sick of the wall to wall cult which is AFL.
You can’t escape it, it’s everywhere. Its adherents, who are many, are so indoctrinated into the ways of the cult, that even the slightest sign of opposition or even disinterest in their beliefs is met with at least puzzlement up to outright aggression.
Its time this cult was exposed for the brainwashing, moneygathering nonsense it really is.
Everyone is entitled to follow a sport but not when it begins to take over an entire society.
Typical national news line up.
1. Some footy ‘role model’ caught in sex romp/drugs scandal/drunken tirade (delete as applicable).
2. some unfortunate had their washing stolen from their line in an outer suburb.
3. Two million people die in typhoon somewhere in Asia.
I have only now discovered your website – I am so pleased to know that there are others in the world who find football, and presumably, rugby offensive.
I understand that it has been proved scientifically that approximately 75% of people will make a decision that their own logic tells them in wrong if they sense that the correct decision will be unacceptable to the mob.
For 75% of people the desire for acceptance is greater than their desire to be correct. They don’t care what they do and will follow and do anything as long as it makes them part of the gang.
Herd behaviour, Mob rule, Pack journalism, Groupthink, call it whatever, is a weakness in humans that has had terrible consequences.
How could Christianity commit such a dastardly deeds over the millennia, from the 4th century, slaughter of Arians, Gnostics and Pagans, the murder of Hypatia by saint Cyril, thousands of murders over many hundreds of years, the inquisition when mobs of Christians were delighted to perpetrated awful deeds. How could a seemingly intelligent, reasonable and educated people such as the Germans, have allowed the Nazis to get out of control in the 1930’s & 40’s?
How could, usually decent , Australians pay a lot of money to watch a government backed pack of rapists, drug addicts and thugs chase a ball around a field?
A Yale educated psychologist defines it as: “A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members’ strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.”
- it’s the people who are fixated on football at the expense of any other field of human endeavour. Not quite what I’d call a full life.
- it’d the people who make ‘heroes’ out of morons whose ability to play football is apparently far more important than their lack of functionality as actual human beings… starting with their inability to hold their grog in a civilised manner.
- it’s the people who are quite happy to be exploited by a half-billion dollar industry…. for what?
As losers go, regret you therefore probably qualify.
As for ruining other people’s happiness… again let’s be clear: the issue is *not* stopping those who enjoy footy from doing so – it’s about not having footy shoved down *anyone else’s* throat morning, noon and night.
Re having a life – see my comment 33. Would love your explanation as to where I have it wrong.
As for not watching AFL… my comment 27 refers. Trust me – if we could we would, but the media’s footy fixation at the expense of virtually *every* other field of human endeavour makes it impossible to avoid.
It seems footynazies such as yourself even resent footy-free oases such as this website.
In reply to Tom Loincloth and James, those of us whose lives don’t revolve around football have other things to do such as working on Saturday. At least I was being paid to be out in the cold unlike you people who spend hours lining up in the cold then forking out huge sums of money for the privilege to watch a group of overpaid tossers run around in the wet and the cold. I didn’t have to stress out about not getting GF tickets like all of you fools. And As for James comment about 99252 watching. I am sure just as many if not more didn’t watch this boring game.
Season’s over now guys so what will you do now for the next six months, take up knitting?
“That still leaves 22 million plus people in Australia (or the 6.8 billion on the rest of the planet) who didn’t.”
Oh I’m pretty sure more than 1 million people watched footy mate
Probably around 10 million people watch footy around Aus, or even more, and if it isn’t football its rugby, so more than 18 million follow either of the 2 sports.
“Season’s over now guys so what will you do now for the next six months, take up knitting?”
Dean
My life doesnt revolve around football. I enjoy watching it , live or on television. Australia is proud of its sporting history and traditions, and to
say our national game is “boring”, played by ‘Tossers” and watched by “fools” sound like the words of a spiteful, narrow-minded and ignorant person. Not to mention somewhat unpatriotic. If you want to be ‘Anti’ anything try Anti Drugs or Anti Child Abuse or something. Leave footy alone. Its fun and entertaining for some people.
Regards
Tom Shackcloth
What people in the southern states often don’t realise that the vast majority of NSW and QLD couldn’t care less about AFL. How can people get excited about scoring a point for missing? I mean, most of the time, you know who has won by half time anyway. I really tried to give it a go, but alas, fell asleep.
FOOTBALL is played with a round ball, and the sooner it takes over here in OZ, the better off we will all be.
“idontlikefootball” don’t correct my post please, I might be replying to something 2 months old but… please your correct your name, if you bothered to correct the grammar in my post then I’m pretty sure you could have been bothered to fix the grammar error in your name.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Why is everyone here so against a national sport made right here on our very soil? How very proud of our nations history are we?. Oh its so very terrible to see so much footy on the television is it? why don’t you turn it off and go for a walk!? better yet! kick a footy around?. But why kick a footy around? Maybe because it brings thousands of people together, away from their stressful lives, and they can realx and enjoy watching their favourite team kick a goal. In comparison with say england and spain whose soccer players are treated as mere immortals, i believe we aren’t half as bad with our views on sport as they are. So lets try something different for 2009, get off to a great start eh? Lets enjoy the joys of footy and have a laugh. We are all on this world for a very short time, so lets enojoy what helps make Australia so unique to the rest of the world.
March 11th, 2009 at 10:26 am
So when can we return to sanity with this so-called pre-season footymania ? Due we have to have our own AFL pre-season ?
March 28th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Adam you’re probably one of those knobs walking around in a pink shirt with a popped collar. I’m also willing to bet you have a faux-hawk and own a pair of those white pointy toed shoes. You think Ben Cousins is a ‘legend’ and your girlfriend is a brittle piece of peroxide with fake nails. Shut up.
April 16th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Bring on the meeting of like minds with the anti football league. God the season is only a few weeks old and I have had enough already. The Herald Sun must pray for the season to start so that they have something to print on the front pages.
April 26th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Flashback:
Brett, in comment 104 said:
How ironic that your acronym mirrors that of the Australian Football League.
Now, I’m Fijian and don’t know much about this game but…
The Australian Football League changed its name from the VFL in the 90’s. The AntiFootballLeague has it’s origins in 1967 and has kept its original name. Hmmm…
If Brett was such a fan of the game maybe he would like to research it a bit before making a fool of himself?
…Just a thought
May 4th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
About time that someone recognises that AFL is simply a tool to deliver advertising to the masses. AFL is a product now just like any, and those obsessed are simply brainwashed consumers. Who gives a rats ass who wins or now. What difference will it make to your day or your life. You have been taken for fools, and you are if you cannot see what is going on.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
The AFL is hell-bent on shoving another team down our throats in Sydney – another team which no one wants. I say get lost AFL.
May 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Hahaha you guys are a sad sack of shit.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:31 pm
I’m so sick of football coverage on the TV. I find it astounding that so much air time is dedicated to football when so many of the players are such outstandlingly poor social role models. I look forward to the day when news bulletins feature brilliant artists, intellects and scientists instead of mindless footballers.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Although I and my partner do not follow football, recently my partner’s 10 year old child came home declaring that she now follows carlton because her friend and her friend’s dad are fanatical carlton supporters. I am very angry that this man has brainwashed the child into following afl. I try to tell her that this is not right, but she receives so many ‘mixed messages’ from TV combined with her attempt to make friends to ‘fit in’, that it’s become an impossible situation. I am so upset that she has started to ‘worship’ such poor role models such as that public urinating Frevola (sp?). No matter how much I try to protect her from such discgusting role models, it’s impossible when their friends parents insist on football brainwashing – instilling fear that she will not be able to make friends if she does’nt. I think that this situation is outrageous, and the ‘footy religion’ has has a lot to answer for.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 am
Thank God you’re back! I’ve been a faithful member for 40 years! Fully paid up when possible and continuing to sport the badge and ear-rings on inappropriate occasions. I think I still have the pattern for the AFL scarf.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I hold all organized Religions in contempt!! Australian Rules is just one more and its adherents, the media being the worst are hell bent on ramming this game down everyones throat.
I find it very insulting when world breaking news is discarded from the front news pages when some bimbo wife of a pig skin kicker spawns an offspring!!! By the way more people play netball than footy!!
July 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I have just discovered this site. Finally I know I’m not alone in this sport obsessed world! Thankyou guys! Thankyou so much!
July 20th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Yeah? Well, if football’s so bad; how come you’re all fat?
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Some years ago I had what felt like the 20th guy walk into my office in a row with the only conversation point being the game the previous Saturday… or the one the next Saturday.
At that point I finally gave up: I looked him in the eye and said ‘Sorry mate, couldn’t give a rat’s rissole about footy.’
He was completely stuffed regarding anything else to talk about; I had the best ever sense of relief at abandoning the pretence that I actually care about footy for once.
And that is something the Footynazies infiltrating this forum will never understand.
Thank God I’ve found this site. The cheque is in the mail.
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 am
Just heard on the radio that the state government has assigned 30 Million dollars to upgrade the holy MCG yet again. I must admit I have often pondered how much of my taxes have now gone into this infernal building. Like it or not fellow anti-football fans, we do contribute to this futile, vacuous and ridiculous GAME whether we like it or not. Yet another indication of how far this insidious disease has spread.
But make no mistake, this is not an acknowledgement of the dreaded game by the Government, it’s intended to capture (very expensive) votes from individuals that are incapable of thinking outside of the football fug in which they reside. Then again there is a state election coming up – is there a connection here?
September 10th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
clearly you guys are using your time well trying to bring down a 500 million dollar organization which provides happiness to thousands of Australians through community programs and charity sponsorships good work i say
September 11th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
You’re referring to a group whose members have spent $10 (some of which also goes to charity) on a lapel pin of a square football… and it’s a threat to a half-billion-dollar industry????
Just a bit paranoid perchance?
September 12th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
The “500 million dollar organization” merely keeps the masses distracted, after all, we are a little short on lions these days.
It is just a business which I choose to ignore as much as possible.
Now archery,,, there’s a game with history ,,,
September 14th, 2009 at 9:21 am
It doesn’t take much to understand that the Australian Football League remains a large corporation, with the clandestine intent of making and generating income. The “game” is purely a side issue and the product, with which it generates its income. Many large corporations support charity whilst hiding the true motive – to appear to be benefactors whilst at the same time directly promoting their product, all with the aim of generating more income. If one looks beneath the veneer, one will see how much manipulation is taking place. The amount of income being generated just goes to show how effective this manipulation works on the unsuspecting masses.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
OK, my big rap about this is: How come so many millions go into the football industry each year and almost nothing goes into the arts. Look at the VCA! All we need is $6m a year, and the government aren’t prepared to fork it out. IT’S POO CHANGE. As if the government is cool to throw $30m at the money-hungry stupid arse MCG but not give a bit to the VCA when it’s clear that the city of Melbourne, in fact, the nation, isn’t happy with it!
IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 am
You people sit there and wine about how much you hate football, leave the room, turn your tv off, go for a walk, skip the sports section in the newspaper. Nothing is making you read about it or watch it. The game makes heaps of people happy, and for you small group of people who dislike it, go do something else, rather than ruin other people fun.
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:49 am
Elle, you appear to have completely missed the point darling. Noone would care if AFL commanded a few pages in the sports section of the papers or a Sunday afternoon TV time-slot. The issue here is that this silly game has infriltrated every known media space – whether it be the front page, lead news article or radio topic. It’s incessant, grating and impossible to avoid.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm
hahaha you’re so funny Elle.
For the rest of you true Anti-Football Zealots, be at the North Fitzroy Star Hotel this Saturday for the next planning meeting, to work out how we’re going to disrupt and DESTROY football over the next year, and cause untold misery for football supporters everywhere!!!
This is the official unofficial Anti-Football lunch, from midday onwards, same location as the official AF League event last year, but no need to buy tickets.
Would be handy to know how many are coming, contact Greg Keogh on 9584 4829 or greg@mira.net
All welcome to socialise and plot over lunch.
Card players welcome.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I have long discovered that escaping the dreaded game is just not that simple. It’s basically impossible to watch television without being reminded of the dreaded game. It is continually promoted on the radio. The newspaper’s front pages are often plastered with it, people continually want to talk about it, it is often used in reference to totally disconnected issues, no it’s practically impossible to avoid.
If the same amount of promotion was employed on some other product, and rammed down your throat at every turn, then we would most likely see a revolt right across the country until it stopped. Propaganda, and mass hysteria is what I call it. Be careful now, the last infamous person to utilize propaganda and mass hysteria finished up starting World War II.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Elle,
I think it’s YOU who ’sit’ there, watching, watching and watching.
TV? wouldn’t it be great to switch the channel – but hey! There is sport on every station.
Sports ’section’? Ha! what a laugh! It makes the front page even though it is clearly NOT news!
We are NOT a small group, we are the MAJORITY.
The statistics speak for themselves.
Do your own research: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/39433889d406eeb9ca2570610019e9a5/0a11bab1c3b902cbca2574520010a53a!OpenDocument
We have ZERO chance of changing the minds of you lot! All we want is some sensible balance.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Elle,
You have the misapprehension that it’s possible for the disinterested to avoid what is flogged ad nauseum on every TV news every night, as well as midweek football shows (not to mention the ads in between).
There’s also every newspaper where any actual news content is secondary to the crap in the back.
Then there’s radio (same as TV). And let’s not forget posters, billboards, coasters, stubby coolers, schoolbags, ties, clothes, towels, key rings, quilt covers, brew mugs, stickers, fridge magnets, school stationery…. need I continue?
In all cases some moron’s groin strain, drug / booze problem, or glassing / punchup is apparently at least as important as world events that actually matter.
Or it’s some coach sacking, or tribunal outcome, or some other football thing about which I could not care less.
Rather than leave what is MY room I want to stay and let football leave. I’d also like to read or walk in a football-free manner without having to go to Heard Island to achieve it.
September 25th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Why is it that some stupid organisation is trying to ruin the happiness of so much Australians who enjoy watching/playing Football.
You guys should honestly get a life and stop bagging footy, because more and more people are liking it as each day goes, and you can’t do anything about it
LOSERS!
September 26th, 2009 at 7:59 am
at last a groupe of people who feal the same as me….. I HATE FOOTBALL!! go the real AFL
September 26th, 2009 at 10:43 am
It seems totally sacrilegious to say it, but I am sick of the wall to wall cult which is AFL.
You can’t escape it, it’s everywhere. Its adherents, who are many, are so indoctrinated into the ways of the cult, that even the slightest sign of opposition or even disinterest in their beliefs is met with at least puzzlement up to outright aggression.
Its time this cult was exposed for the brainwashing, moneygathering nonsense it really is.
Everyone is entitled to follow a sport but not when it begins to take over an entire society.
September 26th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Typical national news line up.
1. Some footy ‘role model’ caught in sex romp/drugs scandal/drunken tirade (delete as applicable).
2. some unfortunate had their washing stolen from their line in an outer suburb.
3. Two million people die in typhoon somewhere in Asia.
September 26th, 2009 at 11:55 am
I have only now discovered your website – I am so pleased to know that there are others in the world who find football, and presumably, rugby offensive.
I understand that it has been proved scientifically that approximately 75% of people will make a decision that their own logic tells them in wrong if they sense that the correct decision will be unacceptable to the mob.
For 75% of people the desire for acceptance is greater than their desire to be correct. They don’t care what they do and will follow and do anything as long as it makes them part of the gang.
Herd behaviour, Mob rule, Pack journalism, Groupthink, call it whatever, is a weakness in humans that has had terrible consequences.
How could Christianity commit such a dastardly deeds over the millennia, from the 4th century, slaughter of Arians, Gnostics and Pagans, the murder of Hypatia by saint Cyril, thousands of murders over many hundreds of years, the inquisition when mobs of Christians were delighted to perpetrated awful deeds. How could a seemingly intelligent, reasonable and educated people such as the Germans, have allowed the Nazis to get out of control in the 1930’s & 40’s?
How could, usually decent , Australians pay a lot of money to watch a government backed pack of rapists, drug addicts and thugs chase a ball around a field?
A Yale educated psychologist defines it as: “A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members’ strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.”
September 26th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
James,
Let’s be clear as to who the real losers are:
- it’s the people who are fixated on football at the expense of any other field of human endeavour. Not quite what I’d call a full life.
- it’d the people who make ‘heroes’ out of morons whose ability to play football is apparently far more important than their lack of functionality as actual human beings… starting with their inability to hold their grog in a civilised manner.
- it’s the people who are quite happy to be exploited by a half-billion dollar industry…. for what?
As losers go, regret you therefore probably qualify.
As for ruining other people’s happiness… again let’s be clear: the issue is *not* stopping those who enjoy footy from doing so – it’s about not having footy shoved down *anyone else’s* throat morning, noon and night.
September 26th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I wonder what the lowlifes who bag footy on this site done on Grand final day
99,252 watched footy
What did you losers do
September 27th, 2009 at 5:31 am
How about you get a life you sad, sad bunch of people. If you dont like AFL then dont watch it. Simple. Tossers.
September 27th, 2009 at 10:54 am
James,
That still leaves 22 million plus people in Australia (or the 6.8 billion on the rest of the planet) who didn’t.
And what they did is none of your business – we’re not the ones shoving what *we* like down *everyone else’s* throat.
You still seem unclear as to who the real losers are.
September 27th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Tom,
Re having a life – see my comment 33. Would love your explanation as to where I have it wrong.
As for not watching AFL… my comment 27 refers. Trust me – if we could we would, but the media’s footy fixation at the expense of virtually *every* other field of human endeavour makes it impossible to avoid.
It seems footynazies such as yourself even resent footy-free oases such as this website.
September 27th, 2009 at 11:32 am
In reply to Tom Loincloth and James, those of us whose lives don’t revolve around football have other things to do such as working on Saturday. At least I was being paid to be out in the cold unlike you people who spend hours lining up in the cold then forking out huge sums of money for the privilege to watch a group of overpaid tossers run around in the wet and the cold. I didn’t have to stress out about not getting GF tickets like all of you fools. And As for James comment about 99252 watching. I am sure just as many if not more didn’t watch this boring game.
Season’s over now guys so what will you do now for the next six months, take up knitting?
September 28th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
“That still leaves 22 million plus people in Australia (or the 6.8 billion on the rest of the planet) who didn’t.”
Oh I’m pretty sure more than 1 million people watched footy mate
Probably around 10 million people watch footy around Aus, or even more, and if it isn’t football its rugby, so more than 18 million follow either of the 2 sports.
“Season’s over now guys so what will you do now for the next six months, take up knitting?”
There is always cricket
October 11th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
James! Mate! My corrections in ().
“I wonder what the lowlifes who bag footy on this site done (did) on Grand final day(.)
99,252 watched (the) footy(.)
What did you losers do (?)”
Barely print literate James kinda speeks fa dem all dont he?
October 13th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Dean
My life doesnt revolve around football. I enjoy watching it , live or on television. Australia is proud of its sporting history and traditions, and to
say our national game is “boring”, played by ‘Tossers” and watched by “fools” sound like the words of a spiteful, narrow-minded and ignorant person. Not to mention somewhat unpatriotic. If you want to be ‘Anti’ anything try Anti Drugs or Anti Child Abuse or something. Leave footy alone. Its fun and entertaining for some people.
Regards
Tom Shackcloth
October 17th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
What people in the southern states often don’t realise that the vast majority of NSW and QLD couldn’t care less about AFL. How can people get excited about scoring a point for missing? I mean, most of the time, you know who has won by half time anyway. I really tried to give it a go, but alas, fell asleep.
FOOTBALL is played with a round ball, and the sooner it takes over here in OZ, the better off we will all be.
December 21st, 2009 at 9:12 pm
“idontlikefootball” don’t correct my post please, I might be replying to something 2 months old but… please your correct your name, if you bothered to correct the grammar in my post then I’m pretty sure you could have been bothered to fix the grammar error in your name.
What does your last line exactly mean?