Re: Worst supporters?
Originally Posted by
alwaysadog
My worst memory is the Essendon supporters in the 2000 game. It was an all ticket away game and we, my eldest son anmd I, found to our dismay that our seats were right in the middle of the Essendon members. There were four middle aged guys sitting directly in front of us and did they give us hell all night. They were well into the ink and nasty with it.
Every time we missed or they got a free they would turn round and in a very stilted way chant "What a pity' or if they scored had a series of smart remarks about the poor quality of the opposition. They went very quiet in the last minute of the game and on the final siren I couldn't resist leaning forward and saying quietly but loudly enough to be heard, "What a pity."
That was quite a night. My best mate stopped mid aisle with a cup of coffee in his hand, put it down and tried to go a particular loud mouth during the third quarter. This charmer had been abusing an elderly woman sitting a couple of rows in front of us. At the end of the game she stood and let fly at him, his footy club, his parents, the place he was born and pretty much anything he'd ever had to do with since the day he was born.
He went as white as a sheet and then as red as a beet, but with half a dozen of us standing behind her leering at him he wasnt going to do anything. It was beautiful to watch
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.