[afl] WE WON

[bantha_fodder]

i'd like to take a moment from my usual fannish ramblings to talk about the fact that my beloved footy team won the grand final. i just. WE WON. it has been seventy two years since our last premiership, and we won with a beautiful mark and a gap of four points. and i just.

i started crying when the siren rang.

and then i called my brother in law, who answered his phone, but refused to talk to me. so i talked into the silence of him fuming because his team lost, and i need to transcribe myself because i am so happy.

pen: hi. [i pause] are you not talking to me? [i pause again] well, i wasn't sure you were going to answer when i called, so hi. did you see that last mark? did you see it? WE WON. FOUR POINTS. AND I AM NEVER GOING TO LET YOU FORGET IT. have fun at work, i'll see you next week.

context: i live in perth, and everyone in this town supports the team WE JUST BEAT (the eagles). i've spent the last week with people actually dismissing me, going, "oh, she's a swans supporter" in that knowing tone. and all the radio stations were all, "here's a song to cheer up all the swans supporters" and then playing the eagle's anthem, and thinking they were so fucking funny. and you know what? we won. and i was just so happy that we'd made it to a grand final that i didn't care if we won or lost, until i spent a week surrounded by people going, "oh, you support sydney?" in this disdainful manner.

for those of you who don't know AFL, you can read about it from the perspective of an american exchange student here, an excellent photoblog of this year's easter sunday game here, and my team's website is here.



(i'm so happy about this, one icon wasn't enough. i needed to make two)

Comments

[dead-log.livejournal.com]

YES! sydney all the way! WOO! but i'm a shitty fan, i didn't think they'd win. hehehe about your brother-in-law

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

would you like to borrow one of my icons? and SPREAD THE JOY AROUND?

i'm wearing my beanie, and i just got booed at the shops! i flipped a finger and said, "yeah, you're just jealous" and they kept booing and it was great!

tomorrow i'm going to the show, and do you think i'm wearing my sydney beanie? OF COURSE I AM.

sry, late reply

[dead-log.livejournal.com]

in honour of the win, i shall use this icon for a week.
hahaha of course they were jealous! good for you, wear your beanie with pride!

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

Congrats! :)

Perth? That means you're in the same time as I am which I always find a strange though for some reason.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

The first time I found fangirls in Australia I was so shocked, so I understand why you find it strange.

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

哈哈, no I mean Beijing and Perth are in the same timezone. :) Most of the time everyone I'm talking to on the net is in a different timezone to me, unless they're in China or HK ;)

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

No, I understood that bit. I was just saying, I feel the same thing, because most people I talk to are, like, twelve to sixteen hours behind. And to be on the same time, they're usually in Australia.

[juleskicks.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. AWESOME.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

ISN'T IT.

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

Nothing better then the underdog coming out on top, is there? :) Fantastic! Now all I need is for the Villans to pull a miricle next season over here... and beat brum city too of course, that'd put the wind up my uncle and no mistake :D
xx

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

Hee. Good luck! It's so great when you can mock family.

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

Villa and Brum city are both footie teams for the city of birmingham, so If Villa could win something I would *so* be able to rub Uncle Mike's nose in it XD
It'd be great to finally do that!
xx

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I know how you feel - last year, my baseball team won the World Series for the first time in 86 years, and I still can't believe I was as happy about it as I was. And still am. :D

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

I literally cannot stop grinning. I missed my bus this morning, and it's Sunday so that's a moderate problem, but I didn't care! I had to walk longer than I thought I would need to, and that was okay. My bus home was late, and that was okay. IT IS ALL GREAT.

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

ALL IS WELL WITH THE WORLD. XD

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

...dude, are you allowed to live over there and say things like that? Seriously, though: how on earth did you manage to be a Sydney supporter living in Perth. I'm lost here. Congratulations, though. *G*

For two years I wasn't allowed to support Brisbane, nevermind that I came from QLD and that was the only Q-team in the game, because that would be bandwagon jumping. I've lost all desire to even fake interest in the game now. This is easier than you might imagine, even in Melbourne.

No football icon. CRICKET!

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

how on earth did you manage to be a Sydney supporter living in Perth.

It is HARD WORK. But I'm from Sydney, way back in the dim mists of time, and although I love living in WA, this is the one thing I keep. Well, this and calling fruit juice boxes 'poppers.' I get mocked for that, too. Here in WA they're 'fruit boxes,' and I'm like "whatever."

My friend (who moved from WA to Melbourne) has membership number 26 for the Freo Dockers. Because that's how few members they have over there. But she works hard at that, too.

OMG look at me rambling.

BUT I MUST CONTINUE: I went to the Royal Show today, and I wore my Swans beanie even though it was a bit too hot for it, and there were a handful of other people wearing Swans stuff too. And every single one of them stopped to say hi, and say, "aren't we lucky?" And one shop vendor, when I leaned over to look at something, said, "hangon, you've got something on your head," and reached for the pobble on the top with his scissors, which made me laugh.