Posted on 08/26/2022 5:42:28 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
When you are an old man in modern Western Society, the default position is for too many young people, especially young women, to treat you as a stupid, patriarchal and probably criminal piece of shit.
Yesterday the opposite thing happened for me.
It happened through perhaps the last bastion of freedom in Australia, the home grown game of sport of Australian Rules Football.
I am a lifelong Collingwood supporter. The team is also known as the Magpies.
My dad took me to all the games when I was a kid.
In 1969 and 1970, as a young teenager, I had the joy of seeing Collingwood play wonderful, fast, open, attacking Footy, but always fail to secure the premiership, leading to the mocking term the Colliwobbles to describe their continual finals failures.
The Colliwobbles ended in 1990, when I was 33 years old.
Then in 2010 the next Collingwood premiership team produced the best forward press ever seen in Australian football at that time to win another flag. So dominant were they during the season that I started making the boast "Flagpies" as often as I could.
But no one shared it with me then.
Yesterday that changed, when the MC at a function at The Magpie Nest agreed to be filmed shouting out "Flagpies" with me.
She was warm, enthusiastic and proud to celebrate with an old man that Collingwood has had a unique achievement this year of eleven victories by a margin under 12 points in the 22 game AFL season. 12 points in Australian Rules football is two goals. The average team score in a game is 83.4 points.
Collingwood is famous as a team you either love or hate (Is the American equivalent for that The Yankees?)
Even the people who hate Collingwood have been amazed at how exciting it has been to watch they way the Collingwood players in 2022 believe in each other and win the tough, close games by fast, attacking football.
That's what Western Society as a whole needs to learn to do again.
Believe in each other.
Yesterday that happened for me.
God bless the freedom celebrating great sport can give us all.
👊🏽
Nice!
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VICTORY FOR ALL #2 FLAGPIES
Advance Australia Fair.
Aussie Rules Football. The only sport where major injuries are part of the box scores.
“especially young women, to treat you as a stupid, patriarchal and probably criminal piece of shit. “
Well, my default is to treat young women as vapid iFag smartphone addicts. They probably voted for Bidet*, which does not improve things.
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