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It’s early days in the latest football misdemeanour, an AFL scandal already dubbed, Chicken-Gate. If you haven’t heard the news yet, the Kangaroos AFL team are in trouble after making a sex video about a Rooster.
I’ve just seen a short clip of the video. It’s nothing more than grown men acting like kids. It’s actually the kind of video that would of done well in a video production class at university.
The Kangaroos players told a story using Boris the Rooster, a sexual deviant who couldn’t resist having it off with a real chicken.
Unfortunately, though, for the players, they aren’t filmmakers. They are paid to play football, not direct the next Tropfest short film.
It’s the kind of humour Sam Newman uses all the time on the Footy Show. He gets away with it because he’s an entertainer.
Kangaroos captain Brent Harvey says the video was only made as an in-house joke. But that was until someone decided to put it on Youtube.
It’s not the worst thing football players have ever done. But in this climate, with all the problems facing all codes of football, it was quite a stupid thing to do.
In saying that, I find it ridiculous that the AFL is going to ‘educate’ the players. I think the public humiliation of this is already enough. I’m sure the players are already thinking that the only thing they did wrong was to put it on Youtube.
It was a bit of pre-season fun.
Perhaps they should be applauded for getting creative, rather than drinking another ten beers and physically harming someone.
I find all this talk about how offensive the video is funny. If people know the video is offensive, why do they even watch it?
Because we are all voyeuristic, deep down.
We want to know what everyone is talking about. If someone says we should be offended, we are.
Maybe I’ve watched too many South Park and Family Guy episodes, but it wasn’t that offensive. It was just a childish prank that no one would ever know about, if someone had kept the video in the club’s locker room.
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