A mate of mine and I were at our local bowling club the other night and we were discussing the outwardly obnoxious behaviour of a mutual friend of ours – using the ‘friend’ loosely.
Said “friend” – let’s call him Kevin – is a Collingwood supporter and while he’s always normally a dribbler he gets even worse during the footy season.
It was then that it suddenly dawned on me – every Collingwood supporter I’ve ever met is the same.
During the footy season they’re even more rude, one-eyed, pigheaded, loud, and arrogant than normal.
It was at that point when I had an epiphany. It’s the “chicken-and-the egg” thing all over again.
I turned to my mate and said, “I wonder what comes first?”
“What do you mean he replied”?
“Well,” I said. “Do you have to be prat to be a Collingwood supporter or once you start following Collingwood does the very fact that you are now a Magpies fan suddenly turn you into a prat?”
“Hmmm, good question,” he replied.
Collingwood, not unlike Manly in the NRL, polarise people. You either love them or you hate them.
In most cases I think this is a little unfair because they’re both more than average footy teams, but it’s indisputable that they both don’t enjoy much love from outside their supporter base.
Just about every derogative AFL footy joke you’ve ever heard is about Collingwood.
Q: Why don’t you run over a Collingwood supporter on a pushbike?
A: Because it’s probably your bike.
Q: Why did the Collingwood supporter cross the road?
A: Centrelink was on the other side.
Q: How do you inflict 12 months of acute pain on a Pies supporter?
A: Buy them a membership for Christmas!
Q: What do u say to a Collingwood supporter with a job?
A: I’ll have fries with that thanks.
Q: Two Collingwood Supporters in a car without any music, who is driving?
A: The Policeman
The list goes on…
Perhaps it’s unfair, perhaps it’s not but I can’t help but feeling that like the chicken and the egg I we may never have an answer to this conundrum.
I guess we may never know which came first, the chicken (i.e. Collingwood) or the egg (in this case, well let’s just call him Evil Kev)?
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