Bradza link said:
[quote author=Duff link=topic=184953.msg289396#msg289396 date=1283308665]
Contrary to popular belief, the football is not a freindly family fun activity. It's blokes watching blokes tear each other apart. It's grog & gambling.
What a load of tripe. You really do live on your own little planet don't you Duff!?
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Then what is it Bradza? All I see on that field is a bunch of blokes tearing each other apart for the fun of it. Duff is correct. Why should any of us have to change the way we behave because you have kids and decide to bring them into the ALCOHOL AREA? Its just the same as us telling you that you can't bring them into the alcohol area. We should be allowed to say what we want and you should be able to take your kids wherever you want.
However, if you bring your kids into the alcohol area then you will hear swearing, end of story. We are not watching tennis here guys...and even at the tennis you get swearing too...with silence in between.
A good question is this: why do you bring them to the alcohol areas in the first place when you know they might pick these things up? Is it because you want to have a drink? If so, why are you drinking while you are looking after the kids? I have a friend that a lot of people on here know (as they are my friends). He has a kid and wants to bring him to footy games. However, he has come to the conclusion that either a) he brings his kid and sits away from his mates in the Family Hill, or b) he drinks with us. He knows that there could be words that he doesn't want his kid to hear and he makes the decision, its one or the other.
I want a lot of people to join us. My drum doesn't work without people being loud and we need numbers to do that. However, our chants do have swear words in them. The funniest of them have swearing throughout them. On Sunday we were extremely good up until the 8 point try. People that are regulars will tell you that the swearing was the least they would have heard all season from us...until the penalty.
As Mark said, as what happened in Gold Coast and at the Roosters games, certain situations will fire off the cannons and then it is on for young and old. We saw it at the Gold Coast last year and we saw it last week.
I agree with most of everything Duff has said, I agree with Mark 100% and I agree with Vidmar 100%. I do not condone the attack on the chair but at least we didn't punch anyone, unlike what happened to one of my mates at the hands of 2 Roosters fans. We are a great bunch of people that would rather say a few swear words than lower ourselves to the level of some people who get violent. Our group has never been violent to other people and never will be.
I will leave with this: 2 years ago I was at the Roosters game and swore. The dad turned aroound, in front of his kid mind you and said that he would punch me if I swore again. Swearing is words but I would rather teach my kid to swear than condone violence.
/end of rant