Travis S

just real average to be honest. Insta: @longest_yeahboiever

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So good getting a photo with the boss man Tiger Woods yesterday.

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@DaMidgetZimbo @doehertea

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There’s no rival code threatening the AFL. No competitor taking their crowd. They already have the people. They already won. Which makes what they’re doing to the game harder to forgive, because it isn’t even necessary. Stretching fixtures across nearly every night of the week, filling every hour with media and tv programming, with takes, with manufactured argument, it’s dominance of an audience they never had to fight for in the first place. The easy cop out is being money hungry, but they’re just sucking the soul out of the game for no reason. Moving so fast anyone you may pick up along the way doesn’t have a chance to really attach themselves to the game and a team anymore.

Ask a kid what Thursday night footy means to them. Then remember what Friday night footy meant to you, no school tomorrow, a whole weekend of football still ahead, that particular feeling of a world briefly and completely in order. Those aren’t the same thing. They never will be.

The weekend game had a rhythm to it that extended well beyond the final siren. Monday morning at work or the cafe down the road was part of it. Walking in and actually talking about what happened, not reciting takes you’d already absorbed from five different podcasts, morning dump twitter scroll and a breakfast show panel, but genuinely working out what you thought with people you knew. The passage in the third quarter. Whether that call was as bad as it looked. What was going on with your key forward. That conversation is gone now, because by Monday the content machine has already had it, packaged it, and moved, we’ve got a Wednesday game to get ready for which is now needed to fit in rests over an ever expanding series of bye rounds(probably). Every opinion’s almost exhausted before you’ve spoken to a single person you actually know. So nobody bothers anymore. They just have to pick a pundit to agree with.

What they’ve been losing is the ritual. The community that forms slowly and quietly around years of supporting the same side. The knowing that the weekend was coming and your people and team would be there. That’s being hollowed out not because anyone asked for it to change, but because the machine the afl’s created needed more content and more nights of games to dominate an audience they already have. Wouldn’t hurt to go deeper and find out what they’re actually standing to lose, because it won’t be instant, But you won’t get it back either.

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@BreadBagsMcChav

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@Fastoolie @PFTCommenter @MrJerryOC Just another day at the stool right @reedt4723

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@RalphyHeraldSun Cheers Ralphy, what’s the go with this though?

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Bout that time

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As soon as 3 drops of rain hit the ground this Ted Lasso rule needs to be removed.

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@BreadBagsMcChav Love to see it

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Shifty Coleman futures market where

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How good are bye rounds.
Today’s Sunday AFL lineup:

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@wobblymami @JD_Nebraska69 just figured out your birthday present

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Astroturf standard when?

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@PardonMyTake @PFTCommenter @forthepeople Ok then tattoo bet. 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼 I know you want see it but if the dawgs beat my ducks I’ll get a tattoo of your likeness. I know as an honourable man you’d do the same if you saw it. Anyway good luck brother. Cheers mate

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Yeah Spectrum Steve’s making 200 after that. Just the way the ball(not round) is bouncing

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Aus Open Golf just teed off, Thursday Night football then cricket all afternoon. Wouldn’t be dead for quids.

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@ForePlayPod @FrankieBorrelli @Internetinvite @b_jones39_ Chill guys, people’s mothers are on this app

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Aching for a Winviz

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@NatMartin30 @DrewJonesFOX No needs to be trifold on thick cardboard so I can magnet to the fridge

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@RealCGriff You’re doing that thing again where you look photoshopped in. How.