Hyping Up Good Friday Footy
April 16, 2017 by 4 Comments
Getting the most out of Good Friday is a challenge. Making it become a marquee day like the Indigenous game and Anzac Day will require some serious mind mapping.
Anzac Day – has uniforms, planes, helicopter dropping the ball off, last post …
Indigenous round – runs with the welcome to country, cultural dances, didge playing, the Long Walk …
Good Friday – at the cost of being a little sacrilegious …
My early thoughts are:
- The coaches address to players must resemble a sermon.
- Teams run out between guard of honour of pastors, clerics, cardinals, priests, ayatollahs, etc
- On field aid people – male: runner, doctor etc wear white coat with stethoscope wrapped around neck; female staff wear nurse’s uniform
- Sin bin area – accused and sentenced criminals locked in with signs saying when their trial is or where their jail is … the message being don’t be naughty like them.
- Goal post crosses … ?
- Trophy for winning team is a giant chocolate Sherrin
- Participation chocolate medals for all players and umpires
- Coin toss – hospital kid who will draw the most sympathy for donations
- Players stretchered off – ambulance on ground or at least a hospital bed from ground to boundary line
- Losing team allowed the right to replay game 3 days later
- Players reported during the game are put to trial at the end of that quarter – crowd vote … play on or crucifixion suspension.
- Royal Children’s Hospital appeal donations are announced over the PA after every goal – compulsory coin donation by everyone in the crowd. Blanket goes around the boundary line during quarters. The blanket is followed by a shivering little kid with a sign saying this was my blanket … soliciting more donations.
- Red Cross blood donation van outside the ground for losing team supporters.
- Hot cross buns outside the ground for winning team supporters.
Yep Dave, I certainly concur with P10. If the vanquished can’t rise back up on Easter Sunday, why have a Good Friday match?
Glen!
Love it Dave surely a Easter egg hunt for the kids on the ground before the game ?
Dave….have you offered your intellect and humour to the Footy Show? They’re in desperate need of your innovative and quirky ideas. Can we have more, please?
As today is Good Friday, it got me thinking of doing a Good Friday football team where every player has a surname or part of their surname as Good, Fri or Day.
The spelling doesn’t matter and if the spelling is incorrect, as long as it sounds like the surname in question. For example, to strengthen this team, players with the surnames of Davis and Daicos were included as the start of their surname sounds like Day. O’Dea was included to help the defence and the Dea part of his surname sounds like Day.
Some players were played out of position, so they could fit in the team.
This is the VFL/AFL Good Friday Team:
B: Harry FREI (Footscray/Fri in surname), Sam DAY (Gold Coast/Brisbane Lions), Jim O’DEA (St K/Dea like Day)
HB: Barry DAVIS (c) (Ess/NM/Da like Day), Andy GOODWIN (Rich/Melb 1987-1993), Josh DAICOS (Coll/Dai like Day)
C: Robert DAY (Hawthorn 1971-1972), Nick DAICOS (Collingwood/Dai like Day), Joel FREIJAH (WB 2024-pres/Fri in s/name)
HF: Nick DAVIS (Coll/Syd/Da/Day), Adam GOODES (Syd/Good in surname), Craig DAVIS (Carl/NM/Coll/Syd/Da like Day)
F: Allan DAVIS (St K/Ess/Me/Co), Bayley FRITSCH (Melb/Fri in surname), Peter DAICOS (Coll/Dai like Day)
R: Barry GOODINGHAM (NM/Good in surname), Will DAY (Hawthorn), Simon GOODWIN (Adel/Good in surname)
Interchange: Kerry GOOD (NM 1973-83), Frank GOODE (NM/1961-67), Brett GOODES (WB 2013-15)
Coach: Bob DAVIS (Geel/Da like Day)
This team will play a pretend exhibition match against the best North Melbourne team that’s played in a Good Friday match.
Venue: Marvel Stadium on Good Friday
Entertainment: The song “Friday on my Mind”, by The Easybeats (Let’s hope that none of these teams will be Easy beats)
All proceeds for the match will go to the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
It should be a good game of football and let’s hope you don’t go home saying that the “umpires crucified us!”