Hyping Up Good Friday Footy

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:

 

  1. The coaches address to players must resemble a sermon.
  2. Teams run out between guard of honour of pastors, clerics, cardinals, priests, ayatollahs, etc
  3. On field aid people – male: runner, doctor etc wear white coat with stethoscope wrapped around neck; female staff wear nurse’s uniform
  4. 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.
  5. Goal post crosses … ?
  6. Trophy for winning team is a giant chocolate Sherrin
  7. Participation chocolate medals for all players and umpires
  8. Coin toss – hospital kid who will draw the most sympathy for donations
  9. Players stretchered off – ambulance on ground or at least a hospital bed from ground to boundary line
  10. Losing team allowed the right to replay game 3 days later
  11. Players reported during the game are put to trial at the end of that quarter – crowd vote … play on or crucifixion suspension.
  12. 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.
  13. Red Cross blood donation van outside the ground for losing team supporters.
  14. Hot cross buns outside the ground for winning team supporters.

Comments

  1. 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!

  2. Malcolm Ashwood says

    Love it Dave surely a Easter egg hunt for the kids on the ground before the game ?

  3. Steve Todorovic says

    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?

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