Footy at the MCG

Sunset over the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Hawthorne Hawks vs. Geelong Cats
Game attendance: 80,222

The respective club songs - priceless. Have a listen:
Hawthorn Hawks
Geelong Cats
When the Hawks song came on at full blast out of every available speaker, we spent a few seconds craning our necks around trying to figure out what was going on. But then we really started getting into it - it's got a beat, you can dance to it. And the songs must do a great job getting the crowd riled up because they obviously haven't been reworked since they were composed.

Can you imagine that any people cheering and/or groaning all at once? That was the most interesting part of the game - everybody seemed to be reading from the same script. One of the players would catch the ball and all of their supporters would cheer with the same vocal intonation. Quite bizarre.

When you shout support for a team, you barrack for them. As in "You should barrack for the Hawks". One would NOT say "You should root for the Hawks" because that means something altogether different (and rude).

We were instructed to complete the Aussie MCG experience by getting a 4'n20 meat pie. They are very tasty but it wasn't until Isabelle enlightened me that I noticed the double entendre in the packaging.

(google four-twenty if you're in the dark, too)