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why Essendon on TV every week?
Posted By: torgo
Date: Tuesday, 1 July 2003, at 6:09 p.m. US Eastern Time
Gotta vent here - I'm really starting to hate the Bombers. Nothing against the club, the players, the coaches, or the fans.
It's just that week after week, they're in the featured match on one of the Foster's Aussie Rules shows on FSW. Through round 12, they've been featured on one of the two shows at least eight times. (Rounds 1,2,3,5,7,9,11, and 12. I missed round 4 and the highlights show of round 8, so it could be even more than that.)
Quick math - two featured matches (one per show) per round times twelve rounds, times two teams per match, divided by sixteen teams makes an average of three featured matches per team so far. The Bombers were featured three times in the first three rounds!
Sure, they're a storied franchise, won sixteen flags, stomped the league flat in 2000, etc, etc. But EIGHT featured matches?? That's more than Brisbane, Port Adelaide and West Coast (all in the top 4 pretty much all season) COMBINED. The production staff seems to think the entire AFL revolves around the 5-7 Bombers.
It wouldn't be so bad if the staff picked the best matches each week and Essendon happened to be involved. Unfortunately, at least four of them were pretty much over before the end of the third turn. Every week six other matches, most of them much closer, better played, and more entertaining, get passed over in favor of "the all-important clash between Essendon and..."
So I'm hoping their tailspin continues and the 'Dons end up closer to the wooden spoon than the top eight. Maybe that way my TV will show colors other than red and black a little more often next season.
 why Essendon on TV every week? | torgo | Tuesday, 1 July 2003, at 6:09 p.m. US Eastern Time |
 Re: why Essendon on TV every week?  | Rob de Santos | Tuesday, 1 July 2003, at 7:13 p.m. US Eastern Time |
| Re: why Essendon on TV every week? | Marie | Thursday, 21 August 2003, at 10:09 a.m. US Eastern Time |
| Re: why Essendon on TV every week? | Rob de Santos | Thursday, 21 August 2003, at 11:26 a.m. US Eastern Time |
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