From: http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/real ... 55745.html
Car'n the Pies — truth about those Blues
Geoff McClure
March 23, 2007
IF YOU did a list of football truisms, right at the top would be that Collingwood supporters despise the Blues and vice versa. But while all of that may well be accurate in a typically footy sense, we now discover the same cannot be said about Blues fans and their feeling towards the "other" pies — you know, the ones we eat. In fact, quite the reverse is the case — not only are they meat-pie crazy, but they are quite significantly so, and we even have the statistics to prove it. You see, in sifting through his venue consumption notes, the Telstra Dome boss Ian Collins recently unearthed a quite amazing stat. He discovered that on a typical AFL game day involving teams other than Carlton, the consumption of meat pies at his stadium usually equates to one pie for six people. But in games involving the Blues (and this didn't just happen once or twice but, he realised, had been going on for some time) the rate changes quite dramatically to one for four (or, to be precise, 3.9).
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In fact, to give you an idea of how many pies Dome staff always order, the 3.9 ratio for the 46,094 fans who turned up for the final equated to a consumption of 11,818, which is 4136 more than would have been the case had the Blues not been playing.
What a bunch of pigs we are!!
Why do Carlton supporters eat more pies?? Any theories?
