So the Smorgon scoreboard thread got me thinking about the other side of the oval, the Garton Street scoreboard.
As it happens it used to be run by a guy called Phil Spitalnic (not sure if I got his surname right).
He and his wife Ruth were family friends of my folks' when I was a kid (we haven't seen them in like, forver, not sure what happened there).
Anyway I got to sit in the scoreboard with him a bunch of times and it was awesome. Even got to take out and put in numbers a few times.
So the funniest thing I ever heard while sitting in that scoreboard was when an opposition supporter yelled out to SOS, who was standing in the goalsquare against the opposition's full forward (I forget who unfortunately). So he goes:
"Hey SOS, what's the difference between the goalsquare and Jo Bailey?"
...you can see SOS' head turn ever so slightly..
"Jo Bailey's much wider".
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