David EdwardsEffortlessly moving from football season to cricket season
October 1st 2008 00:23
As a young boy i was raised on an unhealthy sporting diet of cricket and football. Not football as in the world game, but football as in the bastardised variants that we have come to know and love. Specifically, rugby league and AFL.
This weekend marks the end of the rugby league season, and indeed the end of the Australian football calendar. Thus, a gaping abyss is created between the end of this sporting season and the beginning of the Australian cricket season.
Everybody knows that you can't dive straight into one from the other. It takes at least a few weeks to warm to the fact that we are now saluting our cricketers instead of our footballers, and vice versa. The question, obviously, is what do we do during this interim period? SportingMind will offer some suggestions to disillusioned sports fans as to how one can adequately fill the chasm between the seasons:
1) Write a blog. This is a self-indulgent activity that will help you pass the time. It will also keep you off the streets, which is what i have certainly found. Too often i was literally found roaming the streets at night, until i discovered that having a solid internet connection and a personal domain is the solution to street crime.
2) Clean your room. Who knows what you might find in there? Something you had neglected for years, obviously. Some old newspaper clippings, or perhaps even a small child that you once fathered - that you had forgotten about.
3) Play "Test Match", the board game. Remember this classic game? Dig it out of the cupboard, dust it off and take at look at just how shit it really is, yet remember how much you loved it when you first bought it.
4) Go to the Spring Races. Even if you don't know anything about horse racing, you can pretend you are part of the "it" crowd by dressing in a pinstripe suit, pastel coloured shirt with matching tie, and cheer on whilst drinking overly-priced champagne from plastic flutes. This is an especially good exercise for people with an inferiority complex.
5) Fly a kite.
6) Watch the Hyundai A-League. Bear in mind this is a last resort tactic if none of the aforementioned activities are working out for you. SportingMind would never suggest you watch this competition unless you absolutely have to.
If you do decide to take part in one (or more) of these interim activities, then the cricket season will be upon you before you know it. The hot 40-degree days, bad Weetbix commericals featuring Test cricketers, Bradman centenary memorabilia, new "12th Man" releases in time for Christmas, sledging controversies and terrible sportsmanship.....all of these are soon to come. Most of all, I eagerly await Peter Roebuck's regular Herald column, with his effortless blend of politics and cricket being a summer treat i can not do without.
-SportingMind
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