Since they showed highlights of that piece involving the Axe at Ekkys (or wherever it is), I thought they would've also shown that infamous moment in '98 when they picked some random girl from the audience to lick cream off Blocker's and Laurie Daley's feet. hahaha! Oh, I remember there was a lot of controversy over this, with the Ch9 switchboards being inundated that night and talkback radio stations having a feeding frenzy over this incident the next day.
It's a shame that Blocker didn't feature prominently in the highlights package, yet they showed highlights involving Sterlo, Matt Johns, the Chief and even Mahatma Cote (all former members of the show). Maybe some audience members did request highlights of Blocker (e.g. the Kelloggs Special K anti-ad), but the powers that be at Ch9 rejected their requests. I still remember that bit from Street Talk involving Mahatma Cote and that old guy saying "Do you speak Australian? You don't look Australian to me!". The look on Fat Cat's face was priceless.
Btw, why isn't the Footy Show live anymore (whereas the AFL version is still live into Melbourne)? I know it was live until about 2008, but was there any particular reason they stopped broadcasting live?
Up until last year I always thought it was live, but Im not 100% on the reason, but could be because they wanted a younger live audience and the fact that Ch 9 have 20,000 ads in their show that could finish around 11.30, if not longer.
Since they showed highlights of that piece involving the Axe at Ekkys (or wherever it is), I thought they would've also shown that infamous moment in '98 when they picked some random girl from the audience to lick cream off Blocker's and Laurie Daley's feet. hahaha! Oh, I remember there was a lot of controversy over this, with the Ch9 switchboards being inundated that night and talkback radio stations having a feeding frenzy over this incident the next day.
Im pretty sure theyve been told plenty of times not to show it again. It create the biggest headlines in the Footy Shows history which mightve prompted Hadley to quit at the end of the season.
I remember it was a contest for the Biggest Origin fan and what would they dare to do to be the biggest.
That random girl was a contender and sent a request to lick to feet of Noel Cleal. Clearly a NO NO NO. They showed it live but later censored it on the News and ACA.
Another particular incident that night was a woman in the audience (possibly in her 40s), also sent a request to lick body paint off
Laurie Daley, a guest panelist. As it turned out Daley was not impressed and looked totally embarassed.
It sparked huge controvesy and they decided to can the contest, even after another NSW fan decided to have a "cockroach" tatoo on her @rse.
But in the end the winners were from Queensland after 4 Maroons fans wanted to chain themselves to Wally's Statue at Suncorp, which at the time was inside the ground, and stayed there for 3 days.
