imported_bronco
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Well this thread was a flop on WORL so i'll give it a go here where the kiddies posts won't shove it onto the back pages.
I remember before i got the internet that i thought that league was all wonderfull and saint like. I thought every team was perferct and no team was more perfect than mine, the Brisbane Broncos. Those were my first days of league for me, where i was just young and wasn't told the things that went on in the game, i just loved watching the footy.
Those are the days i wish i could go back to. When the political bullshit didn't bother me, i didn't know league had any. I was just a pure fan who loved the game and only the game.
Those were the great days when NZ FTA Telly would show about 3 games a week and they would show the local lion red comp. The glory days i call them. Brisbane never did too well in the ARL. always there or there abouts, the first time i ever saw them win a trophy was in 97. Wellington always used to get cained in the local league comp and upper hutt weren't much better but they were always good to watch, the grass roots of NZ league. North Shore were pretty good then and won it a couple of times i think.
I still have great memories of those days, they were only 4-5 years ago but they seem ages ago. I, like most Kiwi league fans was introduced to the game in 95 when the Warriors hit centre stage. I got bored one day and switched the channel and i guess that i'm in this forum proves that i was hooked from the first moment i saw it. The Broncos won that night but i wasn't a fan right away.For a couple of weeks i was a manly and warriors fan. I then watched the Broncos a bit more and loved their style of play and how they played to entertain and win.
Anyway i'm waddling on. My point is that the internet has given me a real sour taste about league and the fans. I went from thinking my Broncos were perfect to realising that they weren't so perfect and that they caused super league. I learnt about super league for one. I remember at primary school all the other kids would draw funny drawings but i'd draw the ARL logo with the words simply the best under it. I remember actually thinking the Broncos were going to go to the ARL lol. To cut that story short, the Broncos went to SL and so did I.
The internet showed me how all fans didn't just get on wonderfully that we bicker alot and constantly put our sport and its teams and players down. I guess thats life but its hard when your in NZ with very little league in the media and your painting this idealic picture in your head about how great league is.
Now the above may sound as if i hate league but nothing is further from the truth if anything the internet has made me more passionate for the game.
These days i don't like to read a lot of the news stories on the web and some may say i'm out of touch with the game or don't know much about it but i didn't know that league was one big general knowledge test.
I prefer to keep away from all the negativity in the league news these days, i'll read the odd article on the broncos official site but other than that nothing really. Its the pollitical bullshit that gets to me. Its tiresome and i'm sick of people who call themselves league fans bringing the game down from the inside, its ok when union do it but when its our own people destroying the game that gets annoying.
League to me is waiting all week, that anticipation of the weekend of footy. Sitting down on a sunday afternoon and watching the matches. I don't care whos playing if its footy i'm watching. Thats league not all the selection crap and SL bitch fights.
Now all of that you may not give a toss about but hey just felt like saying something. Just remember how when we were kids we had the puriest thoughts before we became wise of the world and the real going ons behind closed doors in league. It was the actual product on the field that mattered and some of you forget that these days.
Please feel free to share your stories about the way you felt when you learnt about the truths of our game. Do you want to go back to being an inocent kid who just loved watching the footy?
Cheers
bronco
I remember before i got the internet that i thought that league was all wonderfull and saint like. I thought every team was perferct and no team was more perfect than mine, the Brisbane Broncos. Those were my first days of league for me, where i was just young and wasn't told the things that went on in the game, i just loved watching the footy.
Those are the days i wish i could go back to. When the political bullshit didn't bother me, i didn't know league had any. I was just a pure fan who loved the game and only the game.
Those were the great days when NZ FTA Telly would show about 3 games a week and they would show the local lion red comp. The glory days i call them. Brisbane never did too well in the ARL. always there or there abouts, the first time i ever saw them win a trophy was in 97. Wellington always used to get cained in the local league comp and upper hutt weren't much better but they were always good to watch, the grass roots of NZ league. North Shore were pretty good then and won it a couple of times i think.
I still have great memories of those days, they were only 4-5 years ago but they seem ages ago. I, like most Kiwi league fans was introduced to the game in 95 when the Warriors hit centre stage. I got bored one day and switched the channel and i guess that i'm in this forum proves that i was hooked from the first moment i saw it. The Broncos won that night but i wasn't a fan right away.For a couple of weeks i was a manly and warriors fan. I then watched the Broncos a bit more and loved their style of play and how they played to entertain and win.
Anyway i'm waddling on. My point is that the internet has given me a real sour taste about league and the fans. I went from thinking my Broncos were perfect to realising that they weren't so perfect and that they caused super league. I learnt about super league for one. I remember at primary school all the other kids would draw funny drawings but i'd draw the ARL logo with the words simply the best under it. I remember actually thinking the Broncos were going to go to the ARL lol. To cut that story short, the Broncos went to SL and so did I.
The internet showed me how all fans didn't just get on wonderfully that we bicker alot and constantly put our sport and its teams and players down. I guess thats life but its hard when your in NZ with very little league in the media and your painting this idealic picture in your head about how great league is.
Now the above may sound as if i hate league but nothing is further from the truth if anything the internet has made me more passionate for the game.
These days i don't like to read a lot of the news stories on the web and some may say i'm out of touch with the game or don't know much about it but i didn't know that league was one big general knowledge test.
I prefer to keep away from all the negativity in the league news these days, i'll read the odd article on the broncos official site but other than that nothing really. Its the pollitical bullshit that gets to me. Its tiresome and i'm sick of people who call themselves league fans bringing the game down from the inside, its ok when union do it but when its our own people destroying the game that gets annoying.
League to me is waiting all week, that anticipation of the weekend of footy. Sitting down on a sunday afternoon and watching the matches. I don't care whos playing if its footy i'm watching. Thats league not all the selection crap and SL bitch fights.
Now all of that you may not give a toss about but hey just felt like saying something. Just remember how when we were kids we had the puriest thoughts before we became wise of the world and the real going ons behind closed doors in league. It was the actual product on the field that mattered and some of you forget that these days.
Please feel free to share your stories about the way you felt when you learnt about the truths of our game. Do you want to go back to being an inocent kid who just loved watching the footy?
Cheers
bronco