Brett Kirk, Buddhism and An Annoucement

In an industry where the valued labour resembles something out of a Monty Python sketch, it is great that someone of the calibre of Brett Kirk would devoted his services in order to enlighten the populace of what I'm sure are the many intricacies of AFL. Kirk is an enlightened man himself, and not just because he is a practicing Buddhist, but also because he co-captained his Sydney Swans to a premiership in 2005. "Captain Kirk" now of course rides the boundary (rides hard or hardly rides?) for Channel 7 on Saturday arvos.

It has been about a month since Kirk found fame on the internets as a "weirdo". Look, I won't deny I am a bit of a smarty-pants, so I really don't have any credibility, but, but, bahtttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Good on him for trying to bring something a bit different. There's nothing wrong with changing it up a little bit. But watching footy - or almost any sport - is one of the most tangible ways of espousing conservatism. You want a good contest between two relatively-even sides. You don't want "quasi-intellectual corporate speech" (taken from a commenter). A sports watcher just can't handle perverse outside forces on game day. That's why people lock themselves up in the "man cave" (nothing subtle at all) like it's the apocalypse - the intellectualism that Kirk brought with those comments was too much for them. I haven't watched "Saturday arvo" footy since then to see if Kirky responded - one newspaper article suggested he was receiving "help" in his on-camera performance - because apart from the whingeing about the Tigers to anyone who'll listen, footy doesn't much concern me. If you've seen one match, you've seen them all. People go for one reason, and one reason alone: to get blind drunk.

Well, hang on, isn't that the modus vivendi behind most of the things that people do? It's either that, or getting laid. Hmmm, if only one could find the real reason that people go to AFL matches? Could it be to support their teams? Far too obvious, my good man

If Kirk was well-endowed in the chest region, the feedback might have been different. As it is, Kirk must rely on his well-endowed soul - by way of his Buddhistism - to get past this adversity.

Moving forward, Australians

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The Announcement: I may or may not be somewhat less active on this blog in the next few weeks (the crowd goes mild) as I will be focussing on another blog for an assignment. It will detail the rise of China and India in the Asian Century. I will be setting up either a Wordpress or a Tumblr because Blogspot (with all due respect, of course) is somewhat lacking in the design department. It's either that, or I'm a crap designer.  I'll give you all the news as it comes to hand. 

      

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