Orchestrated click and rage bait......Top shelf football is now an entertainment industry more than a skilled tough sport.
As product and full package it needs the gossip, the suspense, the rumours, the innuendo for turkeys to gobble up.
And don't forget the product placement, the ads, with the links/pop ups strategically positioned on our phones, computers and TVs.
CEO's and hightly paid media performers are now treated as newsworthy and are flooding our social media feeds now like never before....changing clubs/networks/getting into shitstorms....
Caro's arrow, Lordo's deep dive, Kano volcano and Nathan Browns media ocre just to name 4, when theres heaps more....
Burnie Vince rings MMM and puts on the voice as an aggressive whinger 'Tom from Torquay' or Todd from Barwon Heads'
that most swallow up as gospel.
Look at some of the crap on free to air like Mafs, Kitchen Rules, The Block....lies, and rehearsed script written productions that often use actors that rate thru the roof.
AFL is now more about the off field dramas than the game itself as it covers up how footy is now not for the purists anymore. Controversy is blown out of proportion, Laura Kane is highly paid to follow this model.
I'm tipping 5-10% of the Grand Final crowd arn't even football followers or regulars....how many rock stars/TV celebs, Kate Perrys entourage, Albo and his mates, Ansett/Telsta/Mcdonals big wigs, Welcome to county dancers and smoke ceremony reps and freeloaders, competition winners that bought a Toyota or a slab of Jim Beams or a fridge from Harvey Norman???
I have had a gutful, I hope it's 8°C with hail and 100 mph winds and a streaker runs on and rips off Katy Perry's top.
rant over.
