grumbleguts
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I have a different slightly more personally pleasing reason for wanting to thank the hawks. Yes the years of pleasure while we constantly believed when we were five goals down that there was always a chance. Expecting greatness and having it provided year after year.
But one particular event sticks out in my mind. I was watching the hawks play in 2005, we were playing port adelaide, and they were winning at quarter time, 7.3.45 to 3.1.19 (I sepcifically remember that scoreline because of what followed.
My son (on here as skwunk) was 3 and a half. He hadn't watched a footy game before but loved numbers. He noticed the scoreline and said "what are the numbers?" I told him the first number was goals and the second was behinds and the third was the total score. He asked "Is a goal worth 6 and a behind worth 1?"
I said yes. He then proceeded to work out other scoring systems that would match that score line and told me: That is the only one that works for that score. He then went on and created other scoring systems and solved them as a result of watching that match.
A few months later (when he'd turned 4) he'd worked out (in the back seat of the car) no pen nor paper nor calculator, the number of seconds in a week, just for kicks. Recently he competed in the National AMC (Australian Mathematics Competition) at year ten level (he is 14) 2600 of Australia's school's very best matheticians in year 10 took part (out of 360,000 year ten students) he came in the 99th percentile (somewhere between 52nd and 26th in the country, a year younger than all other entrants. While he already had a love of numbers, Hawthorn, in their inimitable fashion played their role in focusing his love of numbers - arithmetic - into mathematics.
Now he loves calculus, complex numbers, matrices and I can narrow down to that one moment during the quarter time break in that match (in which we got creamed) where he went from being able to add and subtract and multiply to really getting how numbers worked. essentially Hawthorn gave him his first pair of simultaneous equations.
I know what you're thinking, Port Adelaide helped. Fcuk them.
But one particular event sticks out in my mind. I was watching the hawks play in 2005, we were playing port adelaide, and they were winning at quarter time, 7.3.45 to 3.1.19 (I sepcifically remember that scoreline because of what followed.
My son (on here as skwunk) was 3 and a half. He hadn't watched a footy game before but loved numbers. He noticed the scoreline and said "what are the numbers?" I told him the first number was goals and the second was behinds and the third was the total score. He asked "Is a goal worth 6 and a behind worth 1?"
I said yes. He then proceeded to work out other scoring systems that would match that score line and told me: That is the only one that works for that score. He then went on and created other scoring systems and solved them as a result of watching that match.
A few months later (when he'd turned 4) he'd worked out (in the back seat of the car) no pen nor paper nor calculator, the number of seconds in a week, just for kicks. Recently he competed in the National AMC (Australian Mathematics Competition) at year ten level (he is 14) 2600 of Australia's school's very best matheticians in year 10 took part (out of 360,000 year ten students) he came in the 99th percentile (somewhere between 52nd and 26th in the country, a year younger than all other entrants. While he already had a love of numbers, Hawthorn, in their inimitable fashion played their role in focusing his love of numbers - arithmetic - into mathematics.
Now he loves calculus, complex numbers, matrices and I can narrow down to that one moment during the quarter time break in that match (in which we got creamed) where he went from being able to add and subtract and multiply to really getting how numbers worked. essentially Hawthorn gave him his first pair of simultaneous equations.
I know what you're thinking, Port Adelaide helped. Fcuk them.
(he died in 2007 
