things i cast my mind back to include:

Sonny Liston

The Beatles Sing For Shell

Ron Barassi boots with ankle bone pads

ABC 2's scrolling score sheet

Melbourne / Collingwood rivalry

how many can you add/ remember?

jockstraps

not shaking hands before the game

and I went to school with Bryan Kenneally who did not participate in kick to kick at lunchtime

Dressing gowns on the bench (yuk)

Goal umpires dressed in white lab. coats.

Stab passes.

Being beaten by Essendon

????

cricket pitches

Here's mud in your Eye.

Tony Charlton. Jonco footy nicks. Jenkin topliners. Coaches who wore hats and overcoats.

The Milk Board instead of a beer company

Rock candy sticks in team colours

Scanlens bubble gum cards

Esso, Shell, Ampol etc club car stickers

Weg's premiership poster in the Herald

players lying down on a tarpaulin in dressing gowns at three-quarter time

picket fence at the MCG without sponsorship but with team support banners tied on instead

hand knitted footy socks and jumpers (I only had the socks, thanks to my paternal grandmother. Would have been better from my maternal grandfather - he ran a knitting business!)

Listening to the game on 3DB or 3KZ (I think it was) and running outside to kick the footy on the front lawn during quarter, half and three quarter time breaks.

The old Smokers stand in september '87-'88.

players lying down on a tarpaulin in dressing gowns at three-quarter time

picket fence at the MCG without sponsorship but with team support banners tied on instead

hand knitted footy socks and jumpers (I only had the socks, thanks to my paternal grandmother. Would have been better from my maternal grandfather - he ran a knitting business!)

"Melbourne - greatest ever exponents of perfection football"

"Melbourne - Masters Of The MCG"

More:

The Australia v England Test Series in England

The VW Beetle - 'highest selling car under one thousand (pounds).

Sunball - guessing where the football is in a 'photoshopped' picture

Video Village with Danny Webb 4.00pm Channel 7, My Favourite Martian, League Replay, The Tarax Show.

Ron Barassi

Further to Bush Demon's list:

Happy Hammond, Ron Blasket, Gerry Gee, Uncle Norman, Princess Panda, King Corky King of the Kids, Funny Face Gordon

Magic Circle Club, Fred Bear (forget about Humphrey)

Uncle Doug

Mike Furber, The Throb, The Loved Ones, The Groop

Thumping Tum, Tom Foolery

Coca Cola YoYos

Throw downs

Listening to the game on 3DB or 3KZ (I think it was) and running outside to kick the footy on the front lawn during quarter, half and three quarter time breaks.

The frustration of having our game on 3UZ or 3DB only to get a sentence of commentary before they crossed to the races at Manangatang or wherever.

And while on radio, Jack Dyer's mangled English ("Mark Lee's arms go up like giant testicles', or something like that)

Further to Bush Demon's list:

Happy Hammond, Ron Blasket, Gerry Gee, Uncle Norman, Princess Panda, King Corky King of the Kids, Funny Face Gordon

Magic Circle Club, Fred Bear (forget about Humphrey)

Uncle Doug

Mike Furber, The Throb, The Loved Ones, The Groop

Thumping Tum, Tom Foolery

Coca Cola YoYos

Throw downs

Peters Pal Club

Argonauts

Further to Bush Demon's list:

Happy Hammond, Ron Blasket, Gerry Gee, Uncle Norman, Princess Panda, King Corky King of the Kids, Funny Face Gordon

Magic Circle Club, Fred Bear (forget about Humphrey)

Uncle Doug

Mike Furber, The Throb, The Loved Ones, The Groop

Thumping Tum, Tom Foolery

Coca Cola YoYos

Throw downs

Uncle Norman looked like a Volkswagon with the doors open.

I miss ALL the above...

Peters Pal Club

Argonauts

Zig and Zag - who I last saw in the late '70's doing slightly blue drug related humour between bands at a Stoned Again show at Prahran's Astor Theatre, just before the police came in and closed the whole show down.

Zig and Zag - who I last saw in the late '70's doing slightly blue drug related humour between bands at a Stoned Again show at Prahran's Astor Theatre, just before the police came in and closed the whole show down.

A pedophile can't be an icon hardtack in my book

A pedophile can't be an icon hardtack in my book

I wasn't aware of that... I withdraw my nomination :-)

I wasn't aware of that... I withdraw my nomination :-)

thats all right....figured you didn't know

I know it has been a hell of a long time since a flag..........but.....that long??

Pelaco Inquest.

Footy Teams 9pm Thursdays ?3AW?

players lying down on a tarpaulin in dressing gowns at three-quarter time

picket fence at the MCG without sponsorship but with team support banners tied on instead

hand knitted footy socks and jumpers (I only had the socks, thanks to my paternal grandmother. Would have been better from my maternal grandfather - he ran a knitting business!)