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Giant heads at the games

Yossarian
in Melbourne Demons

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Are we the only team that has giant heads of our players in the crowd? Why do we do it? Surely it'd be weird as a player seeing your giant smiling head looking down at you. It's weird isn't it?

 

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    no weirder than kicking around an inflated pigskin and making big bucks

    4 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

    Are we the only team that has giant heads of our players in the crowd? Why do we do it? Surely it'd be weird as a player seeing your giant smiling head looking down at you. It's weird isn't it?

     

     

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    16 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    no weirder than kicking around an inflated pigskin and making big bucks

     

    Let's not get existential. Pretty sure it's just us that does the giant heads. It's weird.

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    I believe that Geelong thought this may have happened.

    But then they just realized Brad Ottens was sitting with the cheer squad.

    Edited by Colin B. Flaubert

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    Sheesh.. 

    Far worse [censored] going in the world then worrying about a couple of giant cardboard heads at a football game.

     

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    Sounds like a question for the next AGM. 

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    Wouldn't mind seeing a few hundred giant heads of fans in the empty stadiums just to make things a bit fun.

    Maybe Nibbler's mum beaming down on everyone and giving blessings to all good Demons! :D

    Could be a raffle prize - "Be the giant head for round 17."

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    All fun and games till ya sitting behind the giant heads.

    Edited by Fork 'em

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    38 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

    All fun and games till ya sitting behind the giant heads.

    Yeah - every time I see them I think how annoyed I’d be to be sitting behind ‘em.

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    To answer the question, I'm certain I saw another club's cheersqusd had then earlier in the year but can't remember who

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    2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

    sure beats the bugler

    Perhaps they could double up and have a bloke playing a comically giant bugle? ???

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    2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

    sure beats the bugler

    Oh man, so much. I don't care about our reputation as toffs, but that used to kill me.

    Looks like no one else is curious.

    The only other time I've seen them is something like a giant Kim Kardashian putting off a free throw in the NBA. Where do they even get them from?

     

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    Someone in the press reads this thread and next thing you know a headline reads "Demons concerned about too many big heads".

    I like our oversized heads.

    MOAR HEADZ i say !!

     

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    Love them.

    No issues at all, I think that add great colour to the crowd.

    I'm sure that someone on here could confirm, but I think they belong to the Demon Army (or were at least instigated by them) and were found to be a great way to include members.  On the basis that they are used in the Demon Army, I don't think there'd be any real objections to them from the other people sitting around them ( i.e. other members of the Demon Army ).

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    2 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

    To answer the question, I'm certain I saw another club's cheersqusd had then earlier in the year but can't remember who

    Not surprising as the ball doesnt tend to go up our opponents end lately...

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    50 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

    Oh man, so much. I don't care about our reputation as toffs, but that used to kill me.

    Looks like no one else is curious.

    The only other time I've seen them is something like a giant Kim Kardashian putting off a free throw in the NBA. Where do they even get them from?

     

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    24 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    Love them.

    No issues at all, I think that add great colour to the crowd.

    I'm sure that someone on here could confirm, but I think they belong to the Demon Army (or were at least instigated by them) and were found to be a great way to include members.  On the basis that they are used in the Demon Army, I don't think there'd be any real objections to them from the other people sitting around them ( i.e. other members of the Demon Army ).

    correct a member of the demon army got them organised

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    41 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

    Not surprising as the ball doesnt tend to go up our opponents end lately...

    Yes quite right. It's only our boots that are going up our opponent's ends this year

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    7 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Sheesh.. 

    Far worse [censored] going in the world then worrying about a couple of giant cardboard heads at a football game.

     

    Yeah, there’s wars, famine and a pandemic, so let’s not talk about anything else ever.

    Might as well close the site down if “there’s worse things happening” is the barrier of entry for a conversation. Pretty much everything we worry about on here is trivial compared to the world’s problems.

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    9 hours ago, daisycutter said:

    sure beats the bugler

    Bring back the bugler

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    8 hours ago, ding said:

    I like our oversized heads.

    Me too, but I'm also fond of a little head.

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