Groupies and the AFL

[bombermick]

This thread makes me think of another high profile sportsman in Marat Safin. Marat, you may recall was the highly-talented, but less than workmanlike wonderkid from Russia who all Australians remember as having the best entourage known to man during his final against Thomas Johansson. Despite losing the unlosable final that day, I'm sure those blonde beauties made him forget all about tennis. Lucky bastard.

 

[Dry Rot]

Great OP and hats off to all contributors - very subtle posts avoiding defamation concerns.

Good read.

 

[The_Eagles]

Some people just want you to be footballers when you're out on the town. If you're tall and fit (especially with other tall and fit guys), and out on the town after an AFL match some people ask if you play footy...it's tempting to bullshit and you can get free drinks

 

[HyperAgressiveDonk]

There are a couple of groupies who post on BF reguarly. I could name 2 off the top of my head..........

 

[Rod Stroker]

Leeching off footballers to nail some crumpet? The low self esteem of some of the posters on here is hilarious.

 

[Bloods Rule!]

Leeching off footballers to nail some crumpet? The low self esteem of some of the posters on here is hilarious.

The irony of your name is breathtaking.

Meanwhile, the Swannies get so much action that even some fans have groupies.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

For those without the build of AFL footballer - may i suggest trying out the following, if nothing else they provide great hilarity, but higher than average success.

* American backpackers studying at Berkley in California, if one of you suck with the accent, you can be the aussie friend

* Two guys out - one is gay, one is straight. The gay guy is accepted and non-threatening and the straight guy is cool because he isn't homophobic. Note - be the gay guy - the success rate is much better

* Interstate travellers staying at the local 5* hotel over on an IT convention. I might just add this is also a good way to get into nightclubs without queuing. I'd call the manager of the hotel on the way to the club - pretended to be the Concierge at the Hilton and ask if I could put the names of some guests on the door - worked everytime.

 

[KnaveyBlue]

If you don't have a mate who plays footy or similar and you're a young man, get one!

Plenty of handball receives to be had.

I LOL'd!!

But seriously, I think you guys should stop talking about women in this way. They're smart, deep and complex people who value kindness, a sense of humour and personality above all else.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Leeching off footballers to nail some crumpet? The low self esteem of some of the posters on here is hilarious.

I'd even nail the crumpet's fat friend. That how low i am

 

[Allefgib]

I LOL'd!!

But seriously, I think you guys should stop talking about women in this way. They're smart, deep and complex people who value kindness, a sense of humour and personality above all else.

But women are people too...!

 

[Damon_3388]

Anyone who doubts that a groupie culture exists in professional sports should read Bad As I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman. Aside from being a great read (probably my favourite book, fiction or non-fiction), he spells out in plain terms that if you're a professional athlete (even one of relatively minor standing within your sport), you've pretty much got a "smorgasboard" available to you at any given time. I'm sure it's no different for Australian athletes either.

There was a show on SBS a few years ago that detailed the sex culture (mainly in rugby league) from both sides of the fence (the players and the women), and it showed that there's definitely a lot of women "on the prowl", and they're not all the innocent, exploited victims the sensationalist media makes them out to be. I've even known girls who've unashamedly played the groupie for suburban level footballers, such is the pulling power of the even the semi-professional athlete.

I'm not saying that I necessarily approve of the culture (although I think people should be allowed to do what they like, within reason), nor would necessarily partake in it myself (given that I choose not to engage in promiscuous sex), but it's undeniably out there, and very much an active culture.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

During the mid season break/split round a number of years ago I was listening to the ABC/774 Melbourne. The Coodabeens were on and they were talking mainly local football leagues.

The were talking to a chick on the phone from Adelaide, she was a member of a group called, IIRC, 'something Hunters'. The group members primary objective was to hook up with footballers whether it be SANFL or AFL. The ultimate was to get an AFL player and be invited to the Brownlow Medal Count.

She described some of their methods of attack with the most extreme being to actually handcuff themselves to a player in a nightclub.

Initiation into the group was by way of having to eat a bucket of KFC and drink a slab.

I remember many a time looking the goods with a random back in the late 80s and early 90s but as soon as the Geelong players walked in, it was game over.

In the mid 90s when I was in the Navy I was based in Sydney for a month doing a course. The course coincided with Grand Final weekend, I walked up to The Cross and decided to go to the Aussie Rules Club. The Swans Reserves had won the Premiership the day before and when I went upstairs all the players were up there. I knew one of the players from back in Geelong and he just told the people behind the bar that I was a player so it was free drinks and chicks all night. Being a non footy town none of them had any idea.

Magic night. Even got sledged by Troy Luff on the way out for drinking all their piss, lol.

 

[loz14]

During the mid season break/split round a number of years ago I was listening to the ABC/774 Melbourne. The Coodabeens were on and they were talking mainly local football leagues.

The were talking to a chick on the phone from Adelaide, she was a member of a group called, IIRC, 'something Hunters'. The group members primary objective was to hook up with footballers whether it be SANFL or AFL. The ultimate was to get an AFL player and be invited to the Brownlow Medal Count.

She described some of their methods of attack with the most extreme being to actually handcuff themselves to a player in a nightclub.

Initiation into the group was by way of having to eat a bucket of KFC and drink a slab.

I read an article in Sports Illustrated many years ago that was exactly this. Truly sad

On the Flip Side there are girls out there that chose to avoid AFL player in order to protect their love of the game & their team because lets be serious...a massive % of players especially the young ones think their Hawthorn doesn't stink &/or are total tools.

 

[gaelictiogar]

I'm an AFL groupie....Riewoldt Phwoar!!!

 

[Hawks_Fan]

For those without the build of AFL footballer - may i suggest trying out the following, if nothing else they provide great hilarity, but higher than average success.

* Two guys out - one is gay, one is straight. The gay guy is accepted and non-threatening and the straight guy is cool because he isn't homophobic. Note - be the gay guy - the success rate is much better

ROFL

I did that one night as a joke. A chick sat opposite to myself, I introduced myself and accused my mate as being gay. I wasn't trying to pick her up, I just said it as a joke. Anyways, I went home with her.

 

[LordLucifer]

Who knows how many of us will end up marrying one of these girls without ever knowing what she used to get up to... or still does.

Warnie did !!

 

[YouIdiot]

Leeching off footballers to nail some crumpet? The low self esteem of some of the posters on here is hilarious.

Yeah, I'm sure when they're balls deep in some blonde bombshell, they feel terrible about themselves because they didn't 'earn it' in a more honourable fashion

Honestly, if a mans self esteem were attached to the level of humiliation involved in the majority of their 'crumpeting', there wouldn't be many of us left. Brothels would have to provide mass graves out the back door, and there wouldn't be many weekend CEO's returning to the factory floor on a Monday morning.

 

[Brad Roo]

This is all about human instincts.

If blokes started worshiping the Elephant Man, women would queue up a mile to have sex with him.

 

[Jean Claude Vas Deferens]

Initiation into the group was by way of having to eat a bucket of KFC and drink a slab.

Now that's my kind of girl!

 

[captain peanut]

great OP and some entertaining comments in response. the media is forever propogating this line of footballers attitudes to women having to change etc. sure there may be an element of that, but just as surely there are women who go out on weekends with the primary aim of shagging a footballer, most of whom couldn't give a rats toss bag (hi blighty) whether their potential targets are married, engaged, attached. where is the focus on these women with little moral standing?

and to add my 2 cents worth to the discussion from my own experiences, i can still recall a group of 3 female friends back in my uni days, all of whom were what you might call easy on the eye, who used to target venues that afl footballers were known to attend. their aim was to snag a different player each weekend, and there weren't many mondays that they didn't have a juicy story to tell about their weekend conquests during the footy season

even funnier in the last year of uni they decided it was going to be a huge party year before working life started and one of their functions was to hold their own vote count on brownlow night, appropriately titled 'the downlow medal'. i kid you not they kept tabs of their afl conquests throughout the year, on a week by week or should i say round by round basis. they then got together brownlow night, had a few drinks and counted their 'votes' for the year round by round - 3 votes for sex with an afl player, 2 for a lesser act and 1 vote for a pash

they tallied them up and the winner received the downlow medal which was a sex toy plastered with afl club stickers and 3 player bagdes representing the one player that each girl thought was the best of her afl shags for the year. from what i am told they did of course have a few quiet rounds like any players struggling through a long season but overall their performances would have seen them finish top 4!!!

 

[YouIdiot]

Absolute gold.

I love how the focus is always on how poorly the men treat the women...

Imagine if groups of every day men were 'targeting' netballers. Following them to clubs, hanging around their hotels, having competitions, propositioning them with no shame while their boyfriends/husbands are in the same room... it would be considered predatory and sleazy, and there would be moral outrage.

It isn't to say some footballers don't treat women like rubbish, but it happens both ways.

If I were a woman, I would actually be offended that the moral police consider my gender so weak they always need to defend us from the big bad men. There are many self empowered women who are just as aggressive and promiscuous with their sexualities as are the men.

Where is the sympathy for the poor young AFL player that is thrust in to the public limelight and targeted by predatory women? lol... the suggestion sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? But why? Reverse the gender and you could easily make the argument.

 

[YouIdiot]

This thread is great, probably lots of stories to be told. Hopefully no one takes it the wrong way, as some form of 'big noting'. There are 800 or so listed AFL players any given year, it isn't all that uncommon to be buddies with a couple of past or present players (especially if you're in Melbourne), just like it isn't uncommon to be buddies with a lawyer or an electrician.

Here is a story from my younger years that personifies the attitudes of some of the girls...

A mate who played AFL, 70 or so games to his name before being delisted, is now married to a girl who walked straight up to him at *insert then popular AFL player hangout* and started kissing him. She had a bit of a name in the industry, and my poor old buddy ended up marrying her.

Anyways, from that romantic first meeting, they started seeing each other a lot. Out with her and her friends one night a year or so later, one of her friends pulled me aside and said 'if you ever want to get a girlfriend, you shouldn't hang out with XX, because girls will always go for the AFL player'.

It was an amazing piece of advise given I didn't want a gf, I was doing just fine, and the mate she was talking about was, and still is, cheating his ass off.

Also, the comment definitely wasn't true of all women... one of the better pulls (by my average standards ) of my young career was the much hotter friend of a girl who approached my AFL mate... her and I were quietly laughing at how desperate her friend was, which a great ice breaker. She had a moral objection to hooking up with footballers (her friend probably turned her off the practice) and somehow I was deemed a suitable candidate for the pants party.

I am glad I got some insight in to the workings of such women. Not all are like that, and those that are have every right to be... but it teaches you a little something about what is out there!

For every girl that is an AFL (or similar) groupie type, there is a girl who finds the practice completely repulsive and belittling.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

If you don't have a mate who plays footy or similar and you're a young man, get one!

Plenty of handball receives to be had. Just have him tell them you're on the rookie list or something, unbelievable.

Who knows how many of us will end up marrying one of these girls without ever knowing what she used to get up to... or still does.

Haha.
I once read that one of the conditions of being Peter Brock's secretary was to perform "extra duties". Upon googling "Peter Brock secretary" some couple that were running a motel or something in QLand were advertising that the wife used to be Peter Brocks secretary.

 

[hilly]

Shocked to read that there are some loose women out there who like bedding footballers.

Nonetheless, five stars

 

[Marlin01]

I flew over to Melbourne with my Mrs on the weekend to watch the Eagles V Tigers game and generally have a good time. The plan was to watch a great win and celebrate at the post-game function. Anyway, as you can imagine, my mood was somewhat darkened by the time the final siren rang and I was having second thoughts about attending the post-game function. I was worried I'd give the players a piece of my mind and end up getting escorted from the function. However, by the time I'd walked from my seat to where the function was being held, I'd cooled off a bit and felt like a drink anyway, so we went in.

What I saw amazed me. In my head I had visions of the players being marched up on stage to a chorus of boos and having rotten vegetables thrown at them. The reality was significantly different. The players were absolutely hero-worshipped from the moment they entered the room. It wasn't just young females either. There were women who must have been 40 years or older, as well as adult men, clambering all over the players to have photos taken. Anyone would have thought they'd just won the GF.

It got me thinking how hard it must be, particularly for young players, to keep a grip on reality, when you can turn in the performance that the Eagles did and still be the focus of adoration and worship, even in another state. I've known previous Eagles players and what they have got up to, but I'd always thought that they were receiving the spoils of success. To see complete failure rewarded with open admiration was a bit sickening.