{"id":1953,"date":"2015-04-21T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yumstudio.com.au\/footy\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:14:03","slug":"biffs-bumps-and-brawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footy.yumstudio.com.au\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"Biffs, Bumps and Brawlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"121114_DraftedLarge\"<\/a>Before we realised the long-term potential for groundhog day style damage\u00a0from a king hit behind play, we excused footy commentary that oscillated between “Ohhhs!!” and “Wow!!!” and the elegant “It’s On!!!”\u00a0\u00a0so long as within the parentheis of brawls, bumps and bruising antics on the field. We’ve since turned back from the more violent aspects of the game, particularly that fine line between rules and cage fighting. The watershed was probably Byron Picketts \u00a0“say goodnight” shirtfont on Hawk Brendan Krummel that effectively killed the bump in 1999 that had lived at the top of the hard but fair food AFL food chain since\u00a0the possum skin evolved into the pigskin. While the brawls are erased, the bump just will not die despite the games rule makers intentions to eradicate it’s \u00a0more perilous consequences.<\/p>\n