“Mick Fanning being interviewed after I assume 40 beers was the icing on the cake.”
If you’re an Australian living on its eastern mainland flank, but not including Victoria, you’ll be aware there was a rugby league grand final last night and that a team called Penrith, which is a little town at the foot of the Blue Mountains, won a tremendously exciting match.
And, the three-time world champ Michael Eugene Fanning, who was born in Penrith in 1981 before moving to Tweed Heads in 1993, was in the thick of the celebrations, looking very much like a pink-faced cherub amid the sweating brown bodies.
Following the game, Fanning, forty-two and very much nourished by the win, was interviewed by a television reporter and gave a performance that has been unanimously praised by football fans on social media.
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“Mick Fanning ain’t driving the Panthers bus tonight.”
“I reckon Mick Fanning has had a beer or 20!!”
“Mick Fanning is smashed haha.”
As he strolled through the winning players, Mick responds to questioning with,
“Are you kidding? This is the best thing ever. Oh my god, this is sooo amazingl, like, phew, look at it!”
Tears in Kelly Slater’s camp, however, as Mick, a straight-shooter if ever there was one, tells the reporter that Penrith’s co- captain Nathan Clearly is “the greatest athlete on earth” usurping common opinion, including mine, that Slater is the greatest sportsman of any era and medium.
Not Mick.
“Seriously, I swear to God, (Cleary’s) the greatest athlete on earth,” repeats Mick. “He went absolutely loony.”
Pointed.
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Kick tennis is for fags
Well I guess now we know where elo learned to do drunken fact-averse hyperbole
Thank fuck for mick fanning , fat drunk and hilarious
Way better than Gaby and nymar pulling each other off for brazil
Got to wonder how he got let loose on the field though ?
Fanning has to have two dicks , you can’t be that dumb with just one.
Chuck a dress on him and Dez is salivating!
Xox
So he gave up on the bottle opener thing apparently. That seemed such a smart gimmick.
Yeah… gim’Mick money!
You’ll never get the Penrith out of him 😂😂. He should thank his Mum everyday and twice on Sunday that she moved them from Penrith to the GC
I’m an Aussie living in NZ. I heard AFL recently described like this.
“Most popular sport in Aus or not, it is terrible, have you ever seen it live? Sucks the very life out of you.
About a hundred interchangeable people running around after what seems like a loose chicken over a playing field the size of a national park essentially fumbling for hours straight being interrupted continuously by the sound of a whistle every 3 or 4 seconds.
Anyone that can stand to either play or watch what as an overseas independent is the worst sport I’ve ever seen worldwide deserves ten million dollars”
Jan Brady eat your heart out.
Each to their own, but seltzer is devil’s piss. Grow a gut like everyone else.
Mick is rumoured to have phoned Ivan at halftime with an updated game plan…
Kelly hates beer
Funny guy eh!?
beakin nose says inside Val’s is pumping…live cam…kid’s having fun. adult swim. youngster’s first!
Back to reading the article.
I’m surprised Chas isn’t from Eugene, Oregon.
Mick Fanning is so rad.
Ik…He just the ultimate WSL retiree poster boy.
You think about this angle so often.
My kink is big Polynesians getting around with a stinky finger on a televised and professionally played sport.
Well more so an adoration of the absurdity than a kink.
Xox
They’re throwing up mixed gang signs, or maybe that’s how they roll, confusing nonetheless.
Pretty sure both are doing a version of ‘two in the pink… etc”.
Stay classy Penrith.
“Shocking”
So is no-0ne here watching RWC? I have been to every one and the vibe is so much better than any modern surf comp.
Bells and Gradjagan recently finished me – see previous posts
Sitting in a cold wet bells car park watching a small TV with no sound as no room on winki for public.
Water colder than Scotland.
I am thinking of sponsoring a poor Moroccan surf team – anyone in the world need more help now?
Rotund Walrus Cunnilingus?
Revolting Wart Catheters?
Rancid Women fae Cumbernauld?
Ridiculous Whippersnipper Circumcision?
Rio Waida’s Cousin
Did anyone get their bum fingered?
Seriously that is a legit question with legitimate context. Fuck yeah. I love a slow burn. Fuck I’m good ☺️
Xox
Or drink their own piss fresh out
A bubbler! Gosh the NFL needs to catch up, not to mention the WSL. Unless they tell us the Elo move.
Xox
Joel Monaghan-esque surely!
He should have just started singing im on smoko.