This has been getting on my goat for a while, and I have stewed over it all weekend looking for an answer.... Why do apparently tough men playing what some call the toughest game in the world insist on dressing up like women? There is a long line of nufties who seem to think it is the height of humour to get dolled up, tuck the toys between the legs and prance around like a woman. Why? Is there some unexplained pent up and unrealised pressure for these 'tough men' to be cross dressers? Is there some latent homosexuality within the ranks of the NRL? Is packing a scrum with a bunch of blokes only a pathway to packing fudge with them? Is a 'bun' as they affectionately call it as perpetrated by Curranulla and the Bulldogs amongst others merely a smoke screen for an excuse to bat off in company and spray your team mates with baby batter? Don't get me wrong here, I love a laugh as much as the next bloke if not more so but this is not funny. This a long and loud cry for help from some very confused young men searching for some sexual chocolate in their preferred flavour.For former Panther and footballing media commentator Mark Geyer, the latest in a long line of skirt wearing footballers, it puts into order a lot of his life issues--the suspensions, the violent outbursts, the positive drug test, the failure to make training for Balmain, the season with Umina on the Central Coast...it was all a cry for help.
I had respect for Mark Geyer, but now I just wish that Wally had snotted him good back in the 1991 Origin and maybe whacked some sense into him.
