Lucky for me XL gets The Ocho. That's right! This weekend I'm taking my most recent copy of OSQ and heading down to XL's lair to watch the Australian Rules Football Grand Final, live at midnight. My Geelong Cats take on The Port Adelaid Power in a game that holds a lot of story lines. The Cats last loss (and one of only 3 in 24 total games played this year) came at the hands of Port back on August 26th.
The Cat's are also aiming to go undefeated in Melbourne this year, having won all their previous games at MCG and Telstra Dome so far. If they do win, they will also become the first Victorian team to win since Essendon did it back in 2000. That would be like as big to the people of Victoria as a Stanley Cup would be to the people of Canada after waiting since '93 to see one of their teams hoist it.
One other storyline revolves around how the Cats players will react to Jimmy Bartel wining the Brownlow Medal, which is like the Aussie Rules MVP. Most people thought the winner would be Bartel's teammate, Gary Ablett, who finished 6th in the poling. Will Ablett resent it? Will Bartel let it go to his head? Will they worry about that all later and go out and kick ass? We'll see. If you have Directv then sign up for Chanel 615 and watch on Friday night at Midnight.
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