It'll be alright on the night

Watching yesterday's AFL Grand Final on television I noticed that once again the pre match 'entertainment' seemed reasonably restrained and organised. The AFL's efforts in this regard seem every year to be in stark contrast to what the NRL manages on it's 'one day of the year'

It is a rare year when some calamity or other doesn't befall the NRL's pre match festivities.

Those that remain in my memory include the year when communications sponsor Optus lowered a giant television onto the arena which fell apart prior to landing bringing the performance to a perfunctory halt.


Then there was the year when the flag bearing parachutists were blown off course by the wind and they landed on the stadium roof and surrounding car parks, none of them hitting the intended target; the playing field.


And what about the time when the entire cast of 42nd Street was left stranded across the field unable to perform because officials had forgotten to bring the music tape they were to use for their performance?


Or the year that Billy Idol was driven onto the field in some fancy car then waited an eternity to perform before being driven off again without uttering a note because of an electrical fault that crippled his sound system.

I wonder what will happen next Sunday?