I have been “rather”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament “absurdly”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXIX “lucky”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_World_Series “with”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_UEFA_Champions_League_Final “sporting”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006-07_Ashes “results”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Cricket_World_Cup” recently. But despite all this good fortune, I was still hoping for one more good result. That was the first ever sporting team I seriously followed, the Geelong football club, to win a Premiership. And, as many of you will know by now, on Saturday they did. I got to see most of the game, over a rather dodgy internet connection, but it was pretty good to see the game even in lo-res.

I never really expected Geelong would win after all their disasters of the recent past. What I absolutely wouldn’t have expected was to see them win, host a small party in the US for some local Australians watching the game, and have the story of the party written up back in the Geelong paper. That didn’t happen to me, but it did happen to “Mark Johnston”:http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2007/10/01/7434_news.html. It turns out that several of the best and brightest philosophers are Geelong fans. (As they should be, being so attached to the true and the good.) Anyway, well done Mark on what seems to have been as successful a footy-watching party as can be imagined!

Thanks to Michael Smith for the link.

PS: I’m aware that I have too many pro-attitudes towards sporting teams. I’m trying to cut back. So we won’t have obsessive posts here about the Rugby World Cup, for instance. About the baseball playoffs, we make no promises…