Choose Mayo

Culchie

Choose Mayo

Choose pain, heartache, depression...choose to place
your faith in false gods adorned with tight shorts,
false tans and braids...chose whether or not to wear your county colours for fear of ridicule should you beat the wrong end of another hammering...choose falsehope at the start of each FBD League campaign.

Choose Galway as the enemy, Roscommon as an annoyance,
Sligo as soccer heads, Leitrim as your favourite
underdogs,Choose Dublin for a Mayo builder to build
500 appartments on Hill 16....choose to wish Padraig Joyce was born our
side of the border...choose McHale Park as mecca, Tuam
as a hay shed, Hyde as a hell-hole...choose to park in
the old bacon factory, stand under the score board,
watch the girls go by with fake tan dripping from the
night before.

Choose whether to travel up to Croker the day before
or the morning of the big match...choose whether or
not to take home that Cork girl you met in
Roddys...choose a big mighty fry before the match in
your sisters place...choose too many pints before the
match.in The Auld Triangle..choose the Big Tree after the match...choose
to go on the piss even though we lost again.

Choose to hope that Moran finally gets it right,
O'Mahony hangs around if Moran doesn't...choose to
forget Maughan and Holmes but thank him for the league
title...choose to dream about what it would have been
like if we had won in 1996, choose to forget about
1997 and 2004.

Choose to be a Garda, Civil Servant, plasterer,
carpenter, plumber, electrician, teacher,Accountant,
nurse...choose a flat in Drumcondra, Phibsboro,
Rathmines...choose to buy a house in Ballycullen,
Carpenterstown, Lucan.or Ennis Co Clare..choose Rody Bolands, the
Portobello, Flannerys, Coppers, McGowans, Johnnos or The Lantern in Charlestown...choose the
Manhattan, Giggs Place for eating.

Choose to leave your place of birth at the tender age
of 17...choose to go to college in Galway, Sligo, UL,
UCD or get the start with the big brother in
Dublin...choose only to return home for Christmas,
Easter, the local town festival, Connacht Championship
fixtures...choose whether or not to apply for a job in
the one local factory and accept half your current
wage in the hope that life will be better than the rat
race in the big smoke.

Choose Cox's, Rockys, Mantra, Long Necks to
drink...choose Baxter, Volex, Coca Cola to
work...choose Breaffy House, Castlecourt Hotel, Hotel
Westport, Pontoon Bridge, Downhill Hotel, The Landmark, to get
married...choose Enniscrone for holidays...choose the
Westhern, The Cannacht Telegraph, the Mayo News, Mis
Whest Radio.

Choose long summer days in the bog, driving a tractor
at 12, going to the local mart as a big day out...choose your first car a souped up Jap import, on your mothers insurance, don't tax it until you are
caught...choose the site your father leaves you and to
build a unimaginatively designed mansion on it.

Choose the two teacher school for primary education,
the big school in town for secondary...choose to go
down town for lunch, play pool in the pub, hope the
convent girls notice you...choose getting a pint in
the local at 16, seeing your father in the local
disco, thinking you scored because you kissed a
girl...choose to stand outside the church at Sunday
mass.

Choose Mayo.

Audioslaven

Good One Man!!

Hope we deliver SAM on the 17th, Wow that will be something if we do!!

yop

Good one Culchie.

barry75

Brilliant:)

Carcharodon

choose reality

choose kerry, to win

sideshowdave

well said carcharodon,

at least someone is in a right state of mind around here,

Culchie

sideshowdave wrote:

well said carcharodon,

at least someone is in a right state of mind around here,

Shure, I reckon Kerry will win by a mile as well:)

UnitedIrishman

Nice job Culchie.

Aido c

My heart is and will always be with Kerry,

but at the bookies I will.... . .. . Choose Mayo

DaBreno

*sniffle* I love my County!

Aido c

Choose Kerry… . .

Choose what were kindly described as F%*@in Animals for supporters, choose a record that is the best in the country and still never good enough. Choose players who are the best in the world, and still are not good enough.

Choose half the team speaking in a language that half the country cannot understand. Choose the rest of the team speaking with accents that nobody can….

Choose a jersey that makes our women look fat(er). But has colors that strike fear into all the men of this fair land.

Choose some of the greatest views and sights in Gods great earth…... clogged with American tourists each summer. Choose a proliferation of illegal dumping and one off housing in the hope they will go away. Choose winter gales that would suggest God is dead.

Choose God retaliating by giving us neighbors to the east, in red jerseys, with an attitude, arrogance and accent that is as painful as D.I.Y. vasectomy.

Choose a proliferation of festivals starting with the rose of Tralee and ending with ‘Cailín Álainn’ in Lixnaw, chose nobody crying stop. Choose a winner to Cailín Álainn? Choose to try keep down your lunch instead.

Choose a dozen clubs from the north who stubbornly refuse to quit trying to play hurling… failing too… until what’s left resembles Ireland’s last blood sport.

Choose skinny little boys from the south getting handed 13 & 15 shirts for an All Ireland Senior football finals, when they look like they should just get a cup of soup.

Choose the ascendancy of these players over the years by overprotective refereeing, leading to a natural cull of our taller, bigger - hard men. Choose a half decade of getting mangled in our own northern war of aggression, buried in blanket defenses.

Until Jack, like Micko before him, in the times of the Bomber, chose to look north and found our northern star and Lixnaw hurlers who would man mark you into the grave. Choose to end the northern war of aggression by routing Armagh in Croke Park.

Choose Kerry - be in HQ when one of the skinny little boys gets handed Sam.