Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Surf Wear 37

When Ben Hannant appeared at his door this week to reveal he had played Origin while suffering from swine flu, he wasn’t only sending shivers down the spines of league fans. A lot of surfers would have felt a pang of anxiety too. Not because of any fears about the Origin series, but because Hannant was photographed in a hoodie with a surf label emblazoned across the chest.

There’s nothing wrong, per se, with footy boof heads pulling on a surf label. Australian surf companies have clad most of the free world in reasonably stylish, affordable clothes, and for footy players to feel part of this phenomenon is perfectly understandable.

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Marts says:

Fred Fred Fred - you are surfing on the wrong wave there dude. I normally give an article three or four sentences and if I don’t like - I ditch it. But yours was akin to watching a train wreck and I couldn’t stop reading. Taking pot shots at decent citizens (you obviously have no idea of the quality of character that Ben Hannant has) about something as trivial as fashion - flawed arguments and pettiness has done you no favours at all.

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